Went by my old stomping grounds to take a closer look at the new C300 and visit the old crew… the interior was incredible. Blows the previous version away.
exterior
So damn expensive for a C300 though… they had some >$50k!
I think the old C exterior looked better, this one looks a little old man-ish. I think replacing the hood ornament and putting the star in the front was a great idea but it looks bad if they have plastic in between the three spokes.
One car that’s aged really well IMO is the previous gen BMW 5. It looked average when it was unveiled, but looks pretty classy now, especially when standing next to the flabby current 5 series.
CLA and C-Class are different lines. The C-Class is a larger, RWD, and more expensive model. The CLA is a new FWD entry level car based on the A-Class (“CL” + “A”). It has been the convention at Mercedes to use “CL” to signify the “coupe” versions of of their sedans.
However, it is very confusing, since Mercedes refers to some four door cars as “four door coupes”. Furthermore, the CLS is based on the E-Class, and the S-Class coupe was just called the “Mercedes CL”. In the future, they will start to use a more sensible naming convention though. This will line up the letter names across different platforms.
It’s also worth mentioning that cars like the CLA 45 AMG and GLA 45 AMG are not considered true AMG cars. They are what Mercedes calls the “AMG Sport” line, which is something in between normal Mercedes and AMG Mercedes. The CLA 45 AMG has a 4 cylinder engine, which you would never find in a normal AMG car.
^ funny story involving sl63s from back in the day, we had a couple come in and buy a pair of sl550s. They came back a few months later to trade them in for sl63s, about 6 months later, they ordered a pair of sl65s and traded the 63s in! Lottery winners…