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Mercedes-Benz F700

Dubbed the F700, the large luxury sedan plots a direct path to the next-generation S-Class due in 2012, with state-of-the-art engine and suspension technology, as well as an advanced avatar-based controller system and radical new styling developed by the German automaker’s U.S.-based design studio in California.

WTF is with the front doors!?

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Edited September 12, 200717 yr by Pontiac Custom-S

20% poorly drawn Japanime circa 1994

30% my sketch books full of cars from High Shcool Study Hall (1993-7)

50% Mitsubishi Eclipse

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Sort of looks like a big R-class with the wagon cut off it. I am not a big fan. In fact, :puke:

Interesting, but overdone.

It's more about the technology than styling.

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Autos...rticleId=122549

1.8l DiesOtto twin-turbo DI engine with hybrid assist

laser road surface scanning suspension

Edited September 12, 200717 yr by empowah

This is another genius Mr. Detroit Metal creation... right?

That 1.8L engine sounds like a technological marvel...shame it's wrapped in something so ugly.

Puke after gagging me with a spoon.

I dont' care if it is principally for the technology, there is such a thing as overkill.

Very cool. A true concept, instead of a car that's 99% production ready with a few extra touches. Cutting edge design; an experimental drivetrain... I love it.

Shame I just ate before seeing the pictures.

As an eye catching design exercise to showcase the company's new technology, it succeeds. This thing sure does attract attention (good or bad).

As a signal of future design direction for Mercedes, it fails. I hope this thing remains a design exercise and nothing more; it looks like they left an S-Class sedan in the sun too long.

I don't think there's an attractive angle on that car. And aren't concept cars supposed to have better materials and panel gaps on the interior than production cars? That dash is n-a-s-t-y.

-RBB

reminds me of the old rivieras how they swooped up past the doors.

Looks like a snail!

S 220

I like it for the fact that Mercedes has truly and obviously given their designers and engineers the freedom to dream very well beyond production to a concept that is almost out of this world! It suceeds be it good or bad, but I'm sure a lot of this concept will be far more tastefully engineered into the final production piece. I actually like it a lot, and in the process they've earned a lot more of my respect!

From the side, there's a lot of RX-8 in it.

I love it!!! This car stand out from the crowd and that is what a luxury car should do. Cadillac keep the unique A&R going.

Even cooler than ever before.

What the hell was that awful yellow car a few posts back?.

OMG: it has fender skirts !!! Shades of 1975 (except that they're plexiglas !)

> FAR too radical for a production mercedes.

> The profile is absolutely, intolerably hideous.

> How is 238 hp (+20 with electric assist) "competitive" in a car that weighs 4500 lbs??? (Not to mention going from 382 hp to 238 ??)

> Is MPG really important to those paying nearly $90K?

> Is something amiss with the current s-class that M-B is showing a finished replacement not due out for 4 years? Backlash over the mazda fenders??

That grille is really out of place.