2012 C class official
01-13-2011, 12:31 PM
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The C class on its own has never been a great looking car. The C350 starts to get better looking with bigger rims and more aggressive trim packages.
The C280 was silly looking. If you notice in the pic it badged a C250. I imagine this is the lowest and least expensive of the facelifted C class vehicles. Im sure the C350 with the facelift will look better.
The C63 with the same facelift will also bring it up a notch from the C350.
The interior however is a huge step in the right direction. The flip up navigation was cool for about 30 seconds until you see what they do with the same space in a regular C class without nav and go "Ewwww"
Its wait and see at this point as far as I'm concerned.
The C280 was silly looking. If you notice in the pic it badged a C250. I imagine this is the lowest and least expensive of the facelifted C class vehicles. Im sure the C350 with the facelift will look better.
The C63 with the same facelift will also bring it up a notch from the C350.
The interior however is a huge step in the right direction. The flip up navigation was cool for about 30 seconds until you see what they do with the same space in a regular C class without nav and go "Ewwww"
Its wait and see at this point as far as I'm concerned.
01-13-2011, 12:31 PM
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I have never seen such a huge face lift as this, the entire dash? Maybe the pics with the new dash is for the new coupe?
01-13-2011, 12:42 PM
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^ I hope not. The w204 int was a major let down to me. Something about the buttons and plastic around the radio really made it look cheap to me, compared to the W203 face-lift int. I think its the wood being in the dash that I like so much more. The current int is way too much plastic martial and not enough wood and other trip pieces,
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Haha No one knows yet! Maybe?
01-16-2011, 10:24 AM
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the new more vertical nose is probably the result of new EU regs requiring cars to be less damaging to pedestrians, I personally dont like it... but remember, "'I'm a traditionalist", "I like the classics" and "I like mine better" often means I cant afford the new one so I'm gonna talk it down
01-21-2011, 01:55 AM
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I see absolutely nothing that I consider an improvement (with the possible exception of the steering wheel, and that's a maybe...). The new headlights aren't as aggressive/masculine as the current ones, the new dash looks waaaaaay too BMW/Audi and less Benz-like, I despise the whale-hump in the middle of the dash for the sat/nav (I love the current dash with the pop-up sat/nat so you can close it when you want to and have a classic "sports-car" instument binnacle look), and apparently I am the last guy left in the world who thinks all the new LED driving lights look ridiculous. They are so copycat/trendy/required now on every new car (curse you Audi for starting this trend...) and to me even on a Porsche they look like high-school aftermarket Honda tuning. As usual the designers took a very clean and elegant first generation design and "facelifted" it just for the sake of change and did not improve on the original (previous examples of this syndrome are too numerous to even list). So far, with the various styling, options, and engine changes that Mercedes has confirmed for the next couple years there is absolutely nothing that makes me want to "upgrade" to a newer model. Time to award a big "FAIL" to Benz's marketing department, although to cut them some slack I think many of these changes are being forced on them by new emmission and safety regs. Guess I will have to wait and see what's out there around 2014 when I have over 100K much enjoyed high-speed miles on my glorious 2009 Palladium Silver C63. I am in no hurry to buy anything else.
The only thing I dont like is the black 19" wheels, I would prefer the titanium so will look to change later.
And who needs the internet in their car???
