S-Class (W221/C216) Mercedes-Benz S-Class W221 Facelift (Spy Photos & info)

[hannaz]

You're completely right!! This is the Guard version with the B6/B7 armour! Since three month or so, this version is also available with the 420 CDI engine!

That is indeed a great news for non-oil producing countries.

 

[Merc1]

Mercedes' S-class isn't just the best-selling saloon in the limo sector – it utterly dominates it. Merc sells around 85,000 S-classes every year globally, but it's not resting on its leather-clad laurels. In 2009, it'll roll out this facelifted model, which ushers in further refinements to the whispery quiet S-class, a squeaky-clean hybrid model and clever tech galore.

How clever? Well, the new S is said to be the first full series production hybrid to use a lithium ion battery (like the power pack in your mobile) and there's a new Splitview screen that lets a single digital display show different pictures to the driver and passenger. So one could be using the sat-nav mode while the other – preferably the passenger – can be watching television.

Facelifted Merc S-class (2009): the full details

We expect the revised S to land in showrooms later in 2009 and the main news will be the arrival of the S400 BlueHybrid, in continental markets at least. The UK won't initially take the new hybrid which would be more expensive and barely any cleaner than existing CDI models.

The petrol-electric S-class mixes a 280bhp 3.5 V6 petrol engine with a new type of hybrid system incorporated into the front of the seven-speed auto transmission; the system has been co-developed with GM and BMW. Those lithium ion batteries are more powerful and lighter than their nickel cadmium predecessors, weighing in at a feathery 27kg.

The S400 BlueHybrid averages 35.8mpg and emits 190g/km of CO2. Good, but no great shakes when you remember that the best-selling S-class – the cheaper S320 CDI – tips out 34mpg and 220g/km.

So what is new on the rest of the S-class range?

Our spy photos reveal same-again styling, pepped up by fresh details. We're talking LED lights, fresh boxed-off rectangular exhausts, different bar count in the grille, that level of anorakdom...

Expect the nipped-and-tucked S-class to cost from around £55,000 when UK sales kick off in 2009. Continental markets will get a new S250 CDI model powered by a 2.1-litre turbodiesel and a new S350 CGI V6 petrol is in the pipeline too.

Perfect timing to battle the new BMW 7-series and imminent 2010 Audi A8 that breaks cover at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show.


Mercedes S-class facelift (2010) new spy photos | Secret New Cars | Car Magazine Online


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[NarutoRamen]

The new teeth like front looks kind of odd, but at least it's not as conservative as the current one. Also, not sure about the LED running lights. I'll have to wait and see how this turns out.

 

[M.Toni]

Yeah those led lights are plain and not imaginative at all - just like on A6. I really don't like those. Othervise this is a good looking facelift.

 

[Tarek]

I really hope there's chrome under the rear tape.

 

[Centurion]

The minimal camo tells me that this car is due unveiling well before summer 2009.

 

[SKY]

I think on this pic we can crearly see how the rear lights will look like, no chrome strips, but the red shape we can see on this pic. I think it´s going to look far better than the current model, you´ll see.

 

[PHYBENZ]

I willing to bet there will be some chrome strips under the tape... Could be wrong, but I think otherwise they would look too plain.

 

[VroomVroom]

I willing to bet there will be some chrome strips under the tape... Could be wrong, but I think otherwise they would look too plain.

No chrome strips

If you go back a couple of posts I did a quick paint job of the led layout

You can also see a tiny bit of orange under the left light tape

 

[GTA45E]

I`d also like to add that AMG needs to use uniqe mirrors down the AMG line, at least to the S65/63, E63 and CLS63.. (we can exclude the C63) The mirrors on the AMG models should look like the f/l SL63 mirrors.

not the boxy ones found on the regular Mercedes models, doesn`t
fit the persoanlity of the AMG line IMO.

I`d also like to see these wheels on the S63. 65 can have different ones..

The AMG models should also have their own sport steering wheels and, not special rimed Mercedes steering wheels.

 

[SKY]

I´m totally with you GTA. I wish sooner or later we will see the AMGs with their own steerings.

 

[NarutoRamen]

I`d also like to add that AMG needs to use uniqe mirrors down the AMG line, at least to the S65/63, E63 and CLS63.. (we can exclude the C63) The mirrors on the AMG models should look like the f/l SL63 mirrors.

That's truer than mofo man. Sometimes the mirrors on the Benzes look like elephant ears..of course not as bad as the real elephant ears on the Q7.

 

[GTA45E]

^
Big lOl, thats funny as hell!!

 

[Leech]

LED fogs?


and that front bumper looks much better now =)

 

[M.Toni]

Ok I was really liking the facelift of the S but on this pictures it's all gone. What is MB thinking going the Audi way and putting LED anywhere they can. If I think they have LEDs now in the front light and also as the fog light down in the bumper - sorry but that is just stupid looking. And the front bumper is now even worse - this is the flagship of the sedans not a F1 racing car.

 

[M.Toni]

I willing to bet there will be some chrome strips under the tape... Could be wrong, but I think otherwise they would look too plain.

I've got a hint from a source that chrome strips won't be present on the FL S. I hope the source is wrong but not likely.

 

[Leech]

Ok I was really liking the facelift of the S but on this pictures it's all gone. What is MB thinking going the Audi way and putting LED anywhere they can. If I think they have LEDs now in the front light and also as the fog light down in the bumper - sorry but that is just stupid looking. And the front bumper is now even worse - this is the flagship of the sedans not a F1 racing car.

well i think they didn't put led fogs at bumper oO

it seems that fogs are integrated in main light cluster oO

maybe I'm wrong but that's how it looks to me ...

 

[PHYBENZ]

well i think they didn't put led fogs at bumper oO

it seems that fogs are integrated in main light cluster oO

maybe I'm wrong but that's how it looks to me ...

I beleive you're wrong... the LED's at the bottom of the main light cluster are the turn signals... the horizontal strip in the corners of the bumper are the led's....

 

[sako97]

Looks so fresh, especially with the L.E.D lights.

 

[LaArtist]

Whoa..that new monster face is amazing..
and the rear lights..wow..

this will put everyone in that category back in their places..
cause some truely think they can challange The King