Mercedes-Benz E-class 2016: driving test and video
Posted on 21-03-2016 to 16:00 pm by Wouter – 36 Comments”
Das best oder nichts. Despite the introduction of a huge amount of body styles the E-class is the heart of the range of Mercedes-Benz. This is the class to which they have the most volume run and absolutely the best.
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It is already the tenth generation of the E-class, so to experience is the Germans are not. Until the mid-nineties were E-classes especially known for their indestructible build quality, but in the meantime there are other things more important for cars to be able to sell. Mercedes-Benz pitcht the new E as the most intelligent businesslimousine (in class), because of electronic gadgets is the latest Benz: absolutely not.
Filled to the brim with gadgets
In terms of safety systems, there is currently nothing to invent what is not on the E-class. In fact, there are also things on board where we all have not to thought, but a handsome cup in Stuttgart. So you could have hearing damage occurs during an accident. It seemed to me not the first to use, but with Mercedes-Benz they had all the other problems already solved, so are they here but to take it further went.
An accident gives quite literally a slap and that can lead to hearing loss. The system PRE-SAFE® Sound uses the stapediusreflex to the passengers to protect it. In short it comes down to is that by a loud noise on the audio system to sound right for a likely accident, the ear is by the reflex partially shut down. An ingenious solution for a problem that we have not even suspected.
Too far to all the system was expanded to treat, so I give a short anthology
DRIVE PILOT project: semi-autonomous driving where the E-class on highways is quite reasonable self-control and can even job change. The bleary-eyed is that you send don’t have to hold on, but two seconds, the turn signal and the car as it can changes jobs.
DISTRONIC: the old familiar active cruise control, which now also signs can be read and the speed on adjust.
Active brake assistant with kruispuntfunctie: the system not only prevents head-to-tail collisions, but the E-klassse keeps at junctions and also the movement of the left and right in the holes.
Fallback stuurassistent: either the “virtual rijleraar” that helps steer during an avoidance maneuver
PRE-SAFE® Impulse Side: blows to the side of the seat just before an accident and increases space between the occupants and doors.
The active spoorassistent keeps the E-class within the lines and the blind spot assist makes the mirror obsolete. Parking may soon be a smartphone app, without anyone on board. Thanks to Car-to-X Communication is the E-class to talk with the rest of the traffic, but the rest of the fleet that possibility yet. So really useful is the pass about a few years.
Nice headlights
After this clickbait title, the expectation is high-strung, but I think the E-class they where. The lamp contains 84 LED’s which can be individually controlled so that you actually always with great light around. Oncoming cars are not blinds, because with all the cameras know the E-class exactly where that runs, and there seem to LED’s so not. That is all well-known cake, but the koplampexperts in Stuttgart, went even further. If it rains, the water on the road surface that the light is reflected and therefore the light intensity decreases to avoid glare. Signs also reflect light, so also there is a less bright beam.
Probably even hornier are the tail lights with his “stardust” reflectors, which are reminiscent of the Milky way, or the ignition of rocket motors. The car as penisverlenger gets a whole other dimension, but I should also be honest to confess that I really find funny.
A brilliant reisauto
The chairs, the comfortable suspension (adjustable, so sporty and can also), the silence in the interior and the peace that the pto can do its work. They are the ingredients what is the E-class to be a very pleasant reisauto. It is nonsense to say that it is close to perfection, but it did feel like the on board. Why yourself is folded to board a budgetvliegmaatschappij, when you’re in a “few hours” in all the comfort in a E220d from Portugal to Holland drive.
The optional air suspension helps here fantastic, but I also drove with the E400 with normal steel springs, and who scored high on veercomfort. Lovers of beautiful chassis could not, however, the air suspension with multiple rooms (two per strut front and three rear).
The new four-cylinder diesel
In addition to all the new electronic gadgets, there was, fortunately, an old-fashioned lump of hardware to be assessed: the completely new four-cylinder diesel engine. The advent of the block is in two respects, that is great news. First, it marks the birth of a new engine family from Mercedes-Benz, which further, not much is known. Second, we will block and derivatives thereof very often going to come across in pretty much the entire range of Mercedes-Benz. After all, from A-class to S-class and ML are all models with a four-cylinder diesel delivered.
The new four-cylinder diesel is shorter and more compact than its predecessor, not only because of the stroke volume is reduced from 2.1 litres to 1.950 cc, but also because the space between cylinders is reduced from 94 to 90 mm. In the E220d delivers the block 195 hp and the CO2 emissions are only 102 grams per kilometer and the normverbruik over 1 on 25. In practice, consumption will no doubt differ slightly, but that should not spoil the fun.
The tweeliter block is a much more civilised than its predecessor, sometimes loud nagelend wanted to proclaim that when refueling a handschoentje must be borne. As long as you have no solid acceleration requires you hear the block in the E220d practically non-existent. It helps in absolutely that the standard automatic gearbox, but less than nine oppose, therefore, the speed can be kept low. The vending machine does perfect work as you expected: your notes, especially at the change of the rotational speed that has decided on or to switch back.
E 200E 220 350 350 e
Inhoud1.991cc1.950cc2.987cc1.991cc
Vermogen135kw/184pk143kW/195pk190kW/258pk205kW/279pk
Koppel300 Nm400 Nm620 Nm600 Nm
0-1007,7s7,3s5,9s6,2s
L/100km5,93,95,12,1
CO2 g/km13210213349
Bijtelling25%21%25%15%
Of course, we couldn’t resist the temptation to add a block to do with the E400 4MATIC. Given the advent of the E43 AMG, this will probably not the model what huge numbers it will sell, but it gave the chance for a taste a E with a little more horsepower. The three-litre twinturbo V6 is throwing out 333 hp and 480 Nm, enough to have a solid touch of sportiness in the E-class to add.
Disadvantages
Apart from the price tag, there are few rational grounds for the E-class to serve. Prices start just under the 50 mille, but with a few options runs that, of course, hard again. Emotional reasons for nein to say to a new E there are (thankfully?) . The image of Mercedes-Benz in the Netherlands is still a thing, for some there still seems to be a scoop kamper, a hint of taxi driver and a scoop of kickboxer to cleave.
Another disadvantage is that most people already had difficulties with the C – and S-class from the other and that the E-class, the triplets are now complete. Strictly speaking, it doesn’t matter, but the car feels less new than it actually is. And that counts for some people. Movie!
Gallery: Mercedes-Benz E-class 2016
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