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Take this with a very large block of salt, but a report from Autocar states the next generation E-Class will arrive in 2016 with a straight-six engine, something that’s been missing from the mid-size executive cars made by Daimler for a long time.
Of course, Mercedes currently only puts its sixes in a V-shape. This has packaging advantages, especially when you want to fit them inside a C-Class. But the inline-six will come with another, mush more promising advantage: modularity.
Just like BMW decided the most efficient displacement for a cylinder is 0.5 liters, so too will Mercedes come up with a way to reduce consumption. The same reports ties a pretty ribbon around this theory by saying the C-Class facelift coming 2017 will have a three-cylinder engine, presumably based on this.
The rumor seems to make sense, but we can’t quite understand why they developed the new twin-turbo 3-liter V6 for the E-Class if they were only going to make another, completely different engine to do the same job three years from now.
Just like BMW decided the most efficient displacement for a cylinder is 0.5 liters, so too will Mercedes come up with a way to reduce consumption. The same reports ties a pretty ribbon around this theory by saying the C-Class facelift coming 2017 will have a three-cylinder engine, presumably based on this.
The rumor seems to make sense, but we can’t quite understand why they developed the new twin-turbo 3-liter V6 for the E-Class if they were only going to make another, completely different engine to do the same job three years from now.
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