I feel a little better today.
The two pictures shown in these threads, no doubt computer generated,(Rosich and FL116) are really quite depressing. I suspect that like me, every one must have felt that they have been let down by Mercs. Today I have seen a number of other pictures- equally shiney-and I now know that the lights are not going to be pointy at the upper and lower ends but more like those of Maybauch's, that the car looks nothing like a ford focus, that the wheels are going to be 19 inh, although the size is staying unchanged the wheel base will be extended slightly, that an expert on navigation systems has been head hunted from Audi, that Bang Olafson iare contibuting to the dash board design and that the car will be a technological marvel.
I feel that from now my objections should be less robust and my attitude a little supple.