2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Brochure Shot Leaked? We'd Say Nein and here's why...

With the Paris Motor Show just around the corner, you'd think that the interwebs would have something better to do than embrace wild rumors such as the Toyota FT-86 sport sedan - seriously, now.... But that's not the only story making the rounds on the web today. Several sites have posted the above photo claiming its some sort of leaked brochure shot of the facelifted / new / redesigned etc, etc, version of the Mercedes-Benz B-Class. We have three reasons to believe it's a photoshop hoax. Click through to check them out one by one...

Sources: Edmunds & Autoweek.nl

Exhibit A: 2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Picture

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Exhibit B: Current Mercedes-Benz B-Class photos from the firm's UK site

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Exhibit C: Page 32 from the Mercedes-Benz B-Class price list, again found on the company's UK site

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Allegedly official photo of redesigned Mercedes-Benz B-Class

2012 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Brochure Shot Leaked? We'd Say Nein and here's why...

With the Paris Motor Show just around the corner, you'd think that the interwebs would have something better to do than embrace wild rumors such as the Toyota FT-86 sport sedan - seriously, now.... But that's not the only story making the rounds on the web today. Several sites have posted the above photo claiming its some sort of leaked brochure shot of the facelifted / new / redesigned etc, etc, version of the Mercedes-Benz B-Class. We have three reasons to believe it's a photoshop hoax. Click through to check them out one by one...

Sources: Edmunds & Autoweek.nl

Exhibit A: 2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class Picture

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Exhibit B: Current Mercedes-Benz B-Class photos from the firm's UK site

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Exhibit C: Page 32 from the Mercedes-Benz B-Class price list, again found on the company's UK site

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Allegedly official photo of redesigned Mercedes-Benz B-Class

Mercedes To Abandon Plans For Next-Generation A & B-Class?

According to a report from the German financial newspaper Wirtschafts Woche, Daimler-no-more-Chrylser has scrapped its plans to introduce a successor to the MPV-like A & B-Class hatches in 2011. Instead, Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche is said to have given the o.k for an all new sporty compact hatch in order to compete head on with the sportier Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series models. -Continued after the jump

Wirtschafts Woche notes that the new sporty hatch could also spawn a compact coupe as replacement for the somewhat larger, C-class based, Sportcoupé. Even though the German newspaper doesn’t say it, we’re guessing that, unlike the current FWD A and B-Class models, all three versions of Mercedes’ compact model (3d, 5d and coupe) will make use of a rear-wheel drive biased platform.

Via: Autoblog.nl , Source: Wirtschafts Woche