Report: Mercedes-Benz developing E Superlight as its new carbon fiber halo sedan (Autoblog)

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

Automakers need halo cars. They bring people into the showroom and demonstrate
just what their engineers can do. Typically those range-topping vehicles come
in the form of sports cars – think Audi R8, Dodge Viper, Lexus LFA et al – but
Mercedes-Benz is reportedly taking another direction. That’s because these
exotic supercars tend to sell in small numbers (almost by definition), while -
for Mercedes-Benz – mid-size luxury sedans like the E-Class sell in much
bigger numbers. As such, the Silver Star automaker is planning on making its
next halo car a four-door sedan (of sorts).

A couple months ago, we brought you initial word of Daimler’s plans to make a
super-lightweight, carbon-fiber E-Class, and now further details have found
their way into the bloggosphere. Dubbed the E Superlight, the sedan is tipped
to share its footprint with the E-Class, its size with the CLS and its price
with the S-Class. For that, buyers would get a state-of-the-art sedan made
from carbon fiber sitting at the very cutting edge of what Stuttgart’s finest
are capable of achieving.

That’s right, the E Superlight isn’t a mere concept car: reports from overseas
indicate …

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