With the Mercedes-Benz Concept A Sedan at Auto Shanghai 2017 Mercedes-Benz is providing an outlook of the next generation of compact vehicles and a potential, new body type. The Concept A Sedan show car specifies the evolved Mercedes-Benz design language. Thanks to its purist, surface-focused design featuring reduced lines and gaps, the show car is hot and cool at the same time.
«Our Concept A Sedan shows, that the time of creases is over. With its perfect proportions and a sensual treatment of surfaces with reduced lines, it is the next milestone of Sensual Purity and has the potential to introduce a new design era», said Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Daimler AG. The Concept A Sedan has been designed with the proportions of a dynamic, coupé-like and simultaneously compact, premium sedan.
This aim is emphasized by the traditional three-box design featuring short overhangs, especially at the rear, as well as the slim greenhouse that has been offset towards the rear. Additional sedan characteristics are the relatively vertical C‑pillar, larger side windows and the higher beltline. The headlamps with their eyebrows as a typical feature of the brand as well as the striking grid structure on the inside guarantee a confident look, and a simultaneously high recognition value.
