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Originally Posted by NewMB  Thanks for sharing the link. Must have missed it in the latest issue. Most of the changes are minor tweaks, which is good IMHO. Personally, I like most of them; the "split lip," however, is going to take a little getting used to. At least they didn't go the route of the new Audis; I still have a hard time looking at the front end of those cars. I think that this evolutionary level of changes indicates that, overall, MB feels it has a pretty solid design with the 171. What it also means is that those of us who have earlier versions won't feel like our cars are seriously "outdated." For that, I'm grateful. |
I agree here.... Overall I think they have done sufficient work to suggest that this design will stay around for a while yet which is great news for us. It would hardly have been worth the work if they were to bring a brand new version in 18 months.
As far as the details of the current facelift, I think that the lower lip looks striking on the white car shown, but will be virtually unnoticable on darker coloured cars. Do not like the new exhaust though, looks far more modest that the current tips. And those wing mirrors are NOT pretty!