was just reading about this car on the 4car site....and really..this is surely the antithesis of what mercedes benz stands for....mb used to be a watchword for understated elegance and world beating engineering and reliability...it seems now that they have jumped wholesale onto the rap stars bling bandwagon...the ugly all day new s class....the super bling cls..(which i actually like..go figure!!...maybe its cos in the right colour it does look undersated and it is elegant..)...now this....jeez....the founders must be turning in their graves alongside the suitably spinning wo bentley, charles rolls and henry royce....it seems class is now to be measured not in elegance, pedigree and history, but in in your face consumer overkill wrapped in gold ostrich hide and sea otter pelt.....who the hell is going to buy such vile offerings as this....my reverence and love for mercedes benz is rapidly diminishing...almost as quickly as their taste and self respect it would seem...
Well put, although I strangely like the new Ocean Drive. It's not too different from certain models they produced from the 30s to the 50s. At least they've managed to tame the lines of the S classs luxo-barge into something more elegant. (Notice the use of the word more as I wouldn't calll it beautiful). I think the greates thing about it is that it doesn't cave in at the centre and that rooof is able to go up and down. (anyone who's ever known anyone to own an MGF will know how hard it appears to design such an item). The CLS is another strange vehicle. Both myself and my father (a master of understatement) like it and now is intent on owning one. It is a crying shame that Mercedes have lost that indestructableness and elegance they were once famed for, the epitome has to be the 280 S however a late 70s S class wil do. Noow they are intent on bending to whatever bank balance and their tastes will keep them afloat (not including you Palmy). What with the R class and new G and M, all hideous. The problem is, what do you go for instead? The 'Brits' have priced themselves out of the equation, BMW have an aged 7 series (soon to have it's third tweak) sauntering around and Audi offer nothing but a jumped up Passat.
Getting back to the original point, I cannot see the Ocean Drive heading up the Concours d'Elegance.
Sounds plain daft. Looks daft as well, and they've plonked on their new super-ugly-grille so it looks like one of those East Asian faux-luxury Hyunkia Crown-Prince-Prestige-Classic-Royales....just like the revised E-class.
Ugh, it's bl**dy awful. The Corniche convertible however, which which I assume it has been created to compete .... Hubba-hubba.
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