By Nick Aziz
Wednesday, Mar 15th, 2006 @ 10:40 am

For the past several months, Mercedes has driven its next-generation C-Class around Europe, testing the car with moderate disguise hiding its design from the public eye. The official debut isn’t expected until next year, but the car received a surprise unveiling on the on the German Autobahn A1 when an amateur photographer captured the car with most of its frontal camouflage removed. It’s unclear if the camo was torn off by wind, or if the engineers had to remove it. Either way, we now know what the front end will look like. (See full image here).