S-Class (W223) [Spy Shots] Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W223) Spy Shots and Info

[Shining Star]

It's going to be a long two years. I'm excited by the surprisingly sleek profile. It also looks like the S will return to a more traditional curved instrument panel hood. Will be nice to see some variation from the current widescreen setup.

 

[MercFan]

The can't get more than 2 years or so before they get clobbered again. It's quite funny. The new A8 will shine for 2 years and then be run off the road again. The Lexus LS what?

M

With such interior design there is no way A8 can shine even 1 day. Lexus is much more interesting)

 

[75KoDe]

BMW spie

Hang on guys is that a sports grill on a S-Class????

 

[data]

The countdown begins.
The emotion of discovering the King.

 

[PHYBENZ]

Def not a sports grill. Thank god.

 

[hannaz]

Where is Maybach 6 Concept influence in the W223??? I expected the next S to have a huge difference in stance and proportion as inspired from Maybach concept - slopping to rear kind of stance and longer hood and short boot proportion.

Or does it mean that Maybach version would be entirely different looking car than the regular S-Class??

 

[Merc1]

Hopefully the next Maybach will be something more unique is keeping in the concept.

M

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

And so it begins....

 

[Sniper]

Exactly 8 years ago we saw the first photo of the w222 mule Spied! - Mercedes-Benz 2014 W222 S-Class (Spy pics & info)

and now the question
Is this car

a mule or a prototype?
P.S. very strange door handles

 

[John Galt]

Looks like a big E class in profile.

 

[SCOTT27]

Poor 7er is so angry seeing the new beauty coming The proportions of W223 look fabulous, it seems even sleeker and more athletic than current one. My expectations are extremely high now, I hope the details of the new S-class will be right.

Benchmarking.

 

[Grosser]

Please Wegener, don't f**k up this

 

[LaArtist]

Yay fun Times

 

[Carmaker1]

Oh shiznat! Already? This is so unexpected! Here comes the hotstepper! I am so shocked, considering that we saw the first mules only so long ago. I was right when I claimed the final design for next S-Class was set in late 2016, as it takes about 1 year to go from full-scale design approval to testing stages like this (design freeze midway through that).

Please Wegener, don't f**k up this

Probably a little too late for that, considering it's been about a year since they made such commitments to the final design. Development of this (I was told) began in 2014, following W222 launch (staggered) in 2013-14. W222 started in late 2006 and W221 in autumn 1999 (design work from 2000). It's all in the minor details now (trim levels, lighting)

 

[sako97]

Benchmarking.

Never turning down opportunities to plug BMW...

 

[Star&Car]

We did the W222 spy thread in 2009,and now almost ten years later we are doing it again.

 

[sako97]

Exactly 8 years ago we saw the first photo of the w222 mule Spied! - Mercedes-Benz 2014 W222 S-Class (Spy pics & info)

and now the question
Is this car

a mule or a prototype?
P.S. very strange door handles

As history proves, this is a mule that will share nothing on the exterior with finished product. I still remember seeing the first shot of the W221 prototype in 2003. Incidentally a year after Autospies infamous leak of the finished W221 product way back in 2002 at a clinic. It still amazes me that happened.

2002:

 

[PHYBENZ]

That’s a prototype not mule... even has the grill. Previous photos were mules, this is first actual prototype.

 

[SKY]

Truth is these mules are more in line with the first real W222 mules we saw after the initial W221-like mules.

 

[Deleted member 1071]

Prototype, I assume.

Some eye-catching, perhaps obscure, details:

A creased ledge under the side-glass window sills (not unsimilar to that of the new A-Class) that appears to lead to a sharply ascending, long and low hood with a consequently low, ground hugging grill (a bit like the Maybach Concept 6 cars). The massive plateau-like hood camo-cladding does not do the most convincing job of disguising this.