With only just a day before official deliveries of the new Sonderklasse will start in most Mercedes-Benz showrooms, the Germans decided to ease the waiting pain of early buyers by releasing a movie-like trailer for their new flagship sedan.
Packed with ground-breaking technologies such as a high-tech suspension that scans the road ahead of the car and prepares itself for any potholes or other discrepancies found on the asphalt it drives on, the new S-Class will probably have a picture in the dictionary next to the definition for “wafting”.
Its newly-introduced safety features may be even more high tech than that, as some of them even allow the car to become completely autonomous at certain speeds, with the entire process of driving, braking and cornering safely being the responsibility of on-board computers and tiny motors instead of the accident-prone driver.
Last but not least, the upcoming S500 Plug-in Hybrid model will be the most fuel-efficient luxury car on the face of the Earth, with only 3 liters of fuel spent for every 100 km/h (78.4 mpg) in the combined cycle, all while delivering a 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration of 5.5 seconds and all the creature comforts you could ever want from a vehicle.
To those who have already ordered their new S-Class and are waiting for delivery, we salute you!
Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project. Full profile
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