When the Mercedes CLS launched we predicted that BMW would produce a 4-door 6-series.
Here are the details from AutoBild:
Translated from German by AltaVista translate:
Mercedes CLS BMW met exactly there, where it does pain. In the core authority. There, where dynamics, Innovation and radiant emittance the mark picture determine. The native of Munich could have relatively rapidly countered - nevertheless they decided to wait. Why? Because the resonance seemed with difficulty calculable on a four-door Coupé. And because it with X6, Super Touring, new 1er-Varianten as well as the regular successors anyway well working at full capacity were.
Already six months before the start Mercedes of the CLS had made the BMW strategists for the executive committee of three suggestions: • That as a CLS killer designated Viertürer was internally a 7er-Coupé with same wheel base and identical length. • That as 6er-Shooting-Brake listed 2+2-Sitzer could internally have booked despite continuous wheel base more place in the rear and a variable Gepäckabteil for itself. • That as LC5 well-known draft was internally a 6er-Limousine with four doors, four seats and a coupéähnlichen silhouette.
After a long art break the highest guidance circle decided, to give only at the beginning of of 2006 a concrete feasibility study for the LC5 in order. The car, that F14 is called now, Mercedes of the CLS is to come to unconfirmed information in September 2011 on the market - almost at the same time with the second generation. As basis the long and heavy 7er-Reihe does not serve, separate the more compact 6er, its new edition as Coupé (F12) and as Cabrio (F13) for beginningIn the middle of 2011 is scheduled.
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