Red Mercedes (still can)
Posted on 05-01-2016 at 14:02 by perry_snijders – 111 Comments”
Yesterday licked the photos of the new Mercedes E-Class. Probably went to Mercedes the flag out, because now do pr-managers next week a little less fanatic about the horlepiep to dance with the new sedan, which is really oogbalverbrijzelend.
At Mercedes are the jokes about taxis and the stars are never far away, but today, we are there. I am a lover of the brand. I have three mercedes benz cars, including the superb 190 E 2.3-16 (which by most of my friends, incidentally, just a derdehands taxi with the spoilers ” was called, but that aside). Also the E-Class I have checked, all was mine (W124) not so. What those cars with each other had in common, was that they are beautiful, sleek lines, but also that they are not a line too much. They were designed by an Italian, Bruno Sacco, and I find that they still look great. No line too much, and yet powerful.
I think that’s not the new E. seen From the front, he looks high and narrow. The lines around the grille are a mess; it seems as if the designer was shot when he came to the line of the bonnet over the headlights and the grille drew. And about the headlights, which seem to be designed by an ADHD’er that to the speed. The parking sensors seem random at the front gekwakt, where the copies in the middle of the grotesque holes in the bumper are the most striking, also because they are so large that they are a significant part concluded they could continue.
Where you used to reassure a minister could carry in a W123 or W124, the blingblingwielen and the darkened rear windows of the W213 previously the king of the kanswijk. That whole design ends in a drooping ass, which is diagonally from the front the rear of the car seems to hang like a large backpack behind a freshman named. Seen from behind, that’s a little less, although this can also be because of your gaze even when the E 220 d to two grotesque exhaust is drawn, each large enough to contain a litter of puppies to make them disappear. Fortunately, you can see that everything on the inside is not, but there goes your gaze back to the lines on the doors just to start somewhere, and anywhere seem to stop, what is especially striking is the two-tone interior.
The cause? About it told designer Gorden Wagener in 2012, in the great book Masters of Modern Car Design: “In the ’80s produced Mercedes apart from the SL only three sedans, which is than ten years of life. Now, in our portfolio from 25 models, for which we are also AMG versions and options for them to individualize need to think about. Therefore, the detail now has become much more important. Today design we have everything – headlights, taillights, bumpers, mirrors, door handles and every part is a work of art in itself. That was in the 80’s to be different: a front bumper was then scarcely more than a chrome plated piece of steel, and at the headlights you had the choice between round or square.’
First of all, do Wagener, thus, the great models from the ’80s deficit: the iconic 190, the reputed W124 and the still beautiful R129 SL are not exactly models which afternoon is designed with a chrome plated piece of steel as a bumper. In addition, he also inadvertently see what the problem is from Mercedes: if a modern Mercedes not a converted Renault, it is a runaway kind of design-ADHD. The old Benzes were: ‘Hey, let’s go for a million kilometers away and then I see there are still timeless.” The new models have a totally different appearance: “I do pain in your eyes, but if you have a fun weekend, want to have you should drink what my designer drank.’
The above Is a lament? Absolutely not. It is a call. Please go back Mercedi with a timeless look and which are suitable for a million miles. There are plenty of brands, including Volvo and Rolls-Royce, which show that even modern cars can build without that tangle of lines. In short, red Mercedes while you still can. I crank in the meantime, what occasionsites for a 190, a W124 or R129.
Gallery: Mercedes E-Class 2016
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