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Now, two-door sedans are a reality. Pretty much every BMW 3-Series two-door still qualifies as a sedan, by EPA measurements. But anything with four doors is plainly a sedan. Right?
Not by the yardstick applied by a growing number of car companies, who can identify those of you who still want four-door practicality but the sleeker silhouette of a vehicle with fewer orifices. Audi’s new A6 is one of these animals, but possibly the most hotly intent on selling the idea is Mercedes-Benz via its new CLS.
The CLS, Mercedes vows, offers up the “elegance and dynamism of a coupé with the comfort and practicality of a saloon.” Translation: you don’t lose the room or trunk space of a typical four-door, even though the body is styled to look more like a coupe. And in the case of the CLS, which shares roughly 35 percent of its body structure with the conventional E-Class four-door, most of the functional goodness is retained beneath an intriguing new skin.
The very
