Kuan, after you hold your breath for a few days, would you mind exhaling and explaining how they differ. The reason I ask this of you is that my Mom bought a new 2001 C230 Kompressor. It's major virtue is that it has plenty of scoot. In terms of butt-experience driving, to me feels like a Honda. (It has about 22K miles. Mom has never been especially happy with it but Mrs B thinks it would be the Cat's Pajamas to own it. Mom would rather have a car with a heavy turbo boost and fewer gizmos).

I have seen a couple of the higher-end C classes around my town and the upper end C class cars have really attractive exterior conformation. My problem is that I know next to nothing about them. Is it fair to compare them to an E Class or an S Class? If not, what auto line would you compare the C to?

I saw a recent CLS 550 that I thought was approaching the W126 in paradigmatic design. What I mean is that the CLS is unique and elegant. To me, that is a very laudable achievement in form. Does the CLS function follow the form or vice-versa?

Anybody? anybody? Beuller?

B