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Once again making a huge contribution to the forum. Thank you Christian.

I still find the elegance with a good set of alloys more visually appealing than the avantgarde (it's just so elegant lol), though the avantgarde with the AMG package takes the cake.

One dissapointing aspect is that choosing the elegance means you miss out on the awesome new interior colour combinations being offered on the avantgarde.

Also, it seems like a lot of the electronic features will only be made available later on (distronic plus being a major one, Nightvision and also no word on a rear view camera just yet?). Obviously MB is scared shitless about poor reliability reports and is delaying these for the time being.

I am also interested to know - though Christian's previous comment was that the quality was really good, but not class-leading. I'm still quite sceptical.

The Avantgarde one is really hot from outside but the inside is not that great especially with absence of leather.

Great report Wimmer. Judging my the people in the pictures you seem to have been the youngest person at the dealer. Bad sign

This is not completely correct.
Nevertheless people at the age of 20 - 30 are very rare at Mercedes dealer. Maybe you can find them at the next Audi or BMW dealer...

The presentation started at 9:00 AM, I came around 10:00 AM because my mom's dishwasher broke down and she wanted me to try and fix it (as if I know how to fix that thing!?). The salesmen were always around to answer questions and try to make a sale. I talked to one of them, a Mr. Preuss, and asked him how the car drove. This guy, along with the other salesmen went to Spain and drove all versions of the new W204 C-Class: Classic, Elegance and Avantgarde and all current engine choices. This guy loved the Avantgarde version, naturally and praised the C220 CDI for spirited performance. It's got 170-hp now so it is pretty quick indeed. Overall, I just tended to walk around, take pics, check out the cars, and later have a beer with some Bavarian roast chicken.

You already Thanked me, so the karma won't work if you thanked a person and then want to give them karma. You need to spread some karma before it will work again on the person you thanked before.

Anytime.

I am also surprised that there was no C-Class with an AMG kit, especially when they had two Avantgarde C-Classes there. One of them could have at least been equipped with an AMG body kit. Either way, the regular Avantgarde looks really good. Wait until you see this thing in real life.

Anytime.

6'4" in height or 192 cm. Yep, I am a big son of a *****.

Hey Eni,

Yep, I spoke to a couple of people there. While I was checking out the dark grey C220 CDI Avantgarde, an elderly couple slid into the rear seats and they soon began talking to me. They own an 1998 E230 (W210) E-Class with almost every option and they said they'd never trade in that car for this current C-Class. I asked them why and they stated that it was roomy, comfortable and it has leather seats. I told them that the C-Class could be ordered with leather but they still kept insisting that their W210 E-Class was better. I think they were kind of senile.

An old man I met told me he owns a W203 C180 Kompressor and he likes the car, but he wants to upgrade to a W204 C-Class with a V6, probably C280. I told him that there will probably be a C230 (2.5 V6) and this sparked his interest even more. His reasons for the change from a 4-cylinder to a V6 was the fact that he found the C180 Kompressor to be a bit loud at higher speeds on the Autobahn. I've driven a C200 Kompressor (W203) on the Autobahn and it is pretty loud at 200 km/h+, even at 160-180 km/h.

Most people liked the Elegance version, from what I saw and heard. The local driving school boss was at hand to check out the Classic C200 Kompressor W204. He probably wants to replace the C200 CDI 6-speed Fahrschulwagen he currently has.

Most of the visitors were older people, but there were also many people in their late 20s and 30s, especially couples with children. A lot of people also stopped by for the "free food and beer" (you paid 0.50 cents for a beer and 2.00 Euros for half a chicken!) and were hardly interested in the C-Class.

Most people I overheard talking loved the exterior. I generally heard zero criticisms about this aspect of the car. What people didn't like was the small space at the rear and the " spartan interior". I heard a lot of people think the interior was lacking a little something. Most people compared the interior to that of the BMW 3-Series: both very spartan, according to them.

Got to go eat now. BRB ASAP.

No problem. If I find one, I will.