pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/spyphotos/" rel="tag"Spy Photos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/suvs/" rel="tag"SUVs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/wagons/" rel="tag"Wagons/Estates/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/crossovers-cuvs/" rel="tag"Crossovers/CUVs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/" rel="tag"Mercedes-Benz/a/pa href="http://globalmotors.net/why-mercedes-benz-gives-r-class-a-facelift/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/r-class_fclft.jpg" //aThe R-Class a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/03/red-dot-special-mercedes-r-class-wins-design-award/"won a design award/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2005/08/26/mercedes-r-class-official-car-of-the-rolling-stones-tour/"went on tour with the Rolling Stones/a, was a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/13/mercedes-takes-r-class-down-a-notch/"dropped in price/a, and still sold so poorly that a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/15/mercedes-admits-r-class-was-a-failure/"Mercedes admitted the car was a failure/a. Yet M-B head man Dieter Zetsche said the car isn't going away, so as one does with continuing product, the R-Class is getting some face and tail work done. Those who whisper about such things indicate that the car will end up looking more like the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/17/mercedes-gives-b-class-a-facelift-natural-gas/"B-Class/a. We're not sure that will help it, since it looks much like the B-Class already and that car isn't exactly a looker, either. We think the R might be better served if Mercedes could explain why anyone should choose it over the E-Class wagon or GL-Class SUVs... and when the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/03/pics-aplenty-mercedes-benz-glk-vision-glk-freeside/"GLK/a arrives, well, good luck to you, R-Class.br /br /[Source: a href="http://globalmotors.net/why-mercedes-benz-gives-r-class-a-facelift/"Global Motors/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com"img src="http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Autoblog" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/spy-shots-r-class-facelift/"Spy Shots: R-Class facelift/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://globalmotors.net/why-mercedes-benz-gives-r-class-a-facelift/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/spy-shots-r-class-facelift/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1353309/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/27/spy-shots-r-class-facelift/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=sR5tSf"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=sR5tSf" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=LoaXm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=LoaXm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=ukevm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=ukevm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/433634762" height="1" width="1"/