Very interesting.

Big points to Honda for the aerodynamics of the front end. Very smooth - this is almost a resurrection of the old Accord Aerodeck.

It's very clean - an open challenge, I'd submit, to what today's designers have been calling "lumps and bumps" ever since the '96 Taurus: the openly emotive, bulbous bodywork of newer cars.

That said, there's a somewhat bulbous resolution of tension to the rear end - the thicker C-pillar was to be expected, given the upward-sloping flanks, but perhaps not quite as much.

Neat wrapping of the rear glass; the A-Class has dropped this expensive feature with the second-generation.