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Field Test Mercedes C-Class: What the Facelift Brings to the Gasoline Model

From Peter Weißenberg/SP-X | Translated by AI 6 min Reading Time

Mercedes has significantly redesigned the C-Class halfway through its product cycle. Compared to its recently unveiled all-electric sibling, the 206 series retains a significant advantage.

The current generation of the Mercedes C-Class is about five years old and, with this facelift, is now entering the second half of its life cycle.(Image: Mercedes-Benz AG)
The current generation of the Mercedes C-Class is about five years old and, with this facelift, is now entering the second half of its life cycle.
(Image: Mercedes-Benz AG)

The door clicks shut, and the blond business traveler leans back in his 190, breathing a sigh of relief. Thirty-six years ago, Mercedes staged this final scene in a commercial set at a bustling airport in North Africa. Voiceover: “Welcome home.” Mercedes is now evoking precisely this promise of the first “Baby-Benz” with the redesigned C-Class, model series 206. After all, internal-combustion engines still have a lot to defend, especially in the business car segment. Since 1982, Mercedes has sold twelve million of these midsize cars.

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