Car looks good, wish you happy miles ahead.

 

Congrats on your new car! I really like the color.

 

Thanks guys! Yeah the 19s will ride better lol

 

Start a new thread after you pick it up outlining the options, financial deal and first impressions.

 

Good and reasonable choice i believe. You might be able to find a nice 20" wheels in the aftermarket place, that should step up the look big big time.
For the i7, I told you man, that range is a joke, and from experience, not YouTube, I know that out of that 320 miles range they claim, in most cases on a highway you are not going to get more than 200 miles of "usable" range and am not exaggerating. And even if they get access to Tesla chargers, that range is still useless at least to me. I'll avoid explaining what "usable" means as it won't matter now, but really I've always believed that the i7 range is a joke, that range is useless to me literally.. Being in a cold climate zone too, that car won't serve me at all during harsh winter months with the severe range drop.
Well, let's hope that the next S-class generation will be a true fully electrified EV... the i7 design isn't going the direction that I was hopping to see and I doubt even the LCI would fix the design (as for range, it'd still be in the 350sh range which is very marginal if not too low already). 500 EPA miles EV range is what I think could replace a 350 miles ICE car, and 400 EPA EV range is my absolute minimum threshold before it's becomes a hassle on highways.

 

The range isn’t so much the issue, I have no problem stopping for 25 min to charge, it’s just having reliable options for stopping that’s the issue.

On my way to go get it now. Will post a thread!

 

the latest from autoevolution ...

 

That's not good; I prefer the old to the new.

 

Please tell me the white car has the AMG Line pkg.

 

White car clearly has the AMG line package.

I don't dislike the front, but I hate the star DRLs. So tacky.

 

These are still complete speculation. I even think this is a more extreme makeover then we'll actually see.

 

MB has to chill with the stars in the lights lol.

 

Well said lol. If they must, just have a couple but either in front or back. Less is more.

 

It’s so tacky and flies in the face of what the S Class stands for imo. The S Class is about understated luxury without being overly pretentious. These lights do not fit that category.

I don’t like either of the lights, but the taillights look worse to me. Weird DRL is par for the course these days but those taillights look unnatural and messy to my eyes and like it’s trying way too hard.

 

The good news is, the render looks very exaggerated, the spyshot on the first page of this thread clearly shows a much smaller "star" in the headlights.

 

I don’t see how that rendering (front end specifically) can be even close to how the LCI front end will look like. The taillights rendering is reasonable and that’s how I’d expect, but whoever did the front-end rendering did a very bad job. It can’t be true.

I love the tailight and rear-end design of the current W223 as is and hope they won’t make any major changes (though that was the first thing I disliked when it was revealed years ago). I think the front end can take some improvements (perhaps sharper headlights, though Mbenz mostly only change the interior design of tail/headlights but not the overall dimensions/geometry).

 

Sadly, I do think they will mess with the taillights, and put something similar to the W214 there will probably be one star additional on each taillight assembly but the overall stars are smaller (there are spy shots with the outline of that taillight if I recalled correctly), they will indeed put a few stars in the headlights as well as shown in OP's first image, the rest stays the same. There will people who like it, doesn't care and still buy it. Though : (

 

I don't think the "starts" belong to the S-class - they are just too flashy for a car like this. I think they'll match what they did to the GLS, mostly three dash-like LEDs though I prefer the pre-lci LEDs. Anyway even the stars design in the E-class isn't horrible. The rear-end of the W223 looks great - the profile is low, and wide and that's what matters.

 

I mean, mean neither but when MB came up with the Maybach SL, you can see that is how it is heading, sadly.

Will be curious what they do with the Mythos SL.

 

We know there will be stars, you can see them on the test mules, front and back.

 

You're right, I just checked again and saw it also for the front headlights. It looks way too odd... Fine with tailights and the star design, but it's a bit too much for the front headlights. Anyway I look forward to seeing the full reveal. I don't think it will be that controversial.

 

It was inspired by their CLA EV Concept.