MB ConceptFASCINATION previews next E-class
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MB ConceptFASCINATION previews next E-class
When the doors open at the Paris Motor Show next month, Mercedes-Benz will be giving everyone a sneak peek of the new E-Class front-end styling. No, not in the form of the new E-Class itself, which will be unveiled at a later date, but in the ConceptFASCINATION, an attractive shooting brake concept based on the upcoming E-Class Coupe's architecture and featuring the new E's front-end styling.
Gone are the round headlamps we've become accustomed to. In their place are new "rhomboid" lamps that, on the show car at least, incorporate fiber-optic driving lights. The grille will likely be the same one seen on the new E Coupe, while we'd expect the sedan to have the traditional grille-and-hood-ornament combo instead. Power comes from Mercedes' new 2.2L, 204-horsepower BlueTEC (with AdBlue) 4-cylinder diesel, which will make its production debut this fall in the Euro-market C250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Super Verbose Prime Edition sedan.
The ConceptFASCINATION's cargo area is covered in wood, and boasts such show-car goodies as a folding glass table that can be pulled rearward, a humidor, a chilled compartment (natch), and storage for binoculars and a camera. A pronounced rear fender arch lends some visual muscle to the whole affair. Hopefully, that's also a hint at what the inevitable E-Class wagon's rump is going to look like. As for the new front end, it's a lot better looking here than spy shots have led us to believe. We'll have much more next month from Paris.
Gone are the round headlamps we've become accustomed to. In their place are new "rhomboid" lamps that, on the show car at least, incorporate fiber-optic driving lights. The grille will likely be the same one seen on the new E Coupe, while we'd expect the sedan to have the traditional grille-and-hood-ornament combo instead. Power comes from Mercedes' new 2.2L, 204-horsepower BlueTEC (with AdBlue) 4-cylinder diesel, which will make its production debut this fall in the Euro-market C250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Super Verbose Prime Edition sedan.
The ConceptFASCINATION's cargo area is covered in wood, and boasts such show-car goodies as a folding glass table that can be pulled rearward, a humidor, a chilled compartment (natch), and storage for binoculars and a camera. A pronounced rear fender arch lends some visual muscle to the whole affair. Hopefully, that's also a hint at what the inevitable E-Class wagon's rump is going to look like. As for the new front end, it's a lot better looking here than spy shots have led us to believe. We'll have much more next month from Paris.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/10/m...s-new-e-class/
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I think this looks pretty good actually, way better than some of those ugly recent spyshots and chops of the E-Class sedan. The front looks nicely formed, a clean face yes with GS elements but it looks nice, a bit R-class ish but I can see it with the horizontal grille and hood ornament. The back is a bit off with the Acura-creaseline but the side profile is nice.
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I had a 2004 E (W211) for a couple of years and really liked it. I think that the styling will definitely be more subtle when it is released as they won't want to offend any customers. This is a huge car for MB and it needs to look good.
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CLS is an E-class based 4-door coupe, but maybe they will have an E-class coupe(2-door) for the next generation ??
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That's a very beautiful concept. I like these "shooting brake" designs, very classy and I hope to see more manufacturers produce concepts like this for the fun of it. Imagine a Cadillac CTS Shooting Brake or a Lexus IS Shooting Brake!? It also seems to have a lot of styling traits from that concept that became the R class, what was it called? GTS? GST?