2019 Mercedes-Benz C 300 and AMG C 43 First Drive Review, Car News. Mercedes dreamt up the idea for the C-Class in 1974. It took eight years and hundreds of millions of dollars to translate that idea into the 1982 190 E. When introduced to the United States in 1993, Americans shunned it as "the poor man's Mercedes," and a journo at The Washington Post encapsulated the collective national consciousness' side-eye with, "It's not a real Mercedes. It's corporate pandering to the masses." Eight years later the C-Class would be the best-selling Mercedes in America. For the past 10 years, the compact sedan has been the best-selling model in the carmaker's global lineup. The last four years have been especially fruitful, the C-Class moving more than 400,000 units annually.

After perusing those numbers, we thought we'd made easy sense of the facelifted fifth-generation 2019 Mercedes-Benz C-Class. You need a loupe and a PowerPoint presentation to spot the bodywork changes. We figured the point of this facelift was not messing up a very good thing. But instead, Mercedes made a very good thing better, changing nearly 6,500 parts on the car in order to do it — roughly half the total component tally. That makes the 2019 C-Class the most comprehensive update in the nameplate's history.

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