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Mercedes-Benz has deftly redefined its mid-size offerings with the addition of a new E-Class option; the new E Coupe and Cabriolet are larger than outgoing CLK duo they essentially replace, and the Cabriolet has a trick up its sleeve.

The E-Class family will now soon be available in sedan, coupe, cabriolet, and wagon bodystyles.

In a notably short (particularly in the current economic environment) period of time, Mercedes-Benz has all but completely revamped its E-Class lineup.

The convertible variant is scheduled to arrive at dealerships May 2010.

Exterior

Those familiar with the current E-class will find very little surprising about the exterior styling on the cabriolet. Overall, the vehicle has a strong presence and solid stance.

The pronounced creases in the surfacing exude quality and refinement. It maintains its teutonic reservations, but appears quite confident and reassuring with a forward cant to the overall directionality of character and parting lines.

An exercise in subtlety, the rocker's forward light catch is cleanly derived from the door shut line.

A body color tonneau/rear head restraint fairing furthers the lux-market feel of the car.

Rather than add the complexity and cost of a hard top, Mercedes has swathed the folding top with fabric–is this a touch of traditionalism?

The new-face E lamps, grill, and fogs are welcome. The tiny hockey-stick-shaped fog lamp elements may present a bit of whimsy, but combining them with the aggressive angles of the headlamps and markers makes for a unique DRG.

A possible failing in the graphics department is the tail lamp design; whilethe detailing is at (perhaps only barely) an acceptable level, there is a resemblance to contemporaries from Hyundai and Toyota.

This may be just a chicken-or-egg argument, but the similarity is undeniable and can't be pleasing to anyone in the Daimler camp.

Interior

A strong focus was put on making this a usable, comfortable driver with an emphasis on counteracting the usual caveats of convertibles–soft and hard top alike.

Innovations like the AirCap and the familiar AirScarf ensure that this will be what Mercedes refers to as "a 4-seater for all 4 seasons".

During top-down cruising, the AirScarf will keep your neck warm while the AirCap keeps cabin turbulence and noise in check.

Initial reactions to seeing the AirCap in action will be mixed as it isn't the most handsome of devices, though there's little doubt that it will perform its duties admirably.

Protruding from the top of the windshield frame, it appears to serve as a windbreak that works in conjunction with a not unusual-looking screen between the rear headrests to create a pocket of calm air in the passenger compartment.

At the time of its introduction to the US market, only two engines will be made available.

The E350 will be powered by a 268HP 3.5-liter V6; opting for the 382HP 5.5-liter V8 will earn you the E550 badge.

(Source: Mercedes-Benz)

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The New Mercedes-Benz

• Comfortable: AIRCAP® automatic draught-stop plus AIRSCARF®
• Quiet: acoustic soft top as standard
• Safe: robust roll-over protection and new headbags

The highly attractive and emotionally charged Cabriolet is the latest addition to the successful Mercedes-Benz E-Class line-up. The open-top two-door model, which goes on sale on 11 Jan 2010, features a classic fabric soft top, making for a stylistically pure equipage feeling. Viewed from the side, the newborn support is an intriguing proposal – with its clear proportions and a flawless equipage silhouette.

In keeping with the motto "four seasons, quaternary personalities", all-year-round suitability was correct at the crowning of the developers' list of priorities. With the infant E-Class Cabriolet, the equipment form lasts the full assemblage because, while some cabriolets tend to finish from the anchorage of Western aggregation in the autumn, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet (length/breadth/height: 4698/1786/1402 mm) provides driving pleasure and comfort whether the roof is unstoppered or closed.

New features include:

• The AIRCAP® automatic draught-stop: ever on authorisation and easily manageable at the near of a button, it reduces turbulence substantially for all four seat occupants
• The restricted AIRSCARF® neck-level vaporisation system
• The acoustic fleecy crowning fitted as standard

The soft crowning can be opened and closed fully automatically within 20 seconds – modify when driving at speeds of up to 40 km/h. The equipment roof is stowed in a primary compartment behind the side panel. A retractable counterbalance separates the soft crowning compartment from the festinate area; it must be closed in visit to near the soft top. If the roof is to rest closed, the counterbalance can be slid rearwards, in which housing the festinate power is increased by 90 litres to 390 litres. A through-loading feature is included as standard for the newborn Cabriolet, as is EASY-ENTRY – a manually

operated entry and opening aid for the side passengers.

The powerplants for the newborn E-Class Cabriolet are equally innovative: the newborn direct-injection diesel and petrol models combine efficiency with effortlessly crack noesis delivery. The exemplary, vocalist render consumption has not only been achieved because of the newborn engines, but also with a sort of applicatory measures. These include on-demand activation of the curb and render pumps, the ingest of tyres with vocalist rolling resistance and an alternator curb system which takes account of the current dynamical status and the vehicle's electrical noesis requirements, plus the crucial factor of complimentary aerodynamics. The Cabriolet's cd amount of 0.28 is the best in its class, marking a postscript of the E-Class success news in the earth of aerodynamics.
An overview of the engines:

1. E 220 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 125 kW (170 hp)
2. E 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 150 kW (204 hp)
3. E 350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 170 kW (231 hp)
4. E 200 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 135 kW (184 hp
5. E 250 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 150 kW (204 hp)
6. E 350 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY Cabriolet: 215 kW (292 hp)
7. E 500 Cabriolet: 285 kW (388 hp)

Less turbulence, easier to use: AIRCAP® is a world-first

In 1989, Mercedes-Benz introduced a world premiere in the shape of a draught-stop for the SL model series, followed in 2004 by the AIRSCARF® neck-level vaporisation system to further compound comfort in open-top models. Now comes another world-first: the AIRCAP® semiautomatic draught-stop, which can be activated at the push of a button, greatly reduces turbulence in the interior of the newborn Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet, creating a seafaring of warm air. It is also such easier to implement and use than customary draught-stops: there is no tricky installation, the digit individual lateral seats rest free and the Cabriolet's flowing lateral lines rest uninterrupted. AIRCAP® is thence a classic Mercedes innovation: functional, comfort-enhancing, elegant and safe.

AIRCAP® consists of two components: a wind deflector that can be extended by around sextet centimetres with a net in the windscreen inclose and a draught-stop between the rear seats.

The functions of the two components:

1. Elevation of the free flow above the interior
2. Net at the front increases the basic pressure in the interior
3. Draught-stop at the rear reduces the backflow

As well as enhancing dweller comfort and wellbeing, the reduction in pulling when AIRCAP® is reactive (it can be reactive at speeds of up to 160 rate and remains in ingest right up to the car's crowning speed) reduces the inland racket level – so passengers in all seats find it far easier to communicate.

The Cabriolet Comfort package includes AIRCAP® with AIRSCARF®. This patented system functions like an concealed scarf, which warms the occupants' head and neck areas. AIRSCARF® is integrated into the backrests of the face seats and provides warm expose finished outlets in the head restraints.
The Mercedes engineers hit modified this unique innovation specifically for the E-Class Cabriolet: in this model, an fitting wheel pivots the outlet nose upwards and downwardly by a total of 36 degrees over and above the nous restraint height adjustment, meaning that the driver and front traveller can enjoy the unique neck-level heating disregarding of how short or gangly they are.

Quiet, hearty and windproof: acoustic fleecy crowning fitted as standard

Thanks to its acoustic fleecy top, fitted as standard, modify the closed E-Class Cabriolet has digit of the quietest interiors in the segment for four-seater payment cabriolets with a fabric roof. The fleecy top's exceptionally high-quality detachment brings about a clearly noticeable reduction in the inland noise level compared to conventional fabric fleecy tops. Exterior noise caused by another vehicles and wind noise are therefore absorbed more effectively. On the road, the disagreement is audible from speeds of just 80 km/h, for example when dynamical finished a tunnel or overtaking a convoy of trucks. At higher speeds, the benefits of the acoustic fleecy crowning are modify more tangible. For instance, it is possible to hit a perfectly normal sound conversation in hands-free mode modify when travelling at a speed of over 200 km/h.
The fleecy top is of instruction tight and windproof. Plus it can be put through an semiautomatic carwash without some hesitation. With a total thickness of 23.5 mm, the fabric fleecy top offers excellent thermal insulation, meaning that the E-Class. Cabriolet is also saint for ingest in winter.

Safety: burly structure, anticipatory protection and windowbags

The new Cabriolet offers the wealth of safety innovations one would expect from a Mercedes model. Highlights of the open-top two-door help include roll-over protection, the A-pillars reinforced by digit additional tubes and the plug-in B-pillars. This new help is also the prototypal Mercedes cabriolet to feature headbags.

The roll-over endorsement consists of two robust bars, apiece with a diameter of 35 mm, which are housed in the lateral head restraints in modules behind the lateral centre backrests. A tilting cone sensor detects imminent danger to the occupants based on extremity skidding movements or speed caused by impact. If this sensor then sends a same signal, pre-tensioned pressure springs are activated by pyrotechnic means, i.e. extremely quickly.

Consequently, both roll-over exerciser in the lateral head restraints are extended. They accomplish their highest saucer and are locked automatically within a fraction of a second. In combination with the robust A-pillars, apiece of which is improved with two high-strength poise tubes, the poise exerciser provide highly effective roll-over protection.

The plug-in B-pillars are extremely robustly adjoining as they vow in the lateral skirts, thus substance highly effective endorsement in the circumstance of a crash. A shoe made from ultra-high-strength poise braces the inside of the B-pillar against the lateral centre crossmember.

With seven airbags fitted as standard, belt tensioners and belt force limiters for every seats, not to name crash-responsive head restraints for the utility and face passenger, the newborn E-Class Cabriolet offers the most extensive country equipment package in this container category. The airbags, which crapper deploy in milliseconds in the circumstance of an accident, include face airbags and sidebags for the utility and face passenger, a kneebag on the driver's side, and headbags. The latter, which appear in a Mercedes cabriolet for the prototypal time, are housed in the door panelling in the beltline area. Covering a panoramic area – around 0.7 x 0.5 metres with a volume of 17 litres when deployed – the airbags provide extremely effective endorsement for occupants large and small in the circumstance of a crash. The three-part lateral endorsement grouping – comprising headbag and thoraxbag – optimises the take of endorsement afforded to individualist parts of the body. Rear sidebags are acquirable as an option.

Further exemplary country equipment acquirable for the E-Class Cabriolet includes ATTENTION ASSIST somnolence detection, PRE-SAFE® anticipatory occupant

protection, the worldly Intelligent Light System, the Active Bonnet and DISTRONIC PLUS closeness control.

The E-Class range: four attractive models

An original family at the hunch of the brand

* Complete: the Cabriolet is the fourth help in the E-Class range

* Innovative: every variants are characterised by ground-breaking newborn products and features

* Successful: the E-Class is the clear leader in its mart segment

In March 2009 Mercedes-Benz embarked on the restoration of the E-Class help family - digit assemblage later, with the mart start of the Cabriolet, the portfolio module be complete. A sort of theoretical innovations hit been incorporated into the newborn E-Class which no added car in this collection is able to offer - from somnolence spotting to semiautomatic emergency braking when an happening is recognised as imminent, and from Adaptive Highbeam Assist to the active bonnet. The E-Class is digit the safest vehicles in its segment, a fact which has also been proven by independent break tests and the specialist press.

In addition, there is a panoramic selection of powerful and economical engines which is set to be systematically long over the coming months. Depending on model, these range from the original E 200 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY producing 100 kW (136 hp) up to the E 500 producing 285 kW (388 hp). There are also AMG versions producing 386 kW (525 hp) and the all-wheel intend grouping 4MATIC. Exemplary mechanics are still added feature of the help range: with a drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.25, the taphouse is the most aerodynamically economical four-door car in the world, patch the help range's Coupé achieves the best coverall figure for a series-production car with a Cd figure of just 0.24.

\"The restoration of the E-Class help family at the hunch of the Mercedes sort has come at exactly the right time. The success of the newborn E-Class shows that modify in what are today economically turbulent times, Mercedes sort values such as country and efficiency, combined with exciting design, savor particular significance among discerning customers\", explains Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of technologist AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

As such the E-Class is the clear leader in its mart segment: in Germany the E-Class Saloon enjoys a mart deal of around 60 proportionality in its respective segment, patch in Western Europe (excluding Germany) its deal is more than 40 percent.

The four models in the underway Mercedes luxury collection series:

* The E-Class Saloon: the benchmark in the luxury class. Market launch: March 2009

* The E-Class Coupé: excitement crapper be this efficient. Market launch: May 2009

* The E-Class Estate: intelligent (E)state-of-the-art. Market launch: November 2009 and

* The E-Class Cabriolet: the 4-seater for every 4 seasons. Market launch: March 2010

Besides the innovations which every of the models of this family share, the individualist variants hit a sort of newborn products and features to compound the comfort, country and attractiveness which are specific to this model. With the newborn AIRCAP® feature, enhanced AIRSCARF® and also the accepted acoustic fleecy top, the newborn E-Class Cabriolet for example provides all-year-round richness which is unequalled in the portion of open-top vehicles. \"The development of AIRCAP® is an example of the perseverance and tenacity of our engineers and technicians: certain of the client goodness of an semiautomatic draught-stop, our specialists hit finally found the Mercedes solution, which at the advise of a button helps to significantly turn turbulence in the car's interior for every passengers – it is easy to use and always there. In this way we are sanctioning our customers to savor comfortable, open-top dynamical every assemblage round\", says Dr. Thomas Weber, technologist Board Member for Corporate Research and Head of Development of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

For its part, in constituent to air suspension with self-levelling at the lateral as standard, the Estate help also provides unequalled newborn alluviation compartment management features.

\"Never before hit we had such an effective presence with our E-Class help series as we hit with today's range. Saloon, Estate, Coupé and Cabriolet every deal the same success gene, still attractiveness to our customers in a very individualist way. This variety has been extremely well conventional by our customers. With the newborn Cabriolet we are complementing our successful E-Class family with still added particularly emotionally attractive model, in which our customers crapper continue to savor the Cabriolet flavour modify longer thanks to the unequalled semiautomatic draught-stop\", confirms Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Head of Sales and Marketing of Mercedes-Benz Cars.
Source: Tuning News

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Daimler AG Looking

Daimler is currently in talks with several companies as to eventually establish a partnership for building its future range of small-sized and compact cars.

The information was revealed by Dr. Dieter Zetsche, the President of the Board of Management of technologist AG, during an interview with Handelsblatt, a German daily newspaper. At this moment, among the potential partners, the most likely to be signed an agreement with and also the most rumoured one is Renault.

The French group is keen to find a suitable, as well as low-cost, shared theoretical platform for nonindustrial small/compact models;on the other hand, technologist is seeking an captivating and new range of powerplants to be installed under the hood of the forthcoming A- & B-Klasse replacers. We should get a expressed respond by mid-2010, when technologist AG is said to officially announce the deal.

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Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz construct automobile Production assemblage theoretical 2025. Brilliant and outstanding is what every automobile lover module exclaim when module see this BlitzenBenz construct car. The Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz construct was created by George Yoo, a designer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in Carlsbad, California. The BlitzenBenz was matured during his final assemblage at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz concept car

Created by George Yoo as a futuristic racing vehicle, BlitzenBenz concept is derivative from two assorted sources. And permit me tell you the roots of its organisation are in the past. The important inspiration behind the intent is from original Blitzen-Benz from 1909 that had a long tubular shape and rear cab positioning. On the other, Alex Erlandson work of creating sculptures from trees that were grown into destined shapes/patterns influenced Yoo considerably to contemplate what if automotive parts were to be grown and tamed to hold destined shapes.

Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz concept car

Obviously the profession is not quite there yet to create such a vehicle, but the underway investigate into nanotechnology is covering the artefact for intelligent and adaptable components which can be grown instead of manufactured. It's an unbelievably engrossing prospect which would completely edit the artefact cars are built, maintained, upgraded and recycled.

Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz concept car

The exterior design is a base for the organic structure and the individual rotate pods are there to sense as to when the inside automobile motors need to be cooled down. When the cooling module be required, these structures module open up in the same artefact as the plants do to receive the vital sunlight.

Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz concept car

To run this Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz, there is an advanced next-generation Hygenius organism gas engine and quaternary in-wheel automobile motors. The inspiration for the blue lightening system came from bioluminescent capabilities of deep sea creatures. Also, a gas storage tank is just beneath the cockpit and the fuel level is shown in a small window.

Mercedes-Benz BlitzenBenz concept car

Though, woefully, there is no technology to make this vehicle as such, but the progressing investigate into nanotechnology module sure unstoppered the way for components that can be grown than manufactured, changing the way cars module be built or maintained in future.

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MERCEDES GP1

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 21, 2009

Mercedes GP is delighted to announce the signing of a long-term agreement with PETRONAS which will see the Malaysian national oil and gas company embellish the title partner to the newborn Silver Arrows entireness team.

From 2010, the new aggroup will contend in the FIA Formula One World Championship as the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team and will circularize the distinctive PETRONAS branding crossways the car and aggroup liveries.

Leveraging Mercedes-Benz’s rich motorsport acquisition and the long-standing involvement of PETRONAS in Formula One, the newborn title partnership also paves the artefact for future collaborations between the digit companies. For PETRONAS, the partnership will enable the lubricator and pedal colossus to generate sustainable playing growth, specially in their downstream lubricants market, through the strategic partnership and playing alliance with Mercedes-Benz, digit of the most prestigious global automotive brands.

The Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team’s competition for 2010 will make its road entry in its new livery at Valencia on 1 February 2010 for the first of the pre-season tests aweigh of the 2010 Formula One season.

PETRONAS will move to be the title sponsor of the PETRONAS Asiatic Grand Prix, scheduled to be the third race of the new season, which will take place at the Sepang International Circuit on 4 April 2010.

Norbert Haug, Vice-President of Mercedes-Benz Motorsports, said: \"We are very pleased to begin our long-term partnership with our newborn denomination partner PETRONAS. Daimler, our premium brand Mercedes-Benz and PETRONAS module impact together both on and off the track and I am sure that everybody involved module indorse their absolute dedication to success. PETRONAS’ home humble in Kuala Lumpur is located in the location of a fast-growing location for the automotive industry which makes this newborn partnership modify more valuable. Within the limits of the newborn Formula One resource restrictions, the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team module be well positioned to achieve our goals. We module every strain to inform efficient success in the future knowing at the same time that the newborn Formula One flavour with whatever basic rule changes module be a particularly challenging one.\"

Ross Brawn, Team Principal of the Mercedes GP PETRONAS Formula One Team commented: “Everyone at Mercedes GP is delighted to support our long-term commendation with PETRONAS and we look nervy to working intimately with our newborn relation in the future. The collaboration of the premium automotive brand Mercedes-Benz and a company as prestigious as PETRONAS gives our aggroup a strange base from which to attain our ambitions of competing at the top level of Formula One and antiquity on the success of 2009 which saw the aggroup attain the Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships. Our plans for the newborn flavour are progressing well, as is the development of our 2010 challenger, and we look nervy to sight the car separate in the newborn Silver Arrows and PETRONAS livery at the Valencia test in February.”

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Mercedes-Benz, together with Hughes Telematics, announced a new infotainment system for its cars; the mbrace Telematics system, that will allow users to access 18 different services via a nifty telematics system.

Similar to Ford’s Sync system and GM’s OnStar, mbrace also enables pairing of smart phones like iPhones and BlackBerrys to the car’s electronic interface. Drivers can then use their phones to lock or unlock their cars remotely.

Other services include automatic emergency service notification in case the car is stolen or in an accident, a vehicle health check function that goes live to the nearest dealership, real-time weather and traffic reports, and even a concierge service that gets you 24/7 access to a customer-service rep who will help you make dinner reservations, book a hotel or order a flight.

The system will be available as standard in most Mercedes Benz cars, while others (GLK, C-Class, SLK and the new E-Class Coupe) will have it as an option. This fully upgradable system will come with a free subscription for six months, and will ultimately cost $280 a year. The optional concierge services will add $20 a month to that bill.

What makes mbrace really stand out is that it is fully upgradable, with new applications easily installed as they are developed. Furthermore, most vehicle owners using the current Tele Aid telematics service can also upgrade to mbrace by visiting a Mercedes-Benz dealer.

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