leapingpoint

no more sketches or photoshopped drawings.

these photos were posted on chinese E-class forum last week.
apparently mercedes china is already testing the new E-class,
prepping the re-designed e-class for its factories in china.

looks more like the CLS or S class design. quite nice.

xolinlevh

me likie....

vdubpower

is that from an erectric car???

clock in center dash is proper and so is silver buttons, a'la cls and proper hi end mercs

BM2BZ

those chinese characters shown look pretty cool . i wonder what other languages are available worldwide .

BenzV12

Thanks , I wondered what they would put where there was once a analog clock . I wish they could use it as a trip computer readout but right side of the gauge is pretty cool I think it should be amp meter
Interior is more classier may be I can upgrade the interior even though it cost me a small fortune lol
I wonder what seat controllers to look like , I like R231 SL's a lot
Because they dramatically seem to upgrade the interior thanks to adding aluminum/chrome buttons in the center may be seat buttons also take a refreshing touch as well

hyperion667

wow, looks nice.........still won't have Hockey stick LED's LOL!!!!!!!
but the clock looks really nice, even though it pisses me off that I have that in
my exclusive cls, and now E has it too.........
still looks better than having it in the cluster...
thanx for sharing

leapingpoint

Doesn't your CLS63 have IWC clock?!
i think that is still exclusive for AMG models.....

ImInPA

The dash is from the E300 Hybrid. I think that is coming to the US at some point. I do like the clock being moved.

Tomspo04

Will these changes be made on the US 13's?

BM2BZ

here you can compare the two:


i got this one from other thread where mikemargolis posted his beautiful interior color combo:

BM2BZ

unfortunately, the comand screen size looks the same as the current model .

alsyli

Are you trying to be funny? Because unless you actually did just misspell the world "electric," your question sounds more racist than comical.

Arrie

Those alum / chrome buttons look cheap. I like the old one better.
And that clock in the middle gets old really quick.

Its so funny when they made the car almost perfect and then they just have to come up with something new every so often and start going worse...

Current 212 interior is extremely well designed and there really is not much to improve with the looks. They should spend more time in perfecting it, i.e. making it more quiet and improving in electronic features. Keep the frigging looks as it is.

Wig

Hideous design that looks exactly like facelifted C-Class interior. Current design is far superior.

Also, this takes away the exclusivity of the CLS interior (even though I don't like it).

Why do away with E-Class traditions like the clock in the instrument panel?

And don't get me started on those horrendous 'tunnels' around the dials. What is the point of them?

As I've said before, please can we have a simple, flat and classy design for the instruments like BMW?

Shifter

Thats not a US 13 model, interior is pretty much the same as the 12 year.

leapingpoint

the clock in the instrument panel is kinda stupid in my opinion. moving the clock to the center console is a smarter idea, so that all passengers in the car can actually see it...

"tunnels" around the dial on the instrument panels are standard on "avangarte" lines of mercedes. US customers might not be familiar with the terms "elegance" "avangarte" used on mercedes models; they are like different packages (interior/exterior) for euro spec mercedes.

anyways. like it or not, this is what the new E interior looks like.

leapingpoint

it's rumored to be the E400 Hybrid, possibly the same engine used on S400 Hybrid.

Wig

The 5 Series instrument panel is far superior IMO. Simple, elegant and classy.

NOT trying to look like a 'muscle car'.

Tjdehya

Simple, elegant, and classy to you equals cheap, dated, and ugly to me.
I am sorry I am not a fan of that dash. It was one of the many reason why I didnt buy a 5er.
I am a HUGE fan of their infotainmanet system though. It make our tiny Nav screen look cheap and dated.

Wig

Fair enough. We all have different opinions.

I like the current W212 dash, but I think MB are moving in totally the wrong direction with the 2014 replacement.

I guarantee the new S-Class won't have a faux sports car dash, so why does the E-Class get one? I understand that the CLS and C-Class are more 'sporty', but this is not the role of the E.

K-A

Much nicer interior, though I don't like the CLS style tunnel gauges (too gimmicky, at least the current ones are a bit subdued in comparison, yet still "aggressive" in a sense due to the hooded nature). Also, now the CLS's interior won't be as special since the E is obviously gonna look so close to it, not to mention share so many interchangeable parts now.

The COMAND screen looks like a sideways iPhone to me, done deliberately I'll assume due to M-B Designers' affinity and stated inspiration by Apple's industrial design.

dfordham

The E's interior will be nicer. It won't have the CLS's bare cupholders in the console.

Regards,
Don

Wig

Don - is that known, or are you hoping that's true?

Tjdehya

I wouldn't be so sure about that.
When i saw this pic, I was sure that they were covering the center for that exact reason.

K-A

Agreed. What a hideous thing to do to such a premium car (or any car, for that matter, constantly exposed cup holders?!

In EU the CLS has a covered wood door like the E, yet in the U.S for whatever reason M-B disregarded that. This along with weird cheap things like cost cutting a proper electronic "beep" from the alarm after 2010 on what's supposed to be a Premium Manufacturer, constantly make me wonder what M-B are thinking when it comes to the finer details.