Mercedes introduces a Subaru Forester to attract the Lifestyles of the Rich and Lesbian.

@POLAR: That actually would probably be pretty good marketing on their part.

@FLB: Yes, I can just hear it now...
"I'm rich, I'm a Dyke, and I'm so over the hairy pits, Birkenstock, Forester stage!"

A million airbags.... wow those Germans are sooo thorough. Are these the itty-bitty little airbags positioned all the hundreds of microchips so they don't get bruised from bumpy driving? Can we pop them like bubble wrap? That would be so neat.

Mercedes styling is slowly (though not surely) getting back to what it should be: chunky, teutonic, bank-vault like. Of course, 2008 also requires an unfortunate helping of bling.

all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...

@long_live_the_E36: i don't know... this looks like a chrysler hangover to me.

@long_live_the_E36: That is what is commonly referred to as a "Galendawagen". THIS is NOT a "Galendawagen".

@camp6ell: Well I did say "slowly." Anyway, after completely losing it's design identity for most the 90's and 00's, who even knows what a modern Benz should look like?

@POLAR: Didn't you get the memo... rich and lesbian are usually contradictory, for some odd reason. Maybe all the disposable income goes to U-Haul rentals moving from girlfriend to girlfriend, and lesbians frequently have progeny to worry about ('cause they caught the lesbian bug later in life, I s'pose, after they'd already had a kid or two... ask Anne Heche for clarification on that phenomenon).

Don't get me wrong, I know rich lesbians, but I know ten times more working-class lesbians. They are NOT in the market for a MBZ SUV of any size.

This is a perfect example of the young designers of today doing way too much ecstasy. I know..for some of you it brings back (or should I say flashbacks)
memories of your own youth.

Those wheel spokes will age this faster than a meth-head.

More evidence that we're currently in the "malaise era" of automotive design.

Pimp my RAV4

@Charles_Barrett: Sure, dash out my dreams of rich lesbians abducting me and ravaging me in the back of their GLK.

@POLAR: Uh, wouldn't they be straight (or at least bi) then?

Also: If M-B would sell a C Class wagon with a 50-state legal version of that 2.2L diesel for $35k or so, they wouldn't be able to ship enough of them over. I mean, look at the prices of W123-body 300 TD wagons, the newest of which are now 23-years-old!

so why are they building the M class?
Why would they make this vehicle?

NUMBER_SIX wins.

This must be the most expensive Jeep Liberty ever.

Is it a surprise to anyone that the Daimler Chrysler divorce ended up leaving more than a few unwanted children?

Tis the bastard son of a Subaru and a transformer....frickin fugly tis is....

Maybe add some fake wood shelf paper on the sides for that "Bauren Baron" look.

Freeside?

I'm thinking Ford has already registered that model name.

I prefer to call this the "Freizeit," since that apparently better reflects M-B's engineers' workdays.

The wheels look useful for chopping apart aggressive rattlesnakes. This is one tough vehicle! All hail M-B Vision!

@Charles_Barrett: Ye-You mean the L-Word's got it all wrong then?!? My illusions!

@TomAnderson: Argh, More Reality! I'm glad I didn't see your post before nap time last night, it would've spoiled my dreams.

It looks like a Toyota.

doodoo, looks like a highlander to me.
no class with that one.

@TampaRon: It looks like a Highlander with a MB front end grafted on.