The engineers cut the floor out of the CLS and plopped in the pack.

工程师们从CLS上切地板, 然后把车放包装里。

Following three months of work, Tesla had in effect built an all-electric Mercedes CLS.

经过三个月的工作, 特拉实际上已经制造了一辆全电动梅赛德-CLS。

As von Holzhausen began sketching the outside of the Model S, the Tesla engineers had started up a project to build another electric CLS.

当 von Holzhausen 始绘制 Model S 外观草图时, 特拉的工程师们已经始着手打造另一款电动 CLS。

To perform these joyrides-cum-tests in relative secrecy, the engineers had to weld the tips of the exhaust pipes back onto the car to make it look like any other CLS.

为了在相对保密的情况这些驾驶乐趣测试, 工程师们不得不将排气管的末端焊接到汽车上, 使其看起来像任何其他CLS。

It still had the base structure of a Mercedes CLS, although no one in the press knew that, and some of the body panels and the hood were stuck to the frame with magnets.

它仍然具有梅赛德CLS的基本结构, 尽管媒体中没有人知道这一点, 并且一些车身面板和引擎盖用磁铁粘在车架上。

In the end, they preferred the styling on the CLS and settled on it as their baseline for thinking about the Model S. After purchasing a CLS, Tesla's engineers tore it apart.

最终, 他们选择了 CLS 的造型, 并将其作为考虑 Model S 的基准, 在购买 CLS 后, 特拉的工程师将其拆解。