German Car Zone

The 5 series was a class leader since it's inception and that will continue with the next 5er! This one although wrapped in cladding already looks like it's destined for greatness!

Yes Dr. I believe BMW is going through this route. Resemblance between the lineup has increased significantly. Except maybe the Z4

^Which sucks.. and leads to the FACT that the Z4 is the only truely beautiful car from munich in a long long while...

Some are straight out ugly..
And some are pretty nice (X6 and 7er)

I would add E92/93 to your list of pretty BMW´s.Only really,really ugly BMW is current X3..other models are more or less good looking IMO .

Its not about resemblance but rather family face. You are recognisable as a eg. Jones or Smith cos you look like one. If you wanna crit a firm for using same sausage diff length then crit Audi. They're the worst offenders.

The Audi that really irritates me is the Q5. I can't understand how people can call it beautifull. Its one of the most boring bland looking cars on the road today, and its a smaller Q7.

Atleast we can say that the MB line up deversifies the most..

the resemblence between C,E,S, and the roadsters is faaaaar greater than the ones in the audi and bmw line up..
and on top of that you can still recognize each one of them as a MB
so i dont buy what the above poster says with the family face

This is simply because Mercedes Benz seems to change their design direction with nearly every model and has no chance to create design attributes apart from the obvious trademarks.

^ I think thats positive..they have plenty of trademarks..
So they shuffle things..and keep it fresh

I see it as a lot of indecision in the direction of the brands styling. However, the current retro-angular theme seems to be on track for a global product theme, E Class, E Class Coupe and SLS showing the way.

When we will see FEP 5 sedan ? Thanx