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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
New Mercedes Wagon
I love Mercedes-Benz. I do, I really do, and I also have a strange love of sports wagons (Subaru Legacy wagon, BMW 3-series, Cadillac CTS wagon, etc.), but this is just looks bad. I personally think that the Mercedes C Class is beautiful. I even test drove one in the delusional thought that I could actually afford one and they are very, very nice, probably the nicest entry level luxury car in the industry. But this....I don't think so. Kind of looks like it was built out of left over parts. It's got the body of a CLS Sedan with the roof and chassis of a R class crossover. Just kinda ugly. Until now, I had thought that Mercedes-Benz had one of the best looking lineups in the industry, but with this and the new SLS, I'm not so sure anymore. The SLS is a great performance car, but let's face it, it's ugly. So is this. They are saying it will have the same powerhouse options as the CLS sedan which had a 3.5 liter V6, a 4.7 liter V8, or a 5.5 liter twin turbo'd V8. Any way you put it, it just kind of screams "I'm an irresponsible parent !", because the only people that will buy this will be parents with too much money and no taste in family oriented cars. Plus, no wagon really needs a twin turbo'd engine, that's just kind of overdoing it. Anyways. It'll be interesting to see the response and reviews of it from auto experts. I wonder what Jeremy Clarkson will have to say about it.....
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ReplyDeleteUgly or not, isn't it still a step up from a minivan (taste wise--not practicality).
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