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Look past the Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive concept's LED head and taillampsand fancy flush doorhandles and you're looking at what a likely S-Class production convertible will look like. Names for the famous strip of road on South beach, the Ocean Drive would fit right in with the beautiful people and the high-end cars known to prowl the area.

Based on the V12-powered, long-wheelbase S 600 sedan, the Ocean Drive concept gets an oversized grille (we like) and retains its source car's four doors. the side glass is frameless, and there are no pillars to interrupt the lines when the car is open to the sky. A traditional, large soft-top protects occupants in sub-optimal weather conditions, and the car introduces a neck-warming technology called AIRSCARF. Nifty indeed. Build it.



















Source: Autoblog

IM SPEECHLESS !!!

All I can say is, what the hell is going on at Mercedes-Benz's design studio?

I am now totally confused about Mercedes design direction -- where have the recent design cues gone? ...MB made such a big deal about its new styling and then produces a concept that looks more like a VAG product.


This concept looks like the bastard child of a disastrous encounter between a Bentley and a Cadillac.

It has the rear of the Azure and the profile styling of a Continental GT -- Mercedes is definitely not the design leader it used to be.

I agree with you, Rob. This looks like everything except MB...

Plus the idea of S convertible... Maybe that was good in the past, but today i cannot imagine a convertible S... Whatever...

reminds me of this

And what about those rims? How do you people like 'em? Me? Horrible, just like those that we've already seen when they presented both new S and CL...

I'm not sure what to make of it. It's a novel idea but where MB's execution is concerned, I agree with Rob 100%.

mmmm, looks like more expensive than the S class, i think it should've been a Maybach rather than a Merc

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I got my Auto Motor und Sport today and this car was featured in it. Although it still looks like a Mercedes, the design is incredibly futuristic and clean. I really like it so far. To me, it looks like the next-generation S-Class.

The front headlights is probably the only thing that bother me at the moment. Overall though, it's looking good.

Also, some of you have complained about the design: it looks like a Mercedes-Benz still. Peter Pfeiffer, the design boss at Mercedes-Benz was quoted as saying in today's Auto Motor und Sport:

"Wir dürfen niemals still stehen, sondern müssen immer weiter nach vorne denken."

"We must never stand still, we must always think ahead."

In my lines above, I said that I think this car looks a like a futuristic version of the Mercedes S-Class. This would go hand in hand with what Mr. Pfeiffer said. "Thinking ahead".