meh…

not bad…atleast it doesnt look liek a smaller version of the E and S.

what you talking about. it looks exactly like a small version of the S which looks rather dull itself already.

Like it a LOT better then the current one with it;s low rent looks.

it looks like a good blend between the rear of the CL and the rear of the S, while not looking too proper like the last one did. Mercedes really needs to inject a bit of mean and bite into their cars.. they too blandly styled for all those opting for BMWs and Audis. At least they look better than Lexus’s

Man i think the rear is so ugly it just seems overstyled. Mercedes needs to go back to being elegant and simple. They should build rock solid and last lifetimes like the old ones did.

Another dissappointing new model from Mercedes judging from the rear along. Hopefully the front will make up for the disastrous rear. Why didn’t they use the wider chrome stripe on the S and facelifted E?

MB’s 3-series competitor (or have they given up?) had better have a decent C500, as the powertrain variations listed in this post look rather dismal. If not, I’d say MB is pretty much finished in this segment.

reminiscent of the acura rl’s back. looks fine; i don’t like the where the badging falls however.

Evolutionary not revolutionary.
The rear end will be copied by Korean manufacturers within the next 2 years.
But since these will be used as taxis all over Europe, they had to incorporate blandness into the design.

Both a Toyota Camrys and Hyundai Sonatas look better than that. Even a Mercury Montego stirs the blood more. My God.

Naysayers say nay. What else is new? The car looks just fine. Not jump-out-at-you exciting, but still good nonetheless.

The stop lights are so similar to a Honda City. The signature peanut headlights are gone replaced by something reminiscent of a Camry. What the heck…

looks good, better than the current model!

I don’t think it looks anything like the S from the back. Looks nice though. Def. a step up.

For the past 10 years I really havent liked Mercedes what so ever, I love BMW and I’d always choose BMW over MB, to be honest I really expected something a lot better than this.. the rear of the car IMO is hideous.. Although, these are not official photos, and even if they were I still wait to see the car in person before making my final judgement.

But who am I kidding? I’m sure this car will sell very well just because its a Mercedes and everyone wants a Mercedes.

It looks like the rear end is allowing to more room in the car without making it bigger to me. Kind of like the Scion tC, I kind of like it.

A little conservative but a nice design overall

Notice how the swag line turns into the rear lip spoiler. Interesting detail; I don’t feel like anyone has done that before. ‘Elegant and simple’ is just not where design is going.

I think it looks good. I saw a heavily disguised one similar to above last week here in North Jersey out testing followed by an undisguised CLS 320 CDI w/ Michigan plates. My camara phone is crappy so I didn’t bother trying to grab a pic. Later in the week I saw the CLS 320 CDI again out in front of the local Starbucks. No exterior camo, but the whole center console stack was covered by a neatly trimmed piece of leather that was nicely velcroed to the dash?

How anyone would think BMW have better rears then even lexus is beyond. They are hideous and not worth the first look let alone a second.

For gods sake the 7’s rear was so ugly the gave it a facelift very unusual for the rear.

Not feeling IT one bit with this new design. We’ll know for sure once the wraps are off, but right now, they are being way too conservative if they are going after BMW and Lexus. It looks very blah and that rear end looks like the designer got 3/4 of it completed and gave up!!!

Boring and probably unreliable.

I rather like it - this design theme seems to work better on this smaller model than it does on the larger S Class - although the tail is looking a bit 1st Gen Audi A4 and what’s w/ the huge scoops in the doors for the doorpulls?

Will have to wait to see how the interior looks.   

the s class looks good, because its big, this has a short tail and kinda looks like a combo between a jaguar s type and a s class. dont like it at all

how about the first diesel sport sedan in america??? bring us a bluetec one and it just might keep up with BMW and Audi.. for a little while

poor man’s Benz

I like it, I can’t wait to see the C63, or for that matter the Sport model should be a looker as well if they treat it to the AMG body kit. I thought they shyed away from the 4 bangers though. Oh well the Kompressor 1.8 scoots along quite smoothly.

I think the back is to pudgy,

Thank goodness it doesn’t look like a Neon like the current model does. It reminds me of the very pretty rear end on the second generation AUdi A4. This is HOT I want one

Winding Road has way better pictures of this

Unfortunately this will most likely be unreliable, like all of Mercedes’ models. Doesnt’ really matter though, i bet it’ll still be a sweet drive

Also, I think that once we see the car in its entirety in official Mercedes release photos it’ll look better

I have seen it in person testing. This will be a home-run! Rumor has it that MB will have a tough time producing enough initially.

Bobzooki, name one part of the current C class that looks like a Neon part? I’ve gotta hear this…

Um all of it

That’s not a good enough answer, such an easy way out of a hard question, once again, name one part, just one please.

I keep looking at it, and part of me really likes the somewhat chiseled looks, but at the same time…its so upright/stodgy in appearance, but then again this is only a C220 CDI, maybe a C350 Sport/C63 AMG model would tighten up/buckle down the looks so that it can effectively look comparable to a sporty 3-Series or G35, or even an IS350 or TL or A4. I’m really torn on this one and most cars don’t do that to me

Looks very good.

It doesn’t take much.What a great look,though.

Bobzooki how do you do it? Typing on a blog when clearly you are a blind person. Unless that is you are an imbecile and don’t know what you are taking about? Clearly it is the latter.