Weekly Recap: Mercedes continues the pseudo-coupe craze with AMG-tuned CUV
 

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<p>But as BMW's X6 has demonstrated, sport sells in in the crossover segment, and Mercedes is giving the people what they want.</p>
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<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/bmw/">BMW</a> proved there is a market for crossover utility vehicles designed to look like coupes - as much as a vehicle with four doors and noticeable ground clearance can look like a coupe, anyway. Now comes the reply from <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/mercedes-benz/">Mercedes-Benz</a>: the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/09/mercedes-gle-coupe-official/">GLE Coupe</a>.<br />
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The rakish crossover is a harbinger of things to come from Mercedes, as it begins the company's transition to a new nomenclature and marks the debut of the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/11/27/mercedes-confirms-first-amg-sport-models-for-detroit/">AMG Sport line</a>. It also continues the recent coupe craze. Designers from many automakers, like <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/nissan/">Nissan</a> and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/volkswagen/">Volkswagen</a>, have increasingly turned to swoopy, dramatic styling to make utility vehicles and sedans seem more desirable.<br />
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By revealing the GLE 450 AMG Sport model first, Mercedes is clearly hoping to cast the GLE Coupe as a sportier, lifestyle-oriented alternative in its lineup of beefy crossovers and SUVs. Mercedes used the word "sport," or a variation of it, 53 times in its press release, so uh yeah, it's sporty.<p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/13/weekly-recap-mercedes-continues-the-pseudo-coupe-craze-with-amg/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Weekly Recap: Mercedes continues the pseudo-coupe craze with AMG-tuned CUV</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/13/weekly-recap-mercedes-continues-the-pseudo-coupe-craze-with-amg/">Weekly Recap: Mercedes continues the pseudo-coupe craze with AMG-tuned CUV</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:01:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/13/weekly-recap-mercedes-continues-the-pseudo-coupe-craze-with-amg/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/21115450/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/13/weekly-recap-mercedes-continues-the-pseudo-coupe-craze-with-amg/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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