Just showed my parents the design (we've got the W220 and the one before as well [don't remember the chassis designation]). He said he might not go for the W221. Maybe an Audi (my recomendation) or a BMW 7 Series facelift (don't know when it's due in Europe though, or is it already out?). Sad to say that Mercedes is going down hill like this. Now all they car about is the money, and not the prestige. Back in the days, any merc that you would have owned would have meant you were a big shot, but now they have the A, B, C, E, S, SL, SLK, CL, CLK, CLS classes, which is just too broad a range of price ranges. It's a bit like saying Rolls Royce, or Bentley, made a cheaper car (somewhere in the 60 - 80k US$ range), which would also suck. I'm very disappointed by Mercedes, and I used to love them
