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TheCarConnection.com's editors have driven several versions of the new Mercedes-Benz CL-Class in order to bring you their expert opinion here in this Bottom Line review. TheCarConnection.com has also researched road tests on the new Mercedes-Benz CL-Class to bring you some of the most useful information on how this luxury coupe measures up.
Likes:
- Simple, elegant instrument panel
- High-speed stability
- Comfortable, composed ride
- Tech features for every concern
- Multicontour seats provide optimum comfort and support
Dislikes:
- For its size, the interior feels small
- Challenging backseat entry/exit
- Screen-based interface needs simplifying
The 2010 Mercedes-Benz CL-Class offers subtle styling cues and bawdy performance to everyone-from the merely rich and famous to the extremely rich and famous. As in 2009, the CL-Class comes with a choice of one of four powertrains-two different V-8s or two different V-12s-harnessed to an automatic transmission and rear- or all-wheel drive. Carrying a base price of more than $110,000, the CL550 plays the poor country cousin to the truly exotic and rare $208,000 CL65 AMG.
It's a two-door with unparalleled road-covering capability, but the 2010 Benz CL-Class has a markedly anodyne style. The roofline's elegant but familiar; the CL's nose, a softly rounded collection of the usual Benz themes. And while the CL wore them first, the rear quarter lamps and panels resemble efforts far and wide, from Bentley to Acura. It's restrained exterior styling, for sure, but the CL's less arresting shape also means its suave good looks are apt to wear well in any season, for many seasons. The understated exterior may be a disappointment to some, but the interior of the 2010 Mercedes-Benz CL-Class is sure to impress. It takes a minimalist approach-with a monolithic center stack of controls paneled in behind a sheath of burled walnuts and thin lines of shiny dash switches. It's simple and uncluttered-something straight out of the German edition of Architectural Digest.
