Edmunds Straightline: Is this the new Mercedes Benz E-Class?

Honestly, I LOVE the current E class... but then again, it's conservative, and that's what I like.

HOnestly I think MB did much better when they were engineering driven versus so marketing conscious. One of the few things they are doing which I wholeheartedly commend is that they still offer two (pillarless) hardtops. Other than that I'd default ot a Cadillac in most cases.

Before I forget: this car is Uuuuuuu-glee!

Edited February 9, 200620 yr by Sixty8panther

A natural evolution of the current model. Let's hope the electronic gremlins that have plagued the current model are gone. Love the sexy coupe-like styling and beautiful beltline!

WTH is coupe-like about this? This 4-door coupe maddness has to stop. Most of todays "Coupes" are not even coupes by true definition nevermind a 3-box, 4-door, pillared sedan.

Me and XP are going to buy a POS Towncar next summer and make it into a TRUE Town Car.... but first I have to buy a compressor and Zip-cutter.

WTH is coupe-like about this? This 4-door coupe maddness has to stop.

They aren't calling it a 4-door coupe, silly. I just think the racy roofline is "coupe-like," because coupes tend to have racy rooflines. Seriously, chill out.

Hmm... that wagon looks hot.

Hmm... that wagon looks hot.

Yes, I like the coupe-like greenhouse.

Just making sure everyone realizes all three of those images are computer generated illustrations. Someone's guess at what the vehicles will look like.

But yea, if that wagon turns out like that. Wow.

Yea of course, but they really look like MB's design direction as of late...

Hmm... that wagon looks hot.

Hmm... that wagon looks hot.

HOT WAGON HOTTER THAN AN OLD VISTA CRUISER EVEN

The wagon looks like an RL after it had a baby and lost a ton of fat.

I would like the E-class a lot more if it weren't so overpriced and didn't break all the time.

If it is the next E-Class, I love it. And, that will be the hottest wagon of any kind ever made!

The wagon looks like an RL after it had a baby and lost a ton of fat.

Where do you see RL?

Mostly the rear d-pillar

Oh, I thought you meant Acura RL.

Yeah, for some reason I thought Mercedes RL. I think it was the RL at some point. I have no idea with Benz anymore

The sedan in the third picture's door looks like the door on my G6. Could be just the way the chrome is mounted though.

Automobile Magazine had a much better future E in one their issues.

The thing shown at Edmunds' is ugly, a horrible CLS chop-thing.

HOnestly I think MB did much better when they were engineering driven versus so marketing conscious. One of the few things they are doing which I wholeheartedly commend is that they still offer two (pillarless) hardtops. Other than that I'd default ot a Cadillac in most cases.

Before I forget: this car is Uuuuuuu-glee!

But reliability (thus engineering) of MB in the late 80s and early 90s is really nothing to bring home about.

The photos in the Feb issue of Car don't look like that..they show a car much closer to the new S-class style but with wider taillights. The headlight treatment is similar to the first photo, though...kind of like the Lexus GS.

The butt has grown on me. He-he, "Mercedes has a nice butt" ....sounds like something you'd hear on a street corner. :wink:

that wagon pic they have looks awesome