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Old 05-01-2007, 03:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Now I try the C320 CDI Elegance and it all falls into place. This is more the proper Mercedes-Benz and less the BMW tribute, not least because you can aim it via the star gun sight on the bonnet.

The softer suspension gives a more pillowy ride - it's extremely comfortable - but this Benz still stays composed through corners and its thee-litre, 168kW, turbodiesel V6 is as muscularly magnificent as ever. Here's the new C-Class in its optimum form.

There are other forms but we haven't been able to try them yet. The range will begin with the launch with two four-cylinder cars, a supercharged, 1.8-litre, C200 Kompressor (now with 138kW) and a C220 CDI, and there's a three-litre, V6 C280 as well as the two cars here tested.

Some models will be available as manuals but hardly anyone will buy them, given the C-Class's perverse, foot-operated parking brake.

They will be joined even later by a C180 Kompressor, a C230 V6 and a C200 CDI, and a V8-engined C63 AMG, plus estate cars and coupés.

Oh, and the entry-level models are no longer called Classic. They are now SE, which may be a dig at BMW, which applies those initials to posh versions. Yes, it's the clash of the Teutons again.
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Oh, and the entry-level models are no longer called Classic. They are now SE...


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Oh, and the entry-level models are no longer called Classic. They are now SE...

HUH???
This is probably because for different countries, they call the different packages different names!

For some weird reason, in the UK, there is the SE, Elegance and Sport lines!
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This is probably because for different countries, they call the different packages different names!

For some weird reason, in the UK, there is the SE, Elegance and Sport lines!
Yep!

DCUK has decided to simplify the trim levels for the new C-Class in the UK market

Classic = SE
Elegance = Elegance
Avantgarde = Sport (comes with AMG bodykit, alloy wheels etc as standard)
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They should have just left it at Classic, Elegance and Avantgarde.
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