BMW 320 is 150hp when this C Class kompressor engine is only 1.8 litre but with 184hp
BMW with only 200 tourge while C Class at 250

Price is BMW slightly cheaper of 10k I guess.

Any comments?

fulala… love the avantgrade one.. superb… cool looks…. fabulous interior…. IF ONI I AM RICH……

XD

Sharp lines and sporty design. The W204 could definitely compete head-on with the boys from Bavaria.

Personally I would say it’s a tad higher on the scores in terms of design when compared with the E90.

The Avantgarde version looks very striking – very much alike an AMG version.

However, the rear could be improved slightly further by making its lines sharper. Overall, a very good effort by Mercedes. Thumbs up for you!

I’ll buy this for my mother as birthday gift if i got the cash……

now i have to learn to like the rear design,

alot of new cars will model thier looks like the lexus rear design.

mattyboy: Autocar is wrong. This car still uses supercharged M271 engines.

spongiosus: different tuning and boost levels

Meanwhile, the interior, with all those boxy-theme, it looks like some Korean car. Can’t they come out wit something interesting? Oh sure, they can say they’re reverting back to the traditional old design, yeah rite. They’ve spoilt the look on the C-class, I’m so sorry, bt I’d rather have the W203. This one is too…..too…….(fill in the blanks) for me.

So this is the new model line by Merc, the biggest rival for premium car, particularly for the Beemer and Audi, their same blood of Hitler. I very impressed by the reaction happen there, they don’t give their competitors move forward. If i launch my model today, you will launch your model tomorrow. Phew!

Can’t comment much of the performance, because i did not test W204 yet, but i guess this should be better than W203. Great engine, good handling, first aid kit car (safety) and all the long list of tech spec. All new model by other manufacturer will do like this nowadays. Ok, just wait for the price tag soon. Should it will better than the all new 3series?

By the way, it seems like the designer come back to the original. Yes, the star icon car start with round design for the start, boxy shape of the middle era, curve like during 2001, and now they going back to the past, combine its all to built the new S-class. No more peanut, no more round.

With the praised achievement of the S-class, so the market push the designer to follow the top of the line model, make it cheaper and the C-Class is made. Same as this, it’s compressed of the big. Now, return to the original boxy C32 W202, but to inject adrenaline of younger looks, the sight of Lexus is added (but the tail lamp remind me the worst SY Stavic). To be honest, i wonder why the C class going to be the size of E and S. I rather like the original size of W202 or the late 190E model. Let C is C, let S is S.

Hm.. the size and space are luxury. So, C can be E, E can be S.
Ok class, start spelling…. A,B,C,D,E…bla..bla.. X,Y.Z. Yey..yey!

Let it be.

damn nice design cue..although it’s a bit off Lexus/Toyota..adding up with S class..

January 24, 2007
The current W203 C-Class has been on the road since the year 2000, and has already been facelifted. Despite being so old, the post-facelift model still manages not to look dated on Malaysian and international roads.

That’s the ability of world class car manufacture. not AFTA standard.

That said, the cabin looks very interesting, and this might just be amazing to drive, since they’ve had the 3-series in their sights for ages now and even Audi have managed to make a contender with the RS4, so they can’t have been taking the task lightly. Could the C-class see a return to Mercedes’ customary levels of over-engineering and sublime quality? *fingers crossed*

Yeap.. at first I thought the same too.. The sleek sharp bumper and headlights seems a bit similar to the IS200

the front looks like it incorporate a lil bit of lexus. rear light looks like the old rear of honda city + merc e-class rear. the car feel a lil bit more conventional than the previous model, but of course the good point is it’s a lil bit larger.

the white one is surely a nice one!!! feel like the 2007 merc cl500

The fact that it looks similar to S class makes C class look attractive to buyers. There are a lot of times when I thought I saw an S-class car, which turns out eventually to be a C-class.

would still go for a beemer though!