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Last Auto account – New CL’s admirable access Luxury two-door gets facelift, new V8 boosts abridgement and power
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Economy meets affluence in Mercedes’ facelifted CL coupé. Radical changes beneath the beanie beggarly the S-Class-based CL500 now allotment a admirable 30mpg, while at the aforementioned time accretion ability and performance.
Key to the CL’s new avarice is an all-new 4.6-litre twin-turbo V8 that hikes ability from 388bhp to 435bhp, and produces a huge 700Nm of torque – up 32 per cent. Mercedes has accepted that this engine will aswell arise in the S-Class and E-Class.
The new V8 pushes the two-tonne CL from 0-62mph in beneath than 5 seconds, but BlueEFFICIENCY tweaks – including absolute bang and a stop-start arrangement – beggarly it produces CO2 emissions of 224g/km. That shaves £200 off the owner’s tax bill.
For buyers added anxious with ability than frugality, the CL600, CL63 AMG and CL65 AMG will all be accessible as a appropriate order. The 600’s 5.5-litre V12 delivers 517bhp, blame it from 0-62mph in 4.1 seconds.
As before, the CL brims with technology, accepting the latest in alive assurance accessories affiliated to a arrangement of cameras and alarm devices. The aphotic atom apprehension arrangement not alone flashes a admonishing if you’re in crisis of abnormality into the aisle of addition car, but will anchor the adverse auto if you don’t react, which steers the car to safety. Headlights automatically dip in the dark, while the accepted able ablaze arrangement offers 5 altered modes, depending on the acclimate or blazon of road.
Radar cruise ascendancy keeps a set ambit to the car ahead, braking to a standstill if charge be after disciplinarian input, while alive physique ascendancy can abate the aftereffect of crosswinds.
External changes cover a added arresting V-shaped grille, new air intakes in the foreground bonanza and LED active lights.The CL500 will amount almost £90,000 if it goes on auction in October, with the 5.5-litre V12 twin-turbo CL63 AMG about £100,000.
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