At the 40th Tokyo Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz is underscoring its position as the leading premium brand with a veritable pageant of compelling new models and innovative drive solutions. Among its motor show highlights in the homeland of the petrol hybrid, the inventor of the motor car and the diesel passenger car will be displaying highly efficient, clean Bluetec Hybrid versions of the C-Class and S-Class.
This unique modular drive concept, due to be launched shortly in various models and versions, will be premiered in the new E Class in 2010.
In Japan, the experts predict a sharp increase in the market share of diesels to around 15 percent by 2015. Mercedes-Benz is pioneering this development, a development supported energetically by renowned Japanese experts, on the back of environmentally and resource-friendly innovations such as Bluetec and Bluetec Hybrid that give customers what they want.
The C 300 Bluetec Hybrid based on the C-Class Estate, is a shining example in Tokyo of the outstanding potential of this unique technology. The four-cylinder unit and the hybrid module combined develop 165 kW/224 hp and maximum torque of 560 Nm, on a par with the figures of a large-volume V8 petrol unit.
Mercedes-Benz is also presenting the same drive in an S-Class luxury saloon in Tokyo. The S 300 Bluetec Hybrid combines effortlessly superior performance with unrivalled low consumption in this segment of just 5.4 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers, the equivalent of just 142 grams of CO2 per kilometer and thus 57 grams or around 30 percent less than the current world’s best saloon in the S-Class segment.
The six-cylinder version in the S 400 Bluetec Hybrid is even more powerful yet boasts the same exemplary economy and clean credentials: a combination of 195 kW/265 hp and a maximum torque of 630 Nm with fuel consumption of just 5.8 liters of diesel per 100 kilometer.
[Courtesy: Daimler]
