Sports Gasp. We by no manner saw this one coming. Following the introduction of the Cabriolet version of the Mercedes-Benz CLE, the car designed to change two-door variations of both the C-Class and E-Class, and the excessive-performance AMG CLE Fifty three version of the coupe, the powertrain of the latter has been dropped into the body of the extinct to construct this: the CLE Fifty three Cabriolet.
Mercedes-AMG CLE Fifty three Cabriolet – inner
The powertrain is unchanged from the AMG coupe: a 3.0-litre turbocharged and mildly hybridised straight-six powers all four wheels thru a 9-walk automatic gearbox. All in, it’s producing 443bhp and 413lb feet of torque. That’ll procure the CLE Fifty three Cabriolet to 62mph in 4.4 seconds. Spec the Pro Efficiency Kit, and you procure access to the Hobble Originate up originate alter machine, which drops that to 4.2 seconds – 0.1 of a 2nd slower than the tin-high. Maximum walk is identical 155mph.
Mercedes-AMG CLE Fifty three Cabriolet – rear detail
The Cabrio restful has the same suite of tech as its coupe sibling, too. This involves a variable four-wheel drive machine with a race with the drift mode (in a four-seater convertible!), adaptive AMG Dawdle Care for an eye fixed on suspension, and regular rear-axle guidance. Obviously, it also gets the coupe’s swole arches, too.
Plunge-high-particular functions encompass the most modern iteration of Merc’s long-operating Airscarf machine that blows warm air across the neck of entrance-seat occupants, and the Aircap machine of wind deflectors, which we chanced on isn’t rather as effective as Mercedes says. The fully insulated fabric roof could perhaps perhaps simply moreover be specced in black, purple or gray.
Mercedes-AMG CLE Fifty three Cabriolet – rear
Mercedes hasn’t launched costs for the CLE Fifty three Cabriolet yet, however reckon on a staunch few huge higher than the £73,075 that the coupe begins at. We chanced on the regular CLE Cabriolet to be an exceptionally good wafter, whereas the AMG coupe didn’t rather are residing as much as its sporty badges. Could this be the upper of both worlds?