No car is more for Mercedes-Benz than S-Class.It’s the flagship. The big boy. The car that will mark the bar for the company’s next product line.
Making its debut on Wednesday, the S-Class 2021 is expanding Mercedes’ full-size luxury package.With its rugged engines, sumptuous furnishings, attention to detail and an almost overwhelming amount of technology on board, the S-Class is even better placed to be a leader in the segment for many years to come.In other words, it’s great. Look.
This is the word that Mercedes-Benz chief designer Gorden Wagener used to describe the video presentation of the new S-Class. The artistic project was to create a sedan in white and sublime, but one that manages to convey his technological technique through wonderful attention to detail.
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I think it works and can be seen in the headgentles and tailgentles.At the front, there is a three-point LED smooth traffic pattern, but when the headgentles go up, the main bulbs are amplified through a flat LED panel.S-Class padded cladding and S-Class padded cladding is damaged through triangular easels, an intentional and “almost brutal” design piece, according to Eugen Enns, senior director of external design at Mercedes-Benz R
Dimensionally, the S-Class is a little bigger than before.It measures 208.2 inches long, 76.9 inches wide and 59.2 inches high, increments of 1.3, 2.1 and 0.4 inches, respectively.Interestingly, despite the 1.3-inch duration increase, the wheelbase is 2.0 inches longer than before, meaning the front and rear overhangs are shorter, contributing to the overall aesthetic.
The wheels range in length from 19 inches in the basic style to optional 21-inch rollers with the AMG Line set.Electronic handles that absolutely enlarge from the doors when you unlock the car or just walk towards it with the key in your pocket. Unlike other retractable handles, they absolutely emerge from the doors and offer a passable commitment. They’re not optional either, all of a Class S will have them.And they go a long way to aerodynamics. The S 2021 Class has a drag coefficient of 0.22, which is the Porsche Taycan, making it one of the world’s highest aerodynamic cars.
Before I dive into the interior, a note: the four-seater design discovered in some of those photos, and indeed, in the car I sat in the middle of R
The overall design is quite clean. I like the way the board moves towards passengers, but it narrows toward the firewall.The same old diversity of open pore wood, polished metals, fine striped patterns and black piano moldings will be available, with plenty of contrasting leather linings with padded seams.
Everything internal to the S-Class looks and feels fantastic.The ventilation controllers have a smart weight in their action and the center console “floats” far enough away from the board to give you a wonderful visual interest.There is an area for your phone or other tchotchke screen and enough garage area on the center console.Some gesture controls are also integrated into the new S-Class, adding a new feature that will allow you to open and close the sunroof with your hand.Magic!
Unsurprisingly, the S-Class is very comfortable.You can get fluffy seats with pillows on the headrests and rear passengers can even load neck masks.The guide wheel and the front and rear armrests can be heated, which sounds like a dream.on a dull day as you walk around the city. There is plenty of head and legroom in the back, even for the biggest passengers, as well as a colorful and soft atmosphere that can illuminate the interior with lots of tactics and even adapt to the weather or volume.Entries with animations on the board. Oh, and the seat belt is gently fastened so you can see them better in the dark, because of course they do.
The S-Class is the first car to gain the advantages of Mercedes’ second generation MBUX infotainment generation and I have already detailed many of its new features.Suffice it to say that the S-Class generation game is incredibly tough and one step ahead of what the competition like Audi, BMW or Porsche have been offering lately.
The 12.8-inch OLED center touch screen is the number one way to interact with MBUX. Using the Mercedes Me app, you can set up your profile and upload all your personal tastes to the car as soon as you get on.your voice, fingerprints, facial popularity or an undeniable PIN.The new MBUX formula can purchase up to seven profiles at a time.
Mercedes is working to improve its voice popularity and the S-Class shows the early stages of this progression.You can simply say “accept the call” to answer the phone and more handsets, the car will run into the passenger who is talking.The popularity generation now supports 27 languages and can interrogate the virtual assistant over a lot of random facts with what Mercedes funnyly calls the Chit-Chat feature.You want to know what an elephant is like? Yes, MBUX can tell you.
The S-Class also has a toll transponder integration, which can configure your Mercedes Me profile.Place the physical detector in a slot in the glove compartment and it can be read through sensors on the S-Class windshield, connected to the FasTrak or EZ-Pass or I-Pass or any other account related to your profile.
Visually, icons and graphics are familiar to those who have just used the first version of MBUX.The real win is the responsiveness of the system, thanks to 50% faster processing power.Even with a three-dimensional representation of the car, displayed in a bird’s eye view, you can drag and move the car without delays or delays.
An optional 30-speaker Burmester audio formula, with steel horn caps backlit on doors and pillars, eliminates jams.It is a 4D surround sound formula and you can go through a series of total settings to create your individual sound profile.as Mercedes says, is that you can feel the intensity of the music through the seats.Entley gives this kind of generation with its improved Naim audio, but with burmester’s formula, you can adjust the seat strength for the passenger.I can’t wait to see how it all works with my favorite songs.
All S-Class models get Mercedes’ 12.3-inch reconfigurable virtual caliber organization with other crisp, bright design themes and graphics.However, what’s new about this implementation is the 3-D generation package.Yes, the dashboard uses a camera driver-oriented design and can turn the organization of the meters into a 3-d effect when it’s in your view box, which takes a moment to log in at first, but when it does, it’s super cool.This kind of thing hurts other people after prolonged use, but fortunately there is a button in the most sensitive left corner of the MBUX screen where you can turn the 3-d effect on and off.
The 3-D meter group is some kind of device, but the main explanation of why getting this package is the front demonstration in augmented reality.For starters, the HUD is huge: Mercedes says it’s the equivalent of a 77-inch diagonal display. AR generation projects arrows and data into the driver’s vision box so you can see precisely where you want to turn. MBUX’s existing ITeration uses those AR overlays on the car screens for you with navigation commands, and the two S-Class front interior displays will still have this feature, but the next thing is to have them projected onto the road in front of you.
The driver-oriented camera enables new safety technology, where the S-Class can stumble upon its goal of opening the door.Combined with the blind spot tracking system, this means a precaution before approaching a pedestrian, cyclist or other car, which means that the technician can alert you to a possible turn of fate before it occurs.
This is just one of many driving assistance purposes of the new S-Class.Here are all the same elements as always. Adaptive full-speed cruise control can now pause up to 60 seconds before departure, active lane replacement systems are advanced for more transparent operation, and assistance to limit the speed and popularity of the signal can automatically adapt the class’s S-Speed as you technical faster or there is also the same old cross-traffic assistance , automatic emergency braking, collision assistance and more. The new generation Pre-Safe Impulse Side can even inflate the look in the front seat to keep the drive force or passenger lifted 2.7 inches from the door in the event of a collision.The new Active Parking Assistant uses a 360-degree camera and also allows perpendicular and parallel automatic parking.
What makes me happier in each and every thing I’ve just said is that it becomes popular in each and every S-Class.That’s right, you don’t have to pay anymore to get all of Mercedes’ maximum complexity systems.
An optional supplement is the rear seat airbag and S-Class marks the first implementation of this in a passenger car.The airbags are deployed from the back of the front seat in “a wing-shaped structure”, according to Mercedes, and then “a giant Tent-shaped airbag unfolds between the two wings.”Compared to the front airbags, they come out with less force, so there is less threat of collateral damage.
Over the next year, the S-Class will also have a service that can lift every aspect of the car by around 3 inches in the event of a side collision, reducing the loading effect on the door frames.
The rear seat airbag can only be available on the Executive Line package, which can only be available on the strongest (and most expensive) S580 4Matic. The executive line also adds a pair of fixed 11.6-inch HD touch screens on the back of the front seats, which will offer their own MBUX interfaces. Passengers can serve a variety of multimedia and vehicle purposes and can even search for destinations and send them to the front screen. Done, even the strange Energizing Comfort formula, which adjusts music and ambient lighting to wake you up if you feel tired – it has a special program for rear passengers.
On the folding armrest, Executive Line cars come with a 7-inch tablet that can reflect what’s on MBUX screens right or left, or paints like a popular Android tablet.A pair of wireless headphones are also included.
The aforementioned S580 4Matic is the high-end S-Class, powered by a 4.0-litre biturbo V8 engine.The V8 only develops 496 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque, but Mercedes’ lightweight 48-volt EQ-Boost.Hybrid weight system, which can carry 21 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of charging power.Power is transmitted to all 4 wheels via a nine-speed automatic transmission.
The main car is the S500 4Matic; True, all S-Class models have all-wheel drive, which uses a 3.0-liter turbo I6 engine with EQ-Boost.This powertrain develops 429 horsepower and 384 pound-feet still healthy, with the same light hybrid boost, and is also related to a nine-speed automatic transmission.
For the first time in a Mercedes-Benz, the S-Class can be used with a rear axle guide, in fact, on two levels. Luxury line cars and AMG Line are equipped with a 4.5 degree rear guide, while the Executive Line can be used with a 10-degree option, the latter giving the giant S-Class a turning radius of less than 36 feet.It is a narrower turning radius than Mercedes’ Class A subcompact sedan.
The warmer AMG variants are definitely in process and the S-Class will also offer a plug-in hybrid option at some point. In addition, while the practical driving assistance systems mentioned above are the only ones available at the moment, Mercedes-Benz says the S-Class is prepared and able to accommodate more complex Level 3 functions in the future.
As you can see, there’s a lot to bring here, but it wouldn’t be the launch of a new S-Class if there wasn’t a million things to tell.All that remains to know is how much it will cost, even since the existing S450 4Matic only costs less than $100,000, I can’t believe I can locate a five-digit S550 2021.
Look for the first series of new S-Classes to arrive at Mercedes-Benz dealerships in the first part of 2021.
This was originally published on Roadshow.
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