Brawny engine twinned with classy looks; if only our German friends could return to type...
I’m always intrigued by stereotypes. Take the Germans. Now, I’m very fond of the Germans. I spend a lot of time in das Varterland and I like the way its people go about things. And contrary to popular belief, most of the ones I’ve met – and I’ve even dated a couple – don’t meet the dour stereotype at all. Generally speaking, I find our Teutonic brethren jolly funny and highly engaging company. Yet when it comes to cars, national stereotypes do tend to work.
These days of course, most German car makers are acting a bit like those corporate entities that insist their staff have ‘fun’. What they end up enacting is a kind of forced fun, which isn’t fun at all. Looking at some of the latest car designs from the big-hitting Germans, they seem so over the top I find myself wondering whether the top-down edict of ‘make it exciting’ has been derived from an algorithm, rather than the free-thinking, creative mind of a human being.
There’s nothing too outlandish about this 55. The only things that separate it from the lesser CLKs are a pair of barely brawny bumpers, extended side skirts, a set of rather attractive five-spoke AMG alloys and two oval tailpipes sticking out the back. I suppose if you want to be picky about it, those side skirts, with the odd twist two-thirds the way along, look a bit Ripspeed, but they hardly constitute gauche.
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