They criticised the recently-revealed electric Mercedes GLC, as seen at the Munich motor show. Proclaimed to be the return of the ‘big grille’ look for Mercedes, it ended up looking a bit like an elephant wearing Groucho Marx ‘tache and glasses. It’s hard to make a big, upright, classic Mercedes grille work in a modern shape.
Or so we thought, right up to the point where Mercedes revealed, at an event in Shanghai, the Vision Iconic. This is every inch the wild concept car, but also a massive, illuminated signpost to the look of the next-generation S-Class.
That new S-Class will — as with the GLC and the incoming new C-Class — be all-electric, and built on Merc’s high-tech new MB.EA platform, and it should be on sale by 2028. It will be accompanied by a heavily updated version of the current, combustion S-Class, just so that Mercedes can hedge its bets against any continuing resistance to electric cars by that tim
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