Re: Official: W212 Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Man, you really raised so strong points here!
We coud easily make another thread on these points. Mercedes uses a certain "trickle down" design scheme that progressivly "burns" the design language on both ends from the higher models to the lower ones`
and from the lower to the higher (at least in the past it`s been this way).
This can trun into a complex arguement to say the least.. the S-Class was introduced before the C-Class but the C-Class is the one with the progressive "new-wave" hardwear like the new square shapes which is something new to MB design work.
I already pointed out eariler in this thread that the S-Class has taken some new "traditional-formal" designs from the Maybach. That traditional theme has fallen on the E-Class but the E-Class mixes it with the progressiveness of the C-Class. The E-Class is like the "fusion point" between the S-Class and the C-Class designwise. Eventially whats happening with the latest C-Class might, (thats a big might) work it`s way up to the next S-Class in some mannor.
Then we will see a completely new design for the C. The E will again be the fusion point.
The S-Class still has the old design theme of MB, with flowing, soft, organic lines.
The C-Class is, like often, the one who started the new design theme.
Just out of my memory, I believe it was the W201 190 who started the new them, extended to the W124 E-Class and finally the W140 S-Class.
After that, the W202 C-Class was the first with big triangular rear lights at the very top of the rear, this time not taken on the W210 E-Class, but on the W211 E-Clas and on the W220 S-Class.
However, it was the W210 E-Class who started the organic lines, theme with fancy headlamps, that the W220 S-Class perfectionned and that finally spread to the W203 C-Class.
It's natural: every model is putting the design of the brand a bit further, and at a point this design has to evolve, to change ans one model is doing it. Because of the release date, it can be the C, E or S, here it was obviously the W204 C-Class.
As far as the Maybach is concerned... it is very inspired by the W220 S-Class, while of course having some design traits that were an evolution of it and that were taken by the W221. The whole rear of the Maybach is very similar to the W221, boot and window and rear lights are the same.
