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"Call it the best of both worlds, or call it an identity crisis, but a hard-top cabrio like the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class is never quite sure if it&amp;#039;s a coupe or a convertible. AMG had one answer when it welded the roof on the SL65 Black Series, but a group of students in Italy have another idea. Instead of either a coupe or convertible, they want to make it into a shooting brake. While Mercedes applied the term to the CLS wagon, the CoupeTorino 2013 project is a shooting brake in the classic definition of the term: a coupe with an elongated roof. The design was penned by six design students under the watchful eye of Italian coachbuilder StudioTorino and Mercedes concept designer Steffen Koehl. The resulting 1/4-scale model was presented at Benz&amp;#039;s design studio on Lake Como, and while it may look a little oddball, it&amp;#039;s no more so than the BMW Z4 Coupe or Ferrari FF. And with German automakers constantly seeking new bodystyles to spin off, and the heft of its folding roof pushing the SL roadster&amp;#039;s weight to SUV territory, the prospect of Stuttgart approving the design (or some derivative thereof ) wouldn&amp;#039;t be entirely outside the realm of possibility. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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