As soon as you mention the words “German Sports Saloon”, it is rather inevitable that three particular car manufacturers jump into your head. If you have even a cursory knowledge of cars you will automatically be thinking about Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It is a common held belief that Germany manufacture the best sports saloons in the world, but when faced with the choice of picking one of the three high and mighty exponents of the Germanic Automotive industry, which one should you pick?
This is not an easy question to answer, as there are models which weigh in very heavily in one category, but don’t do so well in the others. For example, the Audi R8 is the closest you can realistically come to an everyday supercar, but you still couldn’t do the school run in it. Likewise the BMW 3 Series has outsold the Ford Mondeo in Britain, which is a huge achievement, but you still wouldn’t ever dare call it ‘exciting’.
The only manufacturer of the three who seem to consistently engineer cars that surpass the vast majority of the competition in all stakes appears to be Mercedes-Benz. From A Class to the mercurial SLK, the Merc is a worthy adversary in every class it enters.
Having driven a Used Mercedes-Benz CL, as well as the competing Audi and BMW models, it is clear that of the trinity of German prestige sport saloon manufacturers, there can only be one true winner and that is Mercedes-Benz every single time.
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Automotive November 6th 2009
