Its because these cars were designed a few years ago. Current e-classes have the same color options for ambient lighting.

Also, if set your home address as a favorite, all you have to do is hit the star button, then click it and that's it. really simple

 

Great trick. Thanks!

 

for $11 usd and about an hour or so of installation... i bought "5050" rgb led lighting from aliexpress dot com and installed ambient lighting in the footwells and under the front seat (front and back)... to illuminate the footwells... there are 16 different colors and is super easy to do... there is a remote control i keep in the console, but it remembers your settings when you turn it off... (i don't change the colors very often) so you do not have to keep re-adjusting it everytime you turn them on... it adds a classy but subtle style when driving at night...

i'm not a big fan of the illuminated star, but i considered trying a few led's to backlight behind the grill... a faint glow behind the awesome grill (top & bottom) may look fantastic without appearing cheesy... i'll try it and see how it looks...

 

This happened to me yesterday. I was really annoyed by it, then I figured using the windshield washer. Viola! Fixed. I guess it just needs something slippery.

 

+1

 

I got a new dislike on my car:

-the darn gear shifter.

why the hell did they need to have the gear lever on the steering column.........

I have 3 issues with this:

1) i'm too used to having my right hand resting on a shifter in the middle of the car.........now I always accidentally get on the touchpad and change things without even knowing......
2) my infiniti had the wiper blade control on the right side, just where the gear shifter is on my current benz. the first week of ownership was a nightmare. it rained the whole week, and i'm used to just turn the lever to wipe once. now guess what happened when I did that on my benz while on the highway? I changed gear to neutral LOL. I was like WTF when I pressed on the gas and car wouldn't go.
3)when going to the auto car wash...............almost no one knows how to put the car into neutral. Even I had trouble at the beginning. very un-necessary way to put car on neutral. they could have made it 100x simpler by just making it mechanical like 70's and 80's cars.

besides that.......I still love when I open the door and get on it everyday after work. best part of my day

 

LOL...this is the first car I actually have to think about when using the automatic car wash! Hmmm, oh yea, be in neutral, turn off windshield wipers, turn off parking sensors

 

But turn on the 360 camera! It's amazing...water everywhere yet the little car in the picture stays totally dry!

 

And maybe fold in the mirrors too? Also, the cabin air intake filter seems well protected, but the owner's manual still recommends putting the ventilation on Recirculate. (Don't worry about forgetting to reset it to Normal. After 10 minutes, the ventilation will reset by itself. Your German Grandfather Gottlieb is always taking care of you!)

 

Yikes! I forgot about folding the mirrors!

 

Yup I also agree with the gear shifter placement. I keep switching between driving my car and my wife's X5 and on her car, the right column controls the windshield wipers. To activate the automatic windshield wipers, I have to press the middle button on the column. A few times I forgot I was driving the Mercedes and when it started raining, I pressed the button on the right column, which obviously is the park! Luckily it has a safety option that prevents the car from going to park when the car is moving fast. Scared me though haha!

Other things I don't like:
- the Command system screen is a joke compared to the F15 X5 iDrive screen
- if I'm in S+ and I turn off the car, I wish it would stay in the last setting I had
- Park Assist has yet to work properly. I saw some videos that park assist can reverse into parking spots, however it can only do parallel parking. Maybe it's not available in Canada??? I haven't tried park assist to parallel park yet
- I wish they had more colour options for the ambient lighting...I would have loved that deep blue or red found in the S class.
- would have preferred a digital display for the driver, like the one in the S and E class.

 

Mercedes needed the space on the center console for the touchpad. The needs of the mature markets of Europe and the Western Hemisphere are no longer a priority. The expanding markets are in Asia. Asian customers need the touchpad to input Asian characters-not just Chinese, but also Japanese and Indonesian characters.

Switching patterns of control can indeed lead to dangerous situations. When I took European delivery of my W203 C280 in Sept. 2006, it was the first automatic transmission car I had owned. I had driven many automatic transmission rental cars, including in the Stuttgart neighborhood where my wife and I were staying. I had been there many times, so I was familiar with every street, including a notorious tunnel in the area. (The Heslacher Tunnel, for those of you who have been there.) On the 2nd full day that I had the W203, I came out of that tunnel at about 40 mph. I was ready for the road first dipping and then rising steeply and curving to the left, almost like a roller coaster. (German limited access highways can be just as hilly and curving as two-lane roads.) I was not ready for the large bulk carrier 18-wheeler that was just starting up the hill at about 20 mph. But there was no other traffic, so all I had to do was pull into the left lane and pass him.

However, my previous car would have required a down-shift to make the hill. My instincts took over, and I tried to down-shift the automatic transmission as if it were a manual! All I succeeded in doing was shifting into neutral, and I had no idea how to get back into gear while in motion. I had visions of grinding the gears, if I just shifted into Drive. At this point, my mind was made up for me, as another car came out of the tunnel behind me. He was flying, but, fortunately, almost all German drivers are very good drivers. (The others cannot pass the test.) Also, I had done one thing right. I already had my flashers on. I had previously checked out the location of my hazard flashers, so I could immediately stab my flashers as soon as I had a problem. The flashers of the bulk carrier were also on. Therefore, the German driver had what he needed to immediately analyze the situation. He simply swerved into the left lane and accelerated up the hill. I had to come a complete stop behind the bulk carrier, re-start the engine (which I had somehow shut down), and pull out into the left lane to pass.

(My W205 reversed the positions of the multi-function stalk for the lights and wipers and the stalk for the cruise control controls. After 14 months, I am still making bogus turn signals when I mean to adjust the set speed of the cruise control.)

 

I don't like the fact that I can unlock the trunk opener button on the back without a key fob. It's not secure unless you lock it through the glove box

 

i hate the eco auto start stop "feature"

 

I fixed that problem. You can read about it here:

https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...em-solved.html

 

Honestly Lexus is almost as expensive, and they are still running an ancient 3.5L v6 that hasn't been updated in 11 years.

An IS350 is barely competitive with say 328i which it costs more than (a 328i will beat it in a straight line because that engine is so ancient) so its actually overpriced for what you get. Not to mention the interior isn't as nice as the germans (c'mon plastic inside door handles.... its the little things really.

Sure japanese reliability, but thats because they are running 10 year old engines.

Don't get me started on the Q50. Its a car running a platform that came out in 2004 the Fm and even the new Q60 is still on it (wheel base , is the same, exact thing carlos ghosn is getting his moneys worth because most people don't have the ability to know he's giving them stale bread and calling it fresh). I had a G35 coupe when it came out and it is basically the same car still other than the 3.7L VQ engine is so overbored that its raspy and actually sounds worse. The interior has slightly improved but its still is very plasticky and also plastic door handles etc. I mean sit in a new W205 or a B9 A4 and compare and its like night and day. Not to mention the steering feel on the Q50 is terrible.

The only Q50 that is remotely competitive with its mercedes equivalent (the new 2.0t is running a C250 engine, the older 3.7 V6 is running an ancient engine etc) is the Q50 red sport AWD and its maybe almost competitive with a C450. except its slower. and it still has the worse interior. and their totally digital steering is weird and has 0 feel. and a Q50 red sport AWD costs... what $2k less than a c450. And it even gets worse gas milage. So you just saved $2k to get a worse product , thats not really value.

I have owned japanese cars and german ones. Maybe the germans cost a bit more. but you are getting all the little things. for 5-10% more, if you are going to buy something luxurious you might as well get the one that is actually special because that is what luxury is. paying more for better, is not really a bad value. and if you are bothering why not. I mean if sirloin is $10 and ribeye is $13 , the $13 is a better value.

 

Sentences that begin with "No leather in a $60,000 car?" should end with "...and that's one of the reasons I didn't buy it." If you bought it anyway and are now bitterly disappointed, blame whoever it was that held the gun to your head and made you sign the loan papers.

 

Mike5215 is right; what is standard matters only if you cannot reach the price of the car (equipped as you insist on having it equipped). The reason you cannot afford the car is not because a certain feature is standard or not, but because the sum of all the prices (including the base price) is too high. It's just like when you get home after visiting three or four dealerships and then sit down to compare the real-world prices you were actually to negotiate.

When I bought my first Mercedes (the W203 2007 C280 4matic shown in my Profile picture), I was in this position. I crossed-shopped BMW, Audi, and Lexus. My sentimental favorite marque was BMW, not Mercedes. (I learned to drive on a friend's BMW 1800TI. How many of you auto know-it-alls have ever heard of that model? Look it up!) The Mercedes was the only one on which I could reach the price. Superficially, this was because the automatic transmission that was $1500 extra on the BMW was standard on the Mercedes 4matic models. It was also true that that on the Mercedes, I could avoid the $1800 "mandatory option" sunroof package by taking European delivery in Stuttgart, a city where I was going anyway, for family reasons. However, it was just as correct to say that the base price of the Mercedes was $1500 less than the amount that would have put me out of the market.

 

I don't particularly care for the red seat belts in my 2016 C450...kind of boy racer IMO. I'm starting to get used to them though.

Didn't really have a choice either since this vehicle was bought off the lot.

 

Now I say this with less than a month driving my very first Mercedes (historically been a BMW guy but with an open mind), but I have a list of things that I don't necessarily hate, but don't love either.

-Touch pad and dial. I know I can disable the touch pad, but why both.
-COMMAND screen has too much of an unused border around the screen. Couldn't they have made the screen bigger or the overall attachment, smaller?
-Gear selector on column.
-I know I am beating a dead horse with this one but BMW let's you turn off ECO Start/Stop permanently.
-Round AC vents with knob in the middle leave very limited options for phone clips.

Otherwise, I am about as happy as I can be with a car. I actually love it more each day which was the opposite experience I had with my last BMW.

 

I hate the fitment of the rear bumper!

 

haha, I noticed this too. I was thinking - goddamn, did they really not tweak this a bit more before saying - nah, that's good.

 

SAME!! This bugs me the most!

 

Very new owner here, I am only approaching the 1,000 mile mark. My dislikes are very few & very minor...but very common with what others here have expressed:

-Touch pad and dial. So far, I am using the dial 100% of the time, NEVER use the touch pad. Maybe this will change over time?
-Gear shifter on column. I'd love to eliminate to touch pad and put the gear shifter on the center console.
-No ability to turn off ECO Start/Stop permanently. Maybe one day I'll get used to it and like it, but for now, when I forget to disable it, the sensation of stalling out at red lights gives me that split second feeling of panic, LOL.

Other than these minor items - LOVE the car!

 

"NEVER use the touch pad. Maybe this will change over time?" No need for you to ever change. This feature is not for you! MB's main target demographic is now the expanding Asian markets. The touchpad's main purpose is for the input of Chinese and other Asian pictogram characters.

"I'd love to eliminate to touch pad and put the gear shifter on the center console." Can't help you with this one!
"When I forget to disable [ECO Start/Stop], the sensation of stalling out at red lights gives me that split second feeling of panic, LOL." I think you will get used to this, if you don't obsess about it. Easy for me to say -- in my Luxury trim C300, I don't hear the engine at idle, so I don't notice when it switches off! It usually doesn't switch back on, except in hot weather, at the longest lights. Ordinariy, the engine switches back on as a normal part of the process of accelerating from the stop. It is back on and pulling by the time I have completed depressing the acceleratior to the desired power level. I have seen comments that imply that this disengagement/engagement process is much more noticeable in Sport trim and AMG models. Luxury has its privileges! That's why they call it Luxury! I have also heard that the Luxury trims are the "standard" models in the markets outside Europe and N. America. As with the touchpad, MB is optimizing its products for these expanding markets.