German Car Zone

An M5, a CTS-V and an AMG CLS63 join a box-fresh 510-hp XF for one helluva drive in California

Dwarves, lesbians and brain-scrambling identity confusion: that's what Mulholland Drive meant to David Lynch, cinema's greatest contemporary dream-weaver. His 2001 film of the same name is a surrealist Tinseltown fable — crazy, sexy, complex. You get a panoramic view of Los Angeles from up here on Mulholland, and it's clear that all human life is up to all sorts of things down there. No wonder Lynch loves the place.

Luckily, our mission is less oblique. While L.A. shimmers in the distance, the foreground stars are familiar enough, mostly sedan car, shapes. BMW, Cadillac, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz. Not much vaporous mystery there. Between them, these guys have produced some of the best cars of the 20th century, and a handful of borderline 21st-century classics, too. Except that, like the misfits and psychos in David Lynch's films, there's way more to this lot than meets the eye.

Power, mainly. In excess of 2,000 hp, in fact, which is an incredible amount for cars of any shape to summon up between them, never mind four cars that have four doors, a boot and riff off the most controversial silhouette in the business. The last time I came to California on a big road trip, we had four full-on late-'90s supercars, two of them were mid-engined, one was packing an 8.0-liter V10 and none were anywhere near as powerful as the least powerful car we have here tonight. These days, you need 500 hp just to get in through the door. Forty years after the muscle car first appeared, we've brought the best modern versions back to their spiritual home.




























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I'd go with the CLS63 as my first choice and followed by the XFR second. The M5 is a great car but something about it isn't right when compared to the CLS63 and the XFR. It's just not as dynamic looking, IMO.

Wow, all superb looking machines. I quite like they took the CLS instead of the E, although a few hundred pounds heavier well worth the sacrifice IMO.

All of them look fabulous!! But the Jag XFR and the Merc CLS 63 - they are just mind-blowing!!!

All awesome cars but i would easily take a CLS 63 AMG.
The car still looks so new and fresh infact i really dont think this car even needs to be replaced as yet i really hope that when MB replace it they dont mess up for me this car will become a classic.AWESOME car...

CLS63 for me please

^6th that..lol

^ Warning, Mercedes Badge Whores ahead.

I would take all of them. It's very hard to choose

I am to broken hearted to make a choice between my lovers, the CTS-V and M5.
The other two, CLS and XF can quite frankly leave I don't want them in my life any longer.