The new E-class...

Mercedes has gone mad with designs during the last years, the new A-class, the S-class, the M-class, the V-class, the GL-class and the B-class, all have crazy modern shapes full of angles, but two years ago they reached the top of their madness when they released the new C-class, it's a nice car but it's shiny and very revolting. People won't think you're a nice man if you park this kind of cars on a main street.

However, Mercedes-Benz realized they designed a somehow ugly car, so they decided the best thing to do is to make another one: the new E-class. Now, we have to remember that from all the Mercs we are most likely to be driven in are e-classes: most hotel cars are e-classes, big taxis in some arab countries are e-classes, it's a very popular car in and outside the middle east. This new one has a new design, a new engine... and new performances.

It has a new variety of engines, including the new Mercedes-Benz BlueTech hybrid, the engines have power from 137 to 525 horsepower, not much but none mentioned how much power there'll be in the AMG versions. It has less CO2 emissions than all its rivals and the E 350 BlueTech's emissions are even below the demands of the EU6 program of 2014.

The interior is very nice, they did something between the S-class and the C-class, the result is a really beautiful piece of design. It seems like Mercedes-Benz is back on precision and quality after the crisis in the early 2000s, well, they had to cut their profits by 66.6% to achive that.

In conclusion, the new e-class is a very good choice as a rival for the audi A6 or a Jag, it may have a crampted design but that's the way with modern European cars, especially German cars: ugly when they're released, but always getting better with time. I remember saying that the new S-class is very ugly and worse than the previous one, a year or so after and I considered it one of the best cars ever to be released.