C-Class [pictures] C-Class AMG - history

[coolraoul]

My favourite still is the C43.

That makes it 2 of us.

43 and 63 take the cake.

My favourite is also the C43.
It's obviously (for car lovers) not a conventional C-Class, but it's not as obvious and in-your-eyes as the C63. It's understated, yet looks very powerful, but stays really classy... I think it's the better mixture.
The 500E had that too...

As second favourite comes the C63, screaming power, and infinitely powerful and dirty.

Then comes the 190, a classic. Love the shape it has.

The W203 does nothing to me: even I can't see it's an AMG... I like understatment, but won't give so much money to have the same car as my neighbour's 200CDI!

 

[bmer]

OK, this explains why new MB steering wheels are not very good-looking. The designers were told to use retro elements in the design and so they were inspired by this :

 

[Tarek]

^Lol i forgot to comment about that when i first saw it,super ugly

 

[Zafiro]

So what's his plans now? C63 perhaps?

hardly, he is now driving a Saab 93 from year 2001

here is his C43 in the background (where it belong )

 

[Tarek]

His car was a wagon?! glad he sold it

So what's up with that delicious RS4?

 

[Zafiro]

His car was a wagon?! glad he sold it

So what's up with that delicious RS4?

that car belong to another guy I know. I meant "belonged", he now drives a M6 instead.

 

[cawimmer430]

And i assume u didn't take a pic?

So much for Mr Chris DSLR carrier

I took a picture and uploaded it into a photo album on Sony ImageStation - We're Closed - which doesn't exist anymore.

And in those days I had my old Fujifilm 4700 FinePix digital camera!

 

[cawimmer430]

OK, this explains why new MB steering wheels are not very good-looking. The designers were told to use retro elements in the design and so they were inspired by this :

Notice how the interior of the 190 was well made, but appears CHEAP in comparison to the current W204.

 

[Tarek]

I took a picture and uploaded it into a photo album on Sony ImageStation - We're Closed - which doesn't exist anymore.

And in those days I had my old Fujifilm 4700 FinePix digital camera!

Oh man


U don't have a back up on an external somewhere?

 

[bmer]

Notice how the interior of the 190 was well made, but appears CHEAP in comparison to the current W204.

Yeh, the materials and the quality are better with every generation. Nevertheless I prefer the W203 interior design.

 

[Tarek]

Yeh, the materials and the quality are better with every generation. Nevertheless I prefer the W203 interior design.

Glad to see that i'm not the only one who like the W203 interior design,for some reason that generation C gets really hammered here

 

[cawimmer430]

Oh man


U don't have a back up on an external somewhere?

Nope.

It was a bad shot anyway. I'm sure the car is on google somewhere too. It's a purplish-blue S202 C55 AMG T-Modell.

 

[cawimmer430]

Yeh, the materials and the quality are better with every generation. Nevertheless I prefer the W203 interior design.

I actually like the W202 and W204 interiors the best. The W202 has that classic 1980s MB look and feel to it with a hue of modern design and a cleaner evolution of the 190 cabin. The W204 interior looks relatively modern and sporty.

 

[Tarek]

Nope.

It was a bad shot anyway. I'm sure the car is on google somewhere too. It's a purplish-blue S204 C55 AMG T-Modell.

U mean S202 right?

 

[cawimmer430]

U mean S202 right?

Yep! Man I am getting old (Alzheimers).

 

[Tarek]

Yep! Man I am getting old (Alzheimers).

Far from it

 

[PC Valkyrie]

Some more pics of the 190E-AMG, C43 AMG, C55 AMG, and C63 AMG to compare at various angles. You can really see some similarities between the W201 and W202. From the side and rear angles, even the W203 and W204 obviously share the SAME lineage (as much as many people hate to admit). The only thing that stands out from the rest is the front headlamp design of the W203. And I still say there is not much in common between the W201 and W204.

 

[PC Valkyrie]

Here are the pictures for the C36 AMG, C32 AMG Estate, and C63 AMG Estate from the same set of press pictures as the original ones I posted. In the other benz forums I particpate in, the members were upset that I didn't include the C36 and C32.

 

[Merc1]

The wagons have always been pretty hot. There wasn't a W202 wagon was there?

M

 

[Sunny]

From that angle, it is almost like 203 never happened. Pretty much like if you look at 911 evolution, 996 never happened.