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All future Mercedes will have styling their styling influenced by the F800 Style design concept, the firm's design boss Gorden Wagener has revealed.

Speaking to Autocar at the launch of the F800, Wagener revealed said the F800's front end will feature on all future Mercedes, starting with this year's next-generation CLS.

Wagener also said all future Mercedes would come with LED daytime lights as standard, although the light's "expression" would not be aggressive.

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this is a stunning design! i may well be a future merc owner if this is the way forward. i just hope the quality issues that plagued models in the last decade have been sorted out

Absolutely stunning- both the car and the news of Merc's design direction. If only Audi could have such an epiphany...

At last, something interesting to look at, maybe not thoroughly beautiful, but interesting. Folks at BMW and AUDI take notice!!

But this new design is still far too fussy.  Like the current E class it displays a riot of swage lines sweeping all over the place.  I don't consider Mercedes to have much of a design heritage because so many previous designs missed the mark, often being quite ill-proportioned, like the truncated current C class and many of the previous E classes.  Mercedes' best efforts probably started in the late sixties with the pagoda roof SL.  I could also mention the exceptionly neat 190E, the previous S class and the one a couple of versions before that. Simpler detailing and more elegant proportions is what Mr Wagener should be striving for.

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But this new design is still far too fussy.  Like the current E class it displays a riot of swage lines sweeping all over the place.  I don't consider Mercedes to have much of a design heritage because so many previous designs missed the mark, often being quite ill-proportioned, like the truncated current C class and many of the previous E classes.  Mercedes' best efforts probably started in the late sixties with the pagoda roof SL.  I could also mention the exceptionly neat 190E, the previous S class and the one a couple of versions before that. Simpler detailing and more elegant proportions is what Mr Wagener should be striving for.

Hear hear!

 I wonder what the DRLs will be like on this "assured and sophisticated look" - I'm guessing nothing like an Audi then.

Perhaps they will introduce arrow shaped indicators so that outside lane hoggers could see the appoaching Benz in their mirrors and know that an "assured and sophisticated" driver would like them to move over.........