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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:23 AM

I'm pretty confident that the non-AMG pics are the real item. The ML63 pics are very suspect, which I don't get. Since when did we have to worry about the intergrity of WCF?

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:24 AM

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Are we sure there not all photoshop???
For some reason i think 1st pic ain't a PS...

If WCF posted this claiming the source is Daimler AG, but actually someone fooled them big time, then... I don't know, their credibility goes down the toilette.

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:29 AM

I think the ML63 pics are the only suspect ones...the others (for better or worse) look like the real deal. The interior is the real thing too. That steering wheel couldn't have come from anywhere else but MB headquarters!

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:30 AM

I like it alot.

Love the new front, much more powerful and distinctive.

The new rear bumper is okay. But I would have preferred darker taillamps. The white bar would be better in darker grey, and the red is a bit flashy...but it could come from the quality of the pic.

The interior looks better, in fact it is the one of the GL: wood above the glovebox, Artico "man-made leather" on the dash, and on the door panels. So it is the end of the ugly plastic-door panels, the biggest flaw in ML's interior for me.

I like this FL. Makes the ML even more attractive. The new wheels are cooler, too.

The AMG, on the other hand...Awful. I did not like the pre-FL AMG, but this one is clearly even much worse...Aftermarket crappy kit.
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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:31 AM

I bet my right arm this is a PS:



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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:33 AM

I like it too, but there isn't enough detail about interior features...yet. They gave the previous ML the same chin adjustment during its facelift. The ML350 doesn't get the new V6 either, I don't get that. It has Pre-Safe now so that is a plus. Need to see more pics though! The ML63 does look like a bit of a mess here though. Definitely need to see more pics of it.

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:35 AM

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I bet my right arm this is a PS:




Now that I look at it, it might be. It does have the grainy look to it. Either their all PS or just incredibly lousy pictures? Either way I can't believe WCF. You used to be able to trust anything they posted "officially".

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:37 AM

The interior is super-grainy, no way it's official. May be a GL's with W212 steering... But I think the real deal will be exactly like that.

The AMG clearly are all PS.

The black one Tyc is showing is a PS too, I think. The chromed area under the bumper is not clear and looks suspicious. The grille too, and the area on the ground clearance of the car is clearly grainy...Like a badly erased thing... Also, the tyres seems to be 1555 , not 265 wide here.
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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:40 AM

Well there may be hope that it is real afterall then...yippie for regular ML, not so great for the ML63.

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Re: Official: ML Facelift - 03-13-2008, 07:47 AM

Well the non-AMG seems to be real, at least the silver are imo the real deal. And the interior, I think it's real too, how could they create such a steering? We all see it comes from the W212, but the chrome bits..

I think the interior is real too, new radio-system, new steering and GL dash/doorpanels. It's just not really official, for me it comes from a small official pic, maybe intended for the advert book.

The AMG is clearly PS, but I think it's very close if not identical to the real, or maybe are the PS coming from MB themselves! I already saw PS in advert books...

For me, even if some pics are PS, all this is real and is 100% the real deal.

WCF can't publish pics, claiming they are official from Daimler, if they are not. That's legally impossible, and deadly for their credibility.
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