{"id":483058,"date":"2010-03-28T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:46:30","slug":"2011-mercedes-benz-r-class-r350-%e2%80%93-auto-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/483058","title":{"rendered":"2011 Mercedes-Benz R-class \/ R350 \u2013 Auto Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2011_mercedes-benz_r-class_r350-auto_shows\/gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18011\" title=\"2011-Mercedes-Benz-R350-blog\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2011-Mercedes-Benz-R350-blog-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"2011-Mercedes-Benz-R350-blog\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mercedes tries to de-van the un-vannable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A freshened 2011 Mercedes-Benz R-class will show its new face at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/shows\/2010_new_york_auto_show\">2010 New York auto show<\/a>, displaying some much-needed SUV-ish masculinity in the form of a new nose with a taller hood, deeper, wider grille, revised lower fascia with LED driving lamps, and wider-looking headlights replacing the vertical almonds from the original. (Of course, this sounds a bit like when GM stuck a truckish snout on its Venture minivan architecture and created the Uplander. Fortunately, the result here is nowhere near as hideous.) The R\u2019s taillamps are now ribbed, sandwich-style stacks typical of most Mercedes models, perched above a new, more intricately detailed rear bumper. Otherwise, exterior changes are minimal compared with the <a href=\"http:\/\/buyersguide.caranddriver.com\/mercedes-benz\/r-class\/2010\/mercedes-benz-r-class\">2010 R-class<\/a>. Ditto the R-class\u2019s spacious, six- or seven-passenger interior.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17609\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q1\/2011_mercedes-benz_r-class_r350-auto_shows\">2011 Mercedes-Benz R-class \/ R350 &#8211; Auto Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/shows\/2010_new_york_auto_show\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17480\" title=\"Return to the 2010 New York Auto Show\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Return-to-the-2010-New-York-Auto-Show-Full-01-440x62.jpg\" alt=\"Return to the 2010 New York Auto Show\" width=\"440\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2010-mercedes-benz-gl-class-gl350-bluetec-gl450-gl550-auto-shows\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2010 Mercedes-Benz GL-class \/ GL350 BlueTec \/ GL450 \/ GL550 &#8211; Auto Shows'>2010 Mercedes-Benz GL-class \/ GL350 BlueTec \/ GL450 \/ GL550 &#8211; Auto Shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2009-mercedes-benz-e-class-e-guard-auto-shows\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2009 Mercedes-Benz E-class E-Guard &#8211; Auto Shows'>2009 Mercedes-Benz E-class E-Guard &#8211; Auto Shows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2010-mercedes-benz-ml450-hybrid-auto-shows\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid &#8211; Auto Shows'>2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid &#8211; Auto Shows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes tries to de-van the un-vannable. A freshened 2011 Mercedes-Benz R-class will show its new face at the 2010 New York auto show, displaying some much-needed SUV-ish masculinity in the form of a new nose with a taller hood, deeper, wider grille, revised lower fascia with LED driving lamps, and wider-looking headlights replacing the vertical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}