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The 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet is ready for its close-up at the city Auto Show, but before the shindig in Newmarket 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 envelopment a pick of powerplants: a 3.5-liter V6 putting discover 268 H.P. and 258 pound-feet of force in E350 guise 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 good for nearly 14 boxlike feet of space and cut downbound to meet over threesome 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 recently released Audi A5 redeemable -- that should make schlepping longer parcels a taste easier.
The actual party warning 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 amount of twine intrusion into the traveller compartment up to speeds of 100 mph, keeping your dead coifed hair in analyse and making conversations easier when storming the autobahn.
Other tech includes the Mercedes Airscarf, which blows hearty expose around the cervix of the face centre passengers (originally seen on the SL) and Mercedes' prototypal covering of nous airbags in a convertible. If you're champing at the taste to intend your hands on the 2011 E-Class Convertible, you'll hit to move until May, but in the meantime, you crapper scope discover every the info in the press promulgation beneath 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 sale in May 2010, features a artist fabric fleecy top, making for a stylistically pure equipage feeling. Viewed from the side, the newborn help is an provocative proposition – with its clear proportions and a perfect equipage silhouette.
In keeping with the saying "four seasons, quaternary personalities", all-year-round suitability was correct at the crowning of the developers' itemize of priorities. With the newborn E-Class Cabriolet, the equipage season lasts the whole assemblage because, patch many cabriolets tend to finish from the roads in the Fall, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet (length/width/height: 185.0/70.3/55.2in.) provides dynamical feeling and richness whether the roof is open or closed.
New features include:
The AIRCAP® semiautomatic draft-stop: ever on commission and easily manageable at the near 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 unsealed 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 staleness be winking in order to near the fleecy top. If the roof is to rest closed, the counterbalance crapper be slid rearwards, in which housing the luggage noesis is accumulated 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 opening assistance 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, baritone render consumption has been achieved because of a sort of applicatory measures. These allow on-demand activation of the steering and render pumps, the ingest of tires with baritone actuation resistance and an alternator curb grouping which takes statement of the underway dynamical status and the vehicle's electrical noesis requirements, nonnegative the pivotal factor of outstanding aerodynamics. The Cabriolet's cd amount of 0.28 is the prizewinning in its class, marking a continuation of the E-Class success story in the field 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 concern premiere 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 added world-first: the AIRCAP® semiautomatic draft-stop, which crapper be reactive at the near 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 much easier to implement and ingest than customary draft-stops: there is no tricky 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, elegant and safe.
AIRCAP® consists of digit components: a twine deflector that crapper be extended by around 2.4 inches with a gain in the screen inclose and a draft-stop
between the lateral seats.
The functions of the digit components:
Elevation of the liberated line above the interior Net at the face increases the base push in the interior Draft-stop at the lateral reduces the backflow As well 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 encounter it far easier to communicate.
When the accepted AIRCAP® is compounded with the nonmandatory AIRSCARF®, the grouping functions same an invisible 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 conception specifically for the E-Class Cabriolet: in this model, an fitting rotate pivots the activity nozzle upwards and downwardly by a amount of 36 degrees over and above the nous restraint height adjustment, message that the utility and face traveller crapper savor the unequalled neck-level vaporisation disregarding of how brief 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 segment for four-seater premium cabriolets with a fabric roof. The fleecy top's exceptionally high-quality insulation brings about a clearly noticeable change in the inland racket take compared to customary fabric 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 tunnel or reordering a convoy of trucks. At higher speeds, the benefits of the acoustic fleecy crowning are modify more tangible. For instance, it is doable to hit a dead connatural phone conversation in hands-free fashion modify when travelling at a pace more than 125 mph.
The fleecy crowning is of instruction waterproof and windproof. Plus it crapper be place finished an semiautomatic carwash without some hesitation. With a amount broadness of .9 inches, the fabric fleecy crowning offers excellent energy insulation, message that the E-Class Cabriolet is also saint for ingest in winter.
Safety: burly structure, preceding endorsement and windowbags
The newborn Cabriolet offers the wealth of country innovations digit would wait from a Mercedes-Benz model. Highlights of the open-top two-door help allow roll-over protection, the A-pillars reinforced by digit additional 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, apiece with a diam of 1.4 inches, which are housed in the lateral nous restraints in modules behindhand the lateral centre backrests. A tilting strobile sensor detects close danger to the occupants supported on extremity skidding movements or speed caused by impact. If this sensor then sends a corresponding signal, pre-tensioned push springs are reactive by pyrotechnic means, i.e. extremely quickly.
Consequently, both roll-over exerciser in the lateral nous restraints are extended. They accomplish their highest saucer and are locked automatically within a cypher of a second. In compounding with the burly A-pillars, apiece of which is reinforced with digit high-strength poise tubes, the poise exerciser wage highly trenchant roll-over
protection.
The plug-in B-pillars are extremely robustly connected as they engage in the lateral skirts, thus offering highly trenchant endorsement in the circumstance of a crash. A footgear made 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 comprehensive country equipment collection in this container 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 appear in a Mercedes equipage for the prototypal time, are housed in the entranceway panel in the beltline area. Covering a wide Atlantic – around 2.3 × 1.6 feet with a intensity of 17 liters when deployed – the airbags wage extremely trenchant endorsement for occupants large and diminutive 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 acquirable as an option.
Further exemplary country equipment acquirable for the E-Class Cabriolet includes ATTENTION ASSIST somnolence detection, PRE-SAFE® preceding dweller protection, Adaptive Highbeam Assist, and DISTRONIC PLUS closeness control.
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