Source: Autocar via carspyshots.tk

 

 

another SUV for the mass of yuppies.....hooray

 

I looks like all the other MB SUV's.

 

too many cars aheaheae go back to like 5 models per manufacturer hard to remember every single one.....

 

Oh gee... Another SUV

 

If it's car-based, it's just a tall station wagon.

No need to jump off bridges

 

Smaller than a M? Rav-4 size? Gay. Benz needs to really stick to the upmarket and to hell with the masses.

 

not feeling it...pretty ugly

 

oooh snap merc has sooo many models

 

This is going to be the next segment in SUV's: luxury cute ute's.....we have the X3 and Freelander, soon the Acura RDX, the X-class (if true), Volvo XC50 and probably more....I wouldn't suprised to see Lexus bring a rebadged Rav4 and maybe a Lincoln escape

 

sh!t is ugly

 

:thumbsdn:

Anyone actually see the new X3 in person?

 

Way to many SUVs from Merc... and two to many doors on that CLS.

 

it looks fine, but with a name like the X class it needs to be huge. any word on the R class?

 

I dunno, look like a crappy version of their current crappy suv that is bringing them down in reliability and x sounds like lawsuit.

 

Great another worthless SUV.

 

I am so excited!!!

 

What's crazy is, this thing will sell. It'll basically be a fight between this thing and the X3 for a small, premium SUV with a luxo name.

 

Personally, I'm getting tired of ALL these damn suvs.

 

cool another mercedes minivan. Nice styling MB.

 

I'll take this tall wagon over a minivan or a C-wagon

 

its like an ml, but id take it over an X3, the x3 is nasty

 

Ditto. The X3 looks like ass.

 

Same here, even Honda CRV looks better than that X3 crap.

 

Source: Autobild.de

 

Source: carpassion.com

 

looks like a toyota echo hatchback. ill take an x3 over that

 

How the fuck can u make a decision like that? it's covered up! The X3 is gross

 

im talkin bout that middle pic that isnt covered up bish

 

That is a PHOTOSHOP of a toyota Matrix

 

Mercedes-Benz is planning its response to the BMWX3. Running under the working title MLK-Class, the new smaller than M class (ML500, et al.) sport.utility will be built on Mercede's next-generation C-Class beginning in the 2007 calendar year. Like the MLK, the next generation midsize M-Class will be on a unibody platform ( the M-Class switches ofom the current truck's body on frame platform.) The compact MLK will be built only in Europe, where Mercedes expects to find more buyers because of the new SUV's tidy size. Small, elegant SUVs look like the Next Big Thing in the Old World. Because of its C-Class roots, we can expect the MLK to come with the new four valve 3.0 liter and 3.5 liter V-6's in the U.S. as well as a supercharged four and turbodiesel for the home market. If Mercedes continues its rampant proliferation of AMG marketing, an MLK55 AMG isn't out of the question. As for the name, it makes sense in Europe, with the connection to SLK-Class and CLK-Class. But here, those initials are the same as those of the late civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Another rumored name, X-Class is out because of the BMW X3 and X5.

-Illustration by Mark Stehrenberger

Source: Motortrend

 

:whocares: What difference does that make?

 

^ It's called respect.

 

how is that disrepectful?

 

It's not disrespect, but they don't want to be associated w/ a person so buyers aren't confused (they might think it's a tribute or something...wheter it is or it isn't.)

 

Yeah, I guess you're right, but that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. I would've never associated the two unless it was pointed out...and I couldn't care less about the issue. Sad that this is what society has come to.

 

 

The pic ^ looks more like a wagon than an SUV.

 

Reminds me of a Rav 4