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Old 04-13-06, 01:45 PM
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Thumbs up Blue CLS55 AMG

Never seen this color on the CLS before. I only see Black and an occational White one, but I think this Blue is stunning. So much mod potential.





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Old 04-13-06, 01:51 PM
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Looks o.k. Too unclassy for the CLS. Looks like a toy, or a Honda...
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Old 04-13-06, 02:23 PM
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I think it looks real nice on the car. Is the door open on the last picture? I saw a pearl white one rolling and the body panels were really off, gaps were uneven between the front door and fender. That coupled with some nightmare stories on the MB boards... I'm still scratching my head as to what's going on with MB. Anyway, is it me or is the style of the CLS wearing off? I initially thought the styling would be timeless, but I'm finding it not as attractive to me.
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Whoa! Looks almost photoshopped. Looks nice.

T0ked, you saw a pearl white CLS? From what I can recall, Mercedes never offered any type of white paints with pearls in it. Or I could be wrong and I would like to see one!
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I am a sucker for blues like this.

I love it!
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Old 04-13-06, 02:57 PM
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Nice! Reminds me of the Yamaha R1 Race Blue
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Old 04-13-06, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by pocky
Whoa! Looks almost photoshopped. Looks nice.

T0ked, you saw a pearl white CLS? From what I can recall, Mercedes never offered any type of white paints with pearls in it. Or I could be wrong and I would like to see one!
Well, I think it looked pearl, but I know it was a white color. The white really made the uneven gaps show.
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Old 04-13-06, 03:06 PM
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I think the blue looks good but I like it better in silver or black
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Old 04-13-06, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by T0ked
I think it looks real nice on the car. Is the door open on the last picture? I saw a pearl white one rolling and the body panels were really off, gaps were uneven between the front door and fender. That coupled with some nightmare stories on the MB boards... I'm still scratching my head as to what's going on with MB. Anyway, is it me or is the style of the CLS wearing off? I initially thought the styling would be timeless, but I'm finding it not as attractive to me.
i saw a silver one at starbucks a few months back and the gap between the fender and the door was really bad.
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Old 04-13-06, 04:04 PM
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Love the color but not on the cls. German cars look best in silver, black, white, charcoal and maybe red. Of course this is my opinion.
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Old 04-13-06, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by reggiek
Love the color but not on the cls. German cars look best in silver, black, white, charcoal and maybe red. Of course this is my opinion.
I'll second that

Although blue is hard color to get to work on any luxury car... the C5 Z06 pulls it off, as well as the RSP MKIV Supra... the M3 handles blue nicely, but that's definate sports car material.


The blue just doesn't seem to work well with the chrome window trim... but that's just my two bits.

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Old 04-13-06, 10:01 PM
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i also think it's better if it's black or white or silver. just not as classy as it should be
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Old 04-13-06, 10:18 PM
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I see you like this type of blue on many cars huh ?

I tend to agree with the others with this one, the CLS looks the best to me in black, granite grey & barolo red, but doesn't work too well with this color IMHO, & this is a custom color too I think, not a standard color offered by MB
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i think a little bit bluer version of BMW's Carbon Black (the one with that hint of blueness to it) would do wonders for the CLS.
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Old 04-13-06, 10:43 PM
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The CLS comes in white Though "Alabaster White" isn't a pearl white.

I don't particularly like it in white though. My neighbor has a CLS500 in a graphite-type color... not exactly graphite but I can't really describe it. It's kinda like MB's answer to Flint Mica I suppose. I can't stop looking out the window when it's on the driveway
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