The Independent have published a review of the Mercedes E-class coupé. 'The saloon version of the latest E-class was launched just a couple of months ago, and the coupé shares the saloon's mechanical make-up and its onslaught of electronic safety and convenience cleverness. It also shares many of its styling features, such as the paired-parallelogram headlights, the curve of the waistline, the slanting rear lights and, most controversially, the flared-out flourish over the rear wheel arch meant to evoke Mercedes-Benzes of the 1950s and early 1960s before straight-lined austerity took over. Viewed in the context of a 1959 "fin-tail" Benz, then, the new E-classes are just reinterpreting those styling details for a modern age. If so, maybe the new Benzes will have lasting aesthetic qualities after all. Who's to know, apart from all of us in 10 years' time?'
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