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May I suggest we start a new thread for this topic because it's obviously going to be a main subject of lots of E-class threads.

I shall leave it for Chris to start...with a poll

I respect each and everyones opinion and thank you for taking the time to have explained your opinion, but I still don't see it.

What I see are four individual headlights that have evolved out of the W211 E-Class and have also been given a styling infusion from the W204 / X204. The Lexus GS just happens to be a competitor to the E-Class that also makes use of four individual headlights. Nowhere between these two cars do I see any resemblance of any sort, aside from the fact that they both just have four non-connected headlights upfront.




I don't think a poll is needed for this argument here. It would be a pointless poll in my opinion.

The thing is tho, we are all massive car enthusiasts and we all know these car back to front, front to back.

What we really need is peoples opinion who have never seen both these cars in there life!

So thats what I did and all of them said that there is no similarity apart from he fact they are both separated into four

That's not necessarily true. I think a lot of us here know more about cars more than any car journalists and car salesmen combined. Well, except for tennmb .


That's another story. I remember people on this board trashing the LS for having those fake exhaust and for having too many gears with the 8-speed tranny. But I don't see anyone complaining now that the new German cars have fake exhaust and too many gears .

Ain't that the truth. It's not even funny how much I and most others on here know about cars. When I took my A4 to the Dealer, he was confused when I was asking him about 99 A4 and the car dubbed as 99.5 A4. I learned a lot from here and on the Audi forums, but the dealer had no clue wt-f I was talking about.

Does anyone else notice the W212's headlights are disproportionate from each other? They just don't make much sense, the inner one is angled toward the grill so heavily toward the bottom, it just takes away from a cohesive look. Some elements of this car seem slightly disproportionate from each other.

I see what you mean but having seen the car in real life I can tell you that this design aspect creates a nice contrast - it's eye-catching as our eyes/brains always go for visible contrasts first. I don't have a problem with it because it doesn't harm the flow of the cars design IMO.

Cool cool, yeah I hope I feel the same when I see it. I've always been more turned on (automotively speaking ) by clean, cohesive, and organically flowing designs like the 211, and all the lines, etc. made the 212 seem cluttered to me and questionable in its pure design precision. But yeah, the day they come out I'm heading to the showroom to see how the look translates in real life to me.

Yeah i think once we see the car in real it will make things better when i first saw pics off the c class rear and interior i wasnt to happy but after i saw the first car and sat in it things changed and i even bought one.

Wimmer now that u have seen many off them what is your view on the looks and design overall both exterior and interior and build quality..

I saw another new E-class today and Im still not sold on the exterior. But I like the interior and the leather seats looked and felt good.

Read all about my impressions here.

The design is awesome. Conservative, yet sporty and elegant just like the E-Class should be. And I can only praise the interior. The combined materials make a solid and high quality impression.

Part 1: http://www.germancarforum.com/e-class...-part-1-a.html

Part 2: http://www.germancarforum.com/e-class...-part-2-a.html

Part 3: http://www.germancarforum.com/e-class...-part-3-a.html