Thread: GLK vs X3
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      05-12-2011, 11:13 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Shaw View Post
Personal Opinion: ALL Mercedes cars have a TERRIBLE looking interior!!!
By the way, this is a relative comparison between high end cars and not low/average... (I'm not comparing the M-B with a Chevi for example...)
When rating the interior, one must look at several factors: Design, simplicity and accessibility, high features (despite having simple design), luxury & comfort, beauty and harmony in compliance to the exterior.
I'd say among all these, M-B might have a chance at the comfort (and partly luxury).
I found the cockpit very complicated and unharmonised, too many buttons and sophisticated for a new design (remember, high features doesn't mean sophistication!)
then again that's a personal opinion and for others it may be different...
Beauty is absolutely not there...
Even in other models on M-B, I find the exterior nice (CL, SL and SLS have better extriors than the rest) but then once you see the interior....
well like you said "personal opinion" see I love the seats on their AMG models, better tham BMW Ms in my opinion, and to a driver seats and steering wheel are two huge factors in judging a car's interior. I also like how mercedes has the seat adjustments on the door, much easier to access than on the seat (but how often do you adjust that, not very often). Looking at my dad's M3 compared to my C63 interior, I don't think it looks any better, its not like it jumps out at me like wow now this is really nice and the Mercedes is blah, I think both are sort of blah,

I have never looked at any other mercedes like E or S class interior to compare them with Audi or BMW of the same level so I can't comment on those.
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