Form above function personified: The new Mercedes CLA

The gorgeous Shooting Brake straddles the ground between estate car and coupé

The new Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake is a heart-before-head kind of car
The new Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake is a heart-before-head kind of car

Once upon a time in the motoring world, it was clearly understood that ‘coupé’ meant a sporty looking two-door car. Those days are far behind us, as the car manufacturers bandy the term about willy-nilly to describe seemingly any genre of vehicle they’d like to ...