Mercedes S-Class S500 Cabriolet: driving test and video
Posted on 09-05-2016 to 16:00 by CasperH – 58 Comments”
For the first time since 1971, there is again an S-Class cabriolet for sale. Or the reintroduction of this übercabrio the need was the try worth.
[ First look, then read? Watch the video HERE! ]
While everyone is blind seems to be staring at the S63 and the S65 AMG, you can ask yourself or that the car is to order. Of course, we don’t understand the appeal of a lot of horsepower and a lot of noise. But is that really what you’re looking for if you have a cabrio shop of this size? And if you are looking for, are you going to be at Mercedes shop?
The W111 S-Class cabriolet, which we drove was great in two things: comfort and the latest gadgets of the brand watching. And, in fact, is the reincarnation, nothing has changed: the S500 is a beautiful car, but does not excel in turning, and is not the fastest boy of the class. Makes the S500 are less desirable? What concerns me not.
First, let’s what you need to know to treat: a S500 has 700 Nm of torque and 455 hp from a biturbo V8. This ensures that 0.7 seconds longer to do a sprint to 100 kilometres per hour than a S63 AMG, namely 4,6 seconds. The S500 is perhaps not the fastest guy of the class, but he is by no means slow. Something else is the S500 just as quickly: the hood opens and closes in 20 seconds, up to 60 kilometers per hour. Furthermore, there are just built-in lights in the sky of the convertible top.
A nice detail, and excels in the S-Class Cabriolet. Everything is beautifully finished, the (optional) Designo leather feels great, the displays in the dashboard are very sharp and so we can go on and on. And the car is also full of shell. A good example is the controller in the centre console: use the wheel to turn the menus back, but the moment you get to the end of a menu, then there is a blockage in the button. That way you will feel that you are at the end. It is not necessary, but it is nice. And that does Mercedes just very good.
What they also do very, very well with the brand with the star, is work off your hands. The almost completely autonomous cruise control is, for example, one of the best in its class. Of course it is not flawless and you must a driver always continue to look for, but it is a piece of technology that about pak ‘m beet 45 years to think will be out of cars. Just as we today, cars with crumple zones and self-oprollende belts of course, we will also have autonomous driving of course found in 2060.
The only thing that remains incomprehensible is the space on the back seat. This is an S-Class, a car is 5 meters long and 1,89 wide and 2050 pounds. How is it possible that there’s not enough legroom in the back knows how to achieve this? And don’t think that space than to the space in the boot, because that is tight and with the hood down difficult. And that reminds me: a back seat that no one wants to use, and a small trunk space, why not just merge?
In terms of driving experience, you should not sporty set. Of course there is a sports mode for the air suspension, of course you can bake with a sport option to tell that he especially as late as possible, must switch. But you don’t. You choose in both settings the “comfort” and you let it happen. Then the S500 at its best. You notice, barely, that there is a world outside of the car, other than that you passed him to see the first one. And hear the first one, if you want something louder go with the hood open. Thanks to things like AIRCAP (that is, the air flows also up to speed outside of the interior should keep) and AIRSCARF (warm air around your neck is always nice. And it is still too fresh, and then there are the heated seats and heated armrests to keep you warm, and asked laflauw to delights sandwich.
The engine and gearbox with nine gears to do effortlessly in their work, always you can on waves of torque, the horizon in no time at all to get you. It takes no effort, and you notice nothing of the brilliant chassis. It is almost no driving more, it feels like floating. If you have a threshold, driving there is no swell, but it also feels not stiff. There is only one word for it, and that is “brilliant”. For the lovers of the sound of a V8 is it may be to swallow: in the interior, you hear practically nothing of the block. Unless you have the roof open as hard as possible in reverse, then you hear it. Don’t ask why we know that, we did it for science!
To sum up: the kofferbakruimte and the rear seats are actually the only criticism I can think of. The S500 Convertible car might seem like the pathetic brother of the S63 and S65, but the man who, with the S500 arriving any moment is the man who gets it. The man who has everything can pay, but choose for the stylish. A Mercedes S500 Limousine for sale is not that the macho wants to be in the parking lot of the gym. You buy him to be a reasonably unobtrusive but with loads of style and drive around. You buy ‘m for its technical sophistication and brilliant interior. And you buy him because he almost everything can do for you, in the greatest degree of comfort that you can imagine. With an S500 cabriolet, you show that you have understood, while the S63 and S65 to the spotlight to fight.
You can have a S500 order from 169.900 euro, but with some options such as the Designo leather and the crystal-equipped headlights, you quickly reach above the 200,000 euros. But all of those bastards to give at least €240.000 euros on a S63 AMG, for about the price of the S65, not to mention. Do you do well. Movie!
Gallery: Mercedes S500 Cabriolet, 2016 driving test
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