E-Class (W214) [Renders] Next generation E-Class (W214)

[J.E]

Yup. My neighbour recently replaced a 3 year old Audi A5 Cab with a 2003 CLK with grey interior. I have driven the Merc and on the inside it feels like a luxury rather than a premium car.

Why did he replace a 3-year old car for a 20-year old one?

 

[Centurion]

Why did he replace a 3-year old car for a 20-year old one?

It's a she. She's a car person and like cool cars over new and shiny ones. She's one of us, a car person with taste.

Her GF drives a 2022 4er cabriolet.

 

[J.E]

Meanwhile in 2002 and 2017.


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I'm no Benz connoisseur, but I'm sure that's the interior of the updated C218 CLS, no?

 

[S600]

Bentley does, however, give customers a choice.

 

[HUTSUTAo]

 

[Mr. Peanutbutter]

Yup. My neighbour recently replaced a 3 year old Audi A5 Cab with a 2003 CLK with grey interior. I have driven the Merc and on the inside it feels like a luxury rather than a premium car.

Sorry to continue going slightly off-topic, but huh?! Clk interior was cheap af, I would never consider it 'luxury'.

 

[Mr. Peanutbutter]

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What is this trim material? Fibre glass? Don't think I've seen it before.

 

[Serpens]

Sorry to continue going slightly off-topic, but huh?! Clk interior was cheap af, I would never consider it 'luxury'.

Ha I was thinking the same thing. That interior wasn't MB's finest moment back in the day. Pretty though.

 

[SCOTT27]

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Porcelain?

 

[SCOTT27]

In a perfect world we would have been expecting the launch at Geneva next week.

 

[dalab]

What is this trim material? Fibre glass? Don't think I've seen it before.

Looks like some kind of worked plastic

 

[Serpens]

Looks like some kind of worked plastic

Yeah, it's their "silver diamond pattern" which is undoubtedly some sort of plastic.

 

[fan_of_642]

I'm no Benz connoisseur, but I'm sure that's the interior of the updated C218 CLS, no?

Yes, both are the "Mopf" versions, so 211 with 2006... and 218 with 2014...
I'm so happy of beeing very experienced in both supercars

 

[duesy]

Well-designed interiors with two screens are still possible: the new Peugeot 508.

 

[klugscheisser87]

Well-designed interiors with two screens are still possible: the new Peugeot 508.

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I wouldn’t say that.

To me it’s an Audi interior from about 5 years ago.
These vents are alrady an eyesore nowadays also.

 

[empower77]

Saab had that right with their "black panel" function way back in the day.

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Right? I have very dry eyes and constantly staring at those screens and ambient lighting will not be comfortable. Tech for tech’s sake

 

[dalab]

Well-designed interiors with two screens are still possible: the new Peugeot 508.

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Today looking at the photos of FL 408 I came across those same ones from the interior and I was about to post them, it is an excellent interior, simply very good, a delight to sit behind that wheel

 

[Serpens]

Right? I have very dry eyes and constantly staring at those screens and ambient lighting will not be comfortable. Tech for tech’s sake

Honestly I find myself dimming the hyper screen and ambient lighting quite a bit in my spouse’s EQS.

 

[duesy]

I wouldn’t say that.

To me it’s an Audi interior from about 5 years ago.
These vents are alrady an eyesore nowadays also.

I think that's a compliment since Audi interiors are among the most well made in the industry. For me, when it comes to a sedan from the executive segment, good execution takes priority over an unresolved and/or underdeveloped (if more original) idea. Even though screens have been present inside car interiors for nearly two decades and I don't see how adding a third screen adds 'originality.'

Moreover, I think there is value in tradition and familiarity when it comes to brands whose entire image is based on that very premise—and I like my E-Class, like my 5ers, familiar and well executed—and not in competition with something like a Tesla. I still remember what I felt when I first sat in my uncle's W124 500E way back when: there was nothing as solid and well made out there.

 

[Tourbillon]

I think that's a compliment since Audi interiors are among the most well made in the industry. For me, when it comes to a sedan from the executive segment, good execution takes priority over an unresolved and/or underdeveloped (if more original) idea. Even though screens have been present inside car interiors for nearly two decades and I don't see how adding a third screen adds 'originality.'

Moreover, I think there is value in tradition and familiarity when it comes to brands whose entire image is based on that very premise—and I like my E-Class, like my 5ers, familiar and well executed—and not in competition with something like a Tesla. I still remember what I felt when I first sat in my uncle's W124 500E way back when: there was nothing as solid and well made out there.

Yes they are.