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"Just as the Mercedes-Benz S Class has always been the top of the heap, the S-Class Coupe is the ne plus ultra of S-Classes. That&amp;#039;s French for &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s the awesomest German two-door.&amp;quot; The long-nose, short deck S-Class Coupe is all dash-to-axle perfection, with a tight little roof set way back from the front wheels and clipped rear. The success of the new S-Class Coupe styling is more than just proportion, too. Joachim Schmidt, who sits on the Mercedes Sales and Marketing board, noted that with suh a top-of-the-heap car &amp;quot;designers take advantage of their additional freedom and thus create an automotive masterpiece.&amp;quot;  Of course, Schmidt is expected to speak well about his own team, but the S-Class Coupe crouches just right on its 21&amp;quot; wheels, and the long 116&amp;quot; wheelbase is pure luxury in and of itself. The size of the S-Class Coupe Concept might not translate fully from pictures alone. At 200 inches long, this new two-door is around the same size as the Chevrolet Caprice coupe that roamed the earth starting in the late 1970s.  The size may be a reminder of the age of baroque &amp;quot;personal luxury&amp;quot; coupes, but this car is no throwback. Modern Mercedes-Benz styling touches like the descending line starting at the corner of the headlamp clusters and continues through the doors and a complementary rising line in the lower rockers clearly say &amp;quot;Mercedes&amp;quot; without shouting it. The Mercedes emblem centers the front end, and the grille pattern emphasizes the tri-star with a design that ripples like water. Aside the grille sit the full-LED headlights with running lights arrayed in &amp;quot;a semicircular counter-swish,&amp;quot; which is press-release-ese for &amp;quot;arc.&amp;quot;  With looks that are lithe and muscular, a lusty powertrain is a must, otherwise the promise of the looks is unfulfilled by the reality of the engine. How&amp;#039;s a turbocharged V8 sound? In Mercedes parlance, that&amp;#039;s a V8 Biturbo, and it bangs up 455 hp from 4.7 liters with 516 ft-lbs of torque, but Mercedes is playing down the heavy breathing parts, preferring instead to highlight the driver aid technology in this concept.  With a stereo camera, radar and ulrasonic sensors, the Intelligent Drive goodies, such as &amp;quot;6DVision&amp;quot; almost make it possible to close your eyes and let the car do the driving. The suspension uses the stereo camera to scan the road, too, and then the fantastically-named &amp;quot;Magic Body Control&amp;quot; tweaks the suspension.  What all that bits-and-bytes wizardry means is a more serene and confident experience when you&amp;#039;re tucked behind the wheel. The cabin of the concept is finished in white, and while it looks fantastic, it&amp;#039;d be hilariously difficult to live with. The big bank of LCD screens cribbed from the S-Class sedan are a lock for production, and they stand out more prominently here, and you can also expect that those jet-intke HVAC vents will be there in the showroom, too. Mercedes says the sweep of the dashboard is supposed to be &amp;quot;reminiscent of a whale fluke just before it re-enters the water.&amp;quot; Okay, maybe, but the upholstery pattern of the seats seems whale-y, too, so it all works. Concept stuff like aluminum door panels milled to mimic the geographic contours of rock formations in Utah are concept-car fantastical and likely to be rendered in more practical materials when the production car shows up.  With sharpened, evocative styling, tech out the wazoo and enough power to cash those checks, the new S-Class Coupe Concept is what you&amp;#039;d expect from Mercedes. When the subject is the uber-panzer of the line, meeting expectations is no bad thing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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