cgmb16

Last night while shopping I walked out of the mall and there was a brand new R-Class sitting there. All of the badges and name plates where covered up with tape. It was silverand had a white/tan color interior. I saw it at night so I couldn't tell all that well. I hope to see more of them since they are building them no less than 30 minutes away from me. Figured you guys would like to know.

Craig

CLK430

I certainly hope not...it looks like a toyota MATRIX rebadged with Benz logos. Maybe benz and toyota have a parnership?? And to think....they just got rid of the ugly C Class Coupe...now this ?!??!? EWWWW

Nevada Jack

Get that digital camera out and keep it in the car...next time you see one, fill up the memory card and post them on this thread...:-)

Nevada Jack

Since you have to ask " is this car really coming to the states" it is obvious you know not of what you speak. Do some research before you post a troll like entry. It is not only coming to the states, it is being built here and you may have to eat those words later this year.

ruykava

this is the toyota MATRIX (as you put it):


yes they're in the same class of vehicles, but i'm not seeing the resemblance...

oh for the record, i thought the C Coupe was a beautiful car, certainly so much better than the 1-series or 3-Compact it was supposed to compete against

but yes, PLEASE get some REAL LIFE R-class pictures out here... =)

elbimmer

I like the R-Class, the ultimate family car!

jimmyg

Two R-Class and one B-Class on the highway in Dubai (Sh. Zayed Rd, near the Mercedes showroom headed towards downtown for you Dubai residents). These aren't great pics but they were the best I could manage at 130km/h with a crappy camera phone with three unhappy German-looking drivers trying to avoid me. R-Class looked taller than I expected.

Last Summer I saw the new ML several times, one MLK, and one 2007 S-Class.

Nevada Jack

The last time I was in Dubai was 1956 so I can't quite remember the location...:-)))

I guess these are still the Vision R European version models since the US Production version has already been shown in NY.

Thanks for posting. Picture quality is quite good considering the conditions you had to shoot under.

jimmyg

Hah! And I thought I'd lived here a long time. They were still landing sea planes in the creek back then and there weren't many roads, certainly not where these pictures were taken. Dubai has changed quite a bit since you were here last...definitely worth a visit. You can grab the daily non-stop out of JFK and be here in 12 hours. Or you could invite me to Vegas and I'll bring a photo album and my some spare change for the slots.

Nevada Jack

Yeah...that was a long time ago. I was a photomate on the only US Navy's force in the Gulf. A 311' converted sea plane tender painted white and fully air conditioned. Had an Admiral on board who visited all the sheik's in the region and I shot pictures of the visits and they were delivered when we departed. Home ported in Bahrain. Stayed 9 months because of the canal being closed. A pretty deserted area then but tremendous changes in the countries and the US Navy's presence since!

I think I'll pass on the shuttle flight for a visit and if you come to Sin City you had better bring more than "spare change" for the slots...:-) Things have changed here also. Keep those cameras rolling...

G55K

I like it. Great family hauler.

Incendiary

MLK and 2007 S-class? Was the W221 camo'd to the gills? And I didn't realize there were any prototypes or mules of the MLK yet. Did you mean SLK?

MKW

The flat, near verticle rear hatch screams " minivan" - uugh .

Nevada Jack

From other pictures the "rear hatch" does have a rounded contour. But whatever it is called it has a minivan gene or two as well as a wagon gene and a SUV gene..:-)

jimmyg

S-Class was hard to recognize, but someone else got a picture of what I saw:
http://www.autoemirates.com/Archive/...s.asp?nid=2019

I saw three different ML prototypes last summer, the one that looked like what has been launched recently which I got a photo of (http://www.jimmygrewal.com/mt/archives/000151.html), one that was all black with a spare wheel on the back, and one that was quite small...like a BMW X3. I'm almost positive it's what is now referred to as the MLK.

I saw the R-Class again today on the way home from work, just outside the DC Middle East warehouse. As the weather gets warmer, I'm sure that some more interesting things will turn up. There is a new F1-class auto circuit here that was used a lot by various manufacturers last summer during the hottest parts of the day. The other company which had a lot of test vehicles here last summer was Land Rover. I regularly saw the new Discovery and once saw a Ranger Rover Sport. The hot weather testing for the Porsche Cayenne and their promotional videos were shot in the desert outside Dubai. Brabus also does some hot weather testing here...but it's more of a marketing effort for their rich customers who live here.

Incendiary

Interesting. BTW, MB has trademarked the name GLK. Any idea whether they decided to call it GLK instead of MLK, or perhaps this is just something to raise speculation?

Nevada Jack

I think he is referring to the new G Class and as such it has it's own designation. It is not part of the M line.

Incendiary

Huh? I know the G class is separate. I'm talking about the GLK. MB has it trademarked in the US, along with GLK Kompressor, etc.

Wolfgang

Mercedes-Benz GLK

Incendiary

Er, this is a pshop, right?

Wolfgang

That's a photo of Jim Rogers in his GLK. He actually drove it around the world a couple years ago.

http://www.jimrogers.com/