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Mercedes-Benz has the difficult task of improving the excellent S-Class limousine next year. But don’t pity the Stuttgart brand because it brought this upon itself by coming up with such an exquisite car in the first place.
There’s a reason people and companies don’t give out their best from the off - they risk hitting the ceiling too soon and, from there on, there’s only one way left, and it’s definitely not up. Well, as good as the current S-Class is, there’s absolutely no doubt that Mercedes-Benz will find a way to make it even better.
For now, though, it seems content just to give us the new facelifted S-Class piece by piece. The first car we’ve seen caught by our spy photographers had the headlights well hidden behind strips of black tape. However, we could make out some changes on the headlights, only to see this test car over here that uses a different type of unit from both the current model and the previously spotted car.
That leads us to believe that the ones we see here completely free of any type of camouflage are the new standard headlights for the S-Class (also spotted in a previous video), while the ones who were kept hidden are the new optional MULTIBEAM LED units we’ve discussed earlier.
The car that made the journey up North to be tested in winter conditions has another piece of its body wrapped up like it’s a newborn: the radiator grille. Up until this point, the grille wasn’t signaled as the recipient of any sort of changes, so it could be that Mercedes-Benz is fitting the test cars with one element at a time. Or it’s just trying to confuse us by randomly applying black concealment on different body parts.
Our photographers say that all cars had one thing in common, and that is a very well hidden interior, which would point out to several changes there. However, the first set of images we’ve had revealed half of the dashboard, and unless Mercedes-Benz is having a similar approach of not fitting the cars with all the updates at the interior as well, it looked pretty much unchanged.
With the new E-Class breathing down its neck, Mercedes-Benz decided to boost the size of its two displays and fuse them together to create a huge, flowing digital surface. Adding to the hi-tech feeling will be the gesture control system as well as enhanced driving aids, as seen on the E-Class.
Don’t expect anything radical in the powertrains department, with more of the same for the new S-Class, only with marginally more power and lower emissions - the latter helped by the new 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission.
It’s hard to tell what new info the next spotting of the S-Class facelift will bring, but we’ll surely see a lot more of the test cars in the following months as the release hasn’t been scheduled yet and it wouldn’t make sense to come any earlier than next year.
For now, though, it seems content just to give us the new facelifted S-Class piece by piece. The first car we’ve seen caught by our spy photographers had the headlights well hidden behind strips of black tape. However, we could make out some changes on the headlights, only to see this test car over here that uses a different type of unit from both the current model and the previously spotted car.
That leads us to believe that the ones we see here completely free of any type of camouflage are the new standard headlights for the S-Class (also spotted in a previous video), while the ones who were kept hidden are the new optional MULTIBEAM LED units we’ve discussed earlier.
The car that made the journey up North to be tested in winter conditions has another piece of its body wrapped up like it’s a newborn: the radiator grille. Up until this point, the grille wasn’t signaled as the recipient of any sort of changes, so it could be that Mercedes-Benz is fitting the test cars with one element at a time. Or it’s just trying to confuse us by randomly applying black concealment on different body parts.
Our photographers say that all cars had one thing in common, and that is a very well hidden interior, which would point out to several changes there. However, the first set of images we’ve had revealed half of the dashboard, and unless Mercedes-Benz is having a similar approach of not fitting the cars with all the updates at the interior as well, it looked pretty much unchanged.
With the new E-Class breathing down its neck, Mercedes-Benz decided to boost the size of its two displays and fuse them together to create a huge, flowing digital surface. Adding to the hi-tech feeling will be the gesture control system as well as enhanced driving aids, as seen on the E-Class.
Don’t expect anything radical in the powertrains department, with more of the same for the new S-Class, only with marginally more power and lower emissions - the latter helped by the new 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission.
It’s hard to tell what new info the next spotting of the S-Class facelift will bring, but we’ll surely see a lot more of the test cars in the following months as the release hasn’t been scheduled yet and it wouldn’t make sense to come any earlier than next year.
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