The Mercedes Shooting Brake concept will go on show at the Beijing motor show and here is a full gallery of the concept and a video. We had orginally expected the shooting brake to be a coupé style concept, but in reality the car introduces the new Mercedes CLS Station Wagon. The CLS Station Wagon is a model that Mercedes has on more than one occasion announced it would plan, and we should see a production version towards the end of 2011. See the Shooting Brake video after the jump for all the details on the concept.

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The Mercedes F800 Style Concept Car will appear at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show as the company prepares its coupe-sedan design for the replacement of the Mercedes CLC. I have to admit that I wasn’t expecting something quite so sexy from Mercedes, but the F800 Style is not just about what its name suggests.

The concept car is 474 cm long which suggests it might adopt the A-Class and B-Class platform, which will also be used on the Mercedes SUV range, previously known as BLK. The F800 Style is also 194 cm wide, 144 cm high and has a boot capacity of 440 litres. The car is equipped with a traditional hybrid drivetrain with a V6 engine with 300 hp and an electric motor with lithium ion batteries for another 109 hp.

Emissions measure 68 grams of CO2 per kilometre and fuel consumption is just 2.9 litres for every 100 km. The F800 Style has plenty of speed though, accelerating to 100 km/hr in 4.7 seconds with a top speed of 250 km/hr. It has a seven-speed, semi-automatic transmission also used on the Mercedes S-Class hybrid, and can also be equipped with a combustion fuel cell system for zero emissions.

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The Mercedes CLS Rising Car sculpture seen in these pics from Detroit, will be shown as a real concept car at the 2010 Geneva motor show in March. The new CLS sedan design will be previewed, with the car itself debuting at the end of this year.

It will be the first Mercedes to show design boss Gordon Wagener’s new design philosophy, which will also include a new identity for the Mercedes front end, based on the grille of the 300 SL. In the future there will be less variation across the range in the front end, which will become more corporate.

As already suspected, the new CLS will include a shooting brake style, rather than a station wagon model, as some rumours have suggested. Wagener is aiming for the “most beautiful cars in the world” and has said that a shooting brake would be the most stunning car in its sector, we should think in direct competition with Audi’s sportback style.

Source | Autocar

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According to reports, the Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake will arrive in 2011 as the production version of the Mercedes Fascination concept car, presented at the Paris motor show back in 2008. The three door coupé will appear alongside the four-door coupé, which will be officially presented at the 2010 Paris motor show.

While Mercedes is unlikely to use the name ’shooting brake’, the style could also produce a five-door version which would substitute the R-Class in the future. An AMG shooting brake version seems almost guaranteed, as Mercedes uses the four-door model to compete with cars such as the Porsche Panamera and Audi A7.

Source | Autointernationaal

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These spy shots of the Mercedes SLS come from testing at the Nurburgring. The new version is unlikely to appear before 2011, after a facelift last year has been the only touch-up since 2004. It is a four-seater coupe with smooth lines and a set of fast engines, and we’re all hoping for an AMG version, too at some stage, maybe in 2012.

The CLS engine will probably feature a V8 or V12, but it’s hard to know at this stage and will probably come down to Mercedes balancing performance with a few ecological responsibilities. Whatever the case, it’s good to go for testing and so we expect more spy shots and a few teasers next year perhaps.

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The new Jaguar XJ has been seen testing, in full BMW-style camouflage. The BMW style is not limited merely to the disguise, but can also be found at the front in the double grill look of the vehicle.

It’s still difficult to form an idea of the overall look that the next XJ will eventually take on, although we can make our judgments come 2010 with the appearance of the sedan on the market.

Some time ago though, Jaguar design head Ian Callum revealed that he was enchanted by the lines of the Mercedes CLS, although he added that the new XJ would not be based on the latter, maintaining a more traditional sedan look.

We should see quite a close relationship in terms of style, however, with the smaller Jaguar XF. The more solid look certainly reflects Jaguar’s recent efforts, and we should see this organic “family feeling” grow further among Jaguar models.

Source | AutoWereld

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Mercedes-Benz is warming up for the 78th edition of the Geneva Motor Show: the brand is coming with a massive five world premieres: the all-new CLC, the facelifted CLS, SLK and SL, and the CL 500 4Matic, that features for the first time the extremely light all-wheel drive system on this model. You can find the complete press release after the jump.

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