The 2004 Mercedes CLS has put journalists at a standstill. No one could understand what the type of body was, and the manufacturer had insisted that it was a compartment, just with four doors.
Indeed, the doors are twice as many as they should be. And the car is called, because it is designed with the use of design and design solutions to the cars in the coupe.
The first four-door coupe is the American LaFayette Four Door Coupe Touring Type 1921
Everyone was used to believe that the first four-door compartment was a Mercedes CLS. But it is not. The first four-door coupe is the United States LaFayette Four Door Coupe Touring Type 1921. The car had 4 doors and the proportions characteristic of the period. The model was produced only a few years, and the brand itself lasted slightly more.
In 1958, there was a Rover P5 car. In 1962, the second generation of the model debuted, having two variants of the body: standard and with an undervalue roof. The second was a typical four-door compartment. The car was successful and the fourth generation car was even present in Queen Elizabeth's garage.
Back to the concept of a four-door compartment only in the 21st century, the first Mercedes CLS became the first to be sold in 2004. Four years later, Volkswagen supported the idea and presented the Passat CC model.