Mercedes-Benz C 180 Coupe review: Sporting a baby bump

Singapore

LITTLE tykes leave me cold (yes, including yours), but I've always been a sucker for a baby Benz. When you take the elegance that Mercedes has to offer and distil it into something compact, it only seems to intensify the appeal - much the same way that I would find a child in a tuxedo adorable if I were capable of finding children adorable.

Hence, my affection for the C-Class, which is no longer the smallest car with a three-pointed star, but is arguably the most compact Mercedes that still feels like a Mercedes.

And when you take a C-Class and lop off two doors, the result is something that makes me want to fan myself with both hands.

There's something irresistible about Mercedes coupes, and the sales numbers seem to bear this out. In the first 11 months of last year, nearly 100 Mercedes-Benz coupes and cabriolets we…