Video: Gordon Wagener on the Mercedes Concept Style Coupe

Mercedes-Benz has released a short video in which Head of Design Gordon Wagener presents the new Concept Style Coupe.

The Concept Style Coupe, officially introduced at the recent Beijing auto show, was first seen at the Avant/Garde festival prior to Beijing in an unusual move for the brand.

"In this case we thought the car was so progressive and avant-gardistic that we decided to put it here into this art show," says Wagener. "We took the idea from the CLS four-door coupe which is basically a car that looks like a design sketch and brought it down into that segment, so the car is very over-exaggerated in its proportions."

Wagener claims that the car is very close to production, and is probably 95 per cent what we expect to see next year.

By Rufus Thompson