Mercedes-Benz is to reduce the offer of coupes, station wagons will eventually disappear completely

The Mercedes-Benz car company has an undeniably very wide range of models in its offer. We’ve already known since last year that he’s going to cut corners in it; at that time there was talk in particular that the single CLE class would replace a total of six existing cars. How far the cuts will go, however, we are only now learning from the American magazine Car and Driver.

The latter, with references to top managers of the German car company, states that only 14 body variants will survive out of a total of thirty-three that Mercedes-Benz offers today across Europe and the USA. And it is mainly station wagons and coupes or convertibles that are supposed to disappear.

Which ones are they? The bitten CLE class is supposed to replace the C, E and S class coupes and cabriolets, although some customers will certainly switch from the S class to the SL, which for the first time in the last generation has two emergency rear seats.

The end awaits the CLS class, allegedly in 2024, the sharper AMG GT 4 Door is due to end sometime in 2024 or 2025. But a new four-door coupe is due in 2026. The GLE and GLC classes in Coupé versions are to receive one more generation, but according to the magazine, it will also be the last.

The station wagon version of the C class is to end in Europe in 2028, two years later the station wagon of the E class is also to disappear. It is to be introduced in a new generation during this year, which will also receive a station wagon version, but it will be the last. The more elegant station wagon, referred to today as a somewhat inaccurate shooting brake, will end at Mercedes with the next generation of the CLA class, which is to be introduced in 2025.

“We don’t need station wagons and poorly selling two-door cars to lift our volumes. The most important elements of sustainable contemporary luxury in cars are space and time. These are our main priorities, not another body style, a model that works only in Europe or a last attempt to revive a dying segment,” the magazine quotes an unnamed member of the team responsible for Mercedes-Benz’s strategy.

So what can fans of the brand look forward to? In particular, more emphasis on AMG models and luxury Maybach derivatives. And also to a series of ultra-luxurious and, of course, ultra-expensive cars called Mythos, which the automaker announced last May. They are supposed to be even more luxurious and even more exclusive than Maybachs.