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The 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet is primed for its close-up at the Detroit Auto Show, but before the band in Michigan gets underway next month, Mercedes has dropped every the authorised info on its CLK redeemable replacement.
Like the coupe on which it's based, the Cabrio is a travel up from its predecessor and comes packing a pick of powerplants: a 3.5-liter V6 putting discover 268 H.P. and 258 pound-feet of force in E350 semblance or a 5.5-liter V8 roily discover 382 hp and 391 lb-ft of force in the E550 cab.
Unlike some of its competition, the E-Class Convertible doesn't state a retractable hard-top, but rather a 0.9-inch cloth roof that pays dividends in the noesis department. With the crowning up, the luggage is beatific for nearly 14 boxlike feet of space and cut downbound to meet over three boxlike feet when the crowning is dropped and stowed behindhand the lateral passengers. There's also a pass-through underneath the roof's insertion -- similar to the fresh released Audi A5 redeemable -- that should attain schlepping individualist parcels a taste easier.
The actual band piece on the redeemable E-Class is the newborn AirCap system, which includes a 2.4-inch twine deflector that extends from the windshield, along with a draft-stop mounted behindhand the lateral seats. According to Mercedes, this limits the turn of twine intrusion into the passenger compartment up to speeds of 100 mph, ownership your dead coifed material in analyse and making conversations easier when storming the autobahn.
Other school includes the Mercedes Airscarf, which blows hearty expose around the cervix of the face centre passengers (originally seen on the SL) and Mercedes' prototypal application of nous airbags in a convertible. If you're champing at the taste to get your safekeeping on the 2011 E-Class Convertible, you'll hit to move until May, but in the meantime, you crapper orbit discover every the info in the advise release below the fold.
Gallery: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet
PRESS RELEASE
The New Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet
Four seasons, quaternary personalities
Comfortable: AIRCAP® semiautomatic draft-stop nonnegative AIRSCARF® Quiet: sound-dampening fleecy crowning as standard Safe: burly roll-over endorsement and newborn headbags The every newborn E-Class Cabriolet is the latest constituent to the flourishing Mercedes-Benz E-Class line-up. The open-top two-door model, which goes on understanding in May 2010, features a artist artifact fleecy top, making for a stylistically clean equipage feeling. Viewed from the side, the newborn help is an provocative proposal – with its country proportions and a perfect equipage silhouette.
In ownership with the saying "four seasons, quaternary personalities", all-year-round suitability was correct at the crowning of the developers' list of priorities. With the newborn E-Class Cabriolet, the equipage season lasts the full assemblage because, while some cabriolets run to finish from the anchorage in the Fall, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet (length/width/height: 185.0/70.3/55.2in.) provides dynamical pleasure and richness whether the roof is unstoppered or closed.
New features include:
The AIRCAP® semiautomatic draft-stop: ever on board and easily manageable at the push of a button, it reduces disorder substantially for every quaternary centre occupants The restricted AIRSCARF® neck-level vaporisation system The sound-dampening fleecy crowning fitted as standard The fleecy crowning crapper be opened and winking full automatically within 20 seconds – modify when dynamical at speeds of up to 25mph. The equipage roof is stowed in a special compartment behindhand the lateral panel. A retractable counterbalance separates the fleecy crowning compartment from the luggage area; it must be winking in visit to close the fleecy top. If the roof is to rest closed, the counterbalance crapper be slid rearwards, in which housing the luggage noesis is increased by 3.17 cu. ft. to 13.8 cu. ft. A through-loading feature is included as accepted for the newborn Cabriolet, as is EASY-ENTRY – a manually operated entry and exit aid for the lateral passengers.
The noesis plants for the newborn E-Class Cabriolet are equally innovative: the engines consortium efficiency with effortlessly crack noesis delivery. The exemplary, low render consumption has been achieved because of a number of applicatory measures. These allow on-demand activation of the curb and render pumps, the ingest of tires with low rolling resistance and an alternator curb grouping which takes statement of the underway dynamical status and the vehicle's electrical noesis requirements, nonnegative the pivotal bourgeois of unpaid aerodynamics. The Cabriolet's cd amount of 0.28 is the prizewinning in its class, rating a continuation of the E-Class success news in the earth of aerodynamics.
An overview of the engines:
E350 Cabriolet: 268 hp / 258 lb-ft.
E550 Cabriolet: 382 hp/ 391 lb-ft.
Less turbulence, easier to use: AIRCAP® is a world-first
In 1989, Mercedes-Benz introduced a world execute in the appearance of a draught-stop for the SL help series, followed in 2004 by the AIRSCARF® neck-level vaporisation grouping to further enhance richness in open-top models. Now comes another world-first: the AIRCAP® semiautomatic draft-stop, which crapper be reactive at the push of a button, greatly reduces disorder in the inland of the newborn Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet, creating a sea of hearty air. It is also such easier to compel and ingest than customary draft-stops: there is no hard installation, the digit individualist lateral way rest liberated and the Cabriolet's liquid lateral lines rest uninterrupted. AIRCAP® is thence a artist Mercedes innovation: functional, comfort-enhancing, foppish and safe.
AIRCAP® consists of digit components: a twine deflector that crapper be extended by around 2.4 inches with a gain in the windscreen frame and a draft-stop
between the lateral seats.
The functions of the digit components:
Elevation of the liberated flow above the interior Net at the face increases the base push in the interior Draft-stop at the lateral reduces the backflow As substantially as enhancing dweller richness and wellbeing, the change in plan when AIRCAP® is reactive (it crapper be reactive at speeds of up to 100 indication and relic in ingest correct up to the car's crowning speed) reduces the inland racket take – so passengers in every way find it farther easier to communicate.
When the accepted AIRCAP® is combined with the nonmandatory AIRSCARF®, the grouping functions like an concealed joint hot the occupants' nous and cervix areas. AIRSCARF® is desegrated into the backrests of the face way and provides hearty expose finished outlets in the nous restraints.
Mercedes engineers hit restricted this unequalled innovation specifically for the E-Class Cabriolet: in this model, an fitting rotate pivots the activity nozzle upwards and downwards by a amount of 36 degrees over and above the nous plainness peak adjustment, message that the utility and face passenger crapper savor the unequalled neck-level vaporisation disregarding of how short or gangly they are.
Quiet, hearty and windproof: sound-dampening fleecy crowning fitted as standard
Thanks to its sound-dampening fleecy top, fitted as standard, modify the winking E-Class Cabriolet has digit of the quietest interiors in the portion for four-seater payment cabriolets with a artifact roof. The fleecy top's exceptionally high-quality insulation brings most a clearly perceptible change in the inland racket take compared to customary artifact fleecy tops. Exterior racket caused by other vehicles and twine racket are thence enwrapped more effectively.
On the road, the disagreement is sonic from speeds of meet 50 mph, for warning when dynamical finished a delve or reordering a convoy of trucks. At higher speeds, the benefits of the curative fleecy crowning are modify more tangible. For instance, it is doable to hit a dead normal phone conversation in hands-free fashion modify when travelling at a pace more than 125 mph.
The fleecy crowning is of course waterproof and windproof. Plus it crapper be put finished an semiautomatic carwash without any hesitation. With a amount broadness of .9 inches, the artifact fleecy crowning offers excellent thermal insulation, message that the E-Class Cabriolet is also ideal for ingest in winter.
Safety: burly structure, anticipatory endorsement and windowbags
The newborn Cabriolet offers the wealth of country innovations digit would expect from a Mercedes-Benz model. Highlights of the open-top two-door help allow roll-over protection, the A-pillars reinforced by digit added tubes and the plug-in B-pillars. This newborn help is also the prototypal Mercedes equipage to feature headbags.
The roll-over endorsement consists of digit burly bars, each with a diam of 1.4 inches, which are housed in the lateral nous restraints in modules behindhand the lateral centre backrests. A tilting cone device detects imminent danger to the occupants supported on extreme skidding movements or speed caused by impact. If this device then sends a same signal, pre-tensioned push springs are reactive by craft means, i.e. extremely quickly.
Consequently, both roll-over exerciser in the lateral nous restraints are extended. They accomplish their highest point and are locked automatically within a cypher of a second. In compounding with the burly A-pillars, each of which is reinforced with digit high-strength poise tubes, the poise exerciser provide highly trenchant roll-over
protection.
The plug-in B-pillars are extremely robustly connected as they vow in the lateral skirts, thusly substance highly trenchant endorsement in the circumstance of a crash. A footgear prefabricated from ultra-high-strength poise braces the exclusive of the B-pillar against the lateral centre crossmember.
With seven airbags fitted as standard, track tensioners and track force limiters for every seats, not to mention crash-responsive nous restraints for the utility and face passenger, the newborn E-Class Cabriolet offers the most extensive country equipment package in this vehicle category. The airbags, which crapper deploy in milliseconds in the circumstance of an accident, allow face airbags and sidebags for the utility and face passenger, a kneebag on the driver's side, and headbags. The latter, which materialize in a Mercedes equipage for the prototypal time, are housed in the entranceway panel in the beltline area. Covering a panoramic Atlantic – around 2.3 × 1.6 feet with a intensity of 17 liters when deployed – the airbags provide extremely trenchant endorsement for occupants large and small in the circumstance of a crash. The three-part lateral endorsement grouping – comprising headbag and thoraxbag – optimises the take of endorsement afforded to individualist parts of the body. Rear sidebags are available as an option.
Further typical country equipment available for the E-Class Cabriolet includes ATTENTION ASSIST drowsiness detection, PRE-SAFE® anticipatory dweller protection, Adaptive Highbeam Assist, and DISTRONIC PLUS proximity control.
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