Planned to launch in the last quarter of 2024, the all New Mercedes E-Class will be tagged around 82 lakhs (ex-showroom) Delhi.
The new long-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz E-Class is headed to India around the 2024 festive season. Recently discovered in China, the only country wherein the lengthy-wheelbase E-Class is produced, the right-hand-pressure (or Indian model of the auto) will come to our seashores with considerable adjustments. Configured and specified with the tastes and choices of Indian luxury automobile shoppers in mind, it’s going to include diesel engines, a focal point on rear seat consolation, and features and options designed to hold proprietors – who generally sit in the rear – glad.
2024 Mercedes Benz E Class LWB: a more up-market design
The design of the brand new automobile is certainly evolutionary. The lengthy ‘Maybach’ rear doors which can be without a rear zone glass (it’s sited in the C-pillar) are carried over, as is the sweeping profile of the auto. The V214, but, does have specific elements. The bonnet is taller and flatter with a different clamshell shape, the grille is lower slung and receives a wider bezel, and also appealing is the manner in which the C-pillar has been blended into the boot. The extensively wider band of chrome strolling across the cabin adds a few a lot-needed bling.
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Defining the 2024 Mercedes Benz E Class LWB :
The lengthy wheelbase offers the new Mercedes E-Class its V214 designation (as towards W214 for the normal wheelbase Mercedes E-Class), and this vehicle is built at the identical MRA2 platform (Modular Rear Architecture) as the brand new S-Class and C-Class.
Featuring an all-new suspension gadget and up to date chassis, the brand new car is marginally longer than the present day Mercedes E-Class LWB bought in India. Moreover, being 20mm wider and built on a longer three,094mm wheelbase (as towards 3,079mm of the cutting-edge vehicle), it must be more spacious at the inner.
As earlier, there are possibly to be two grille designs on offer – one sporty, the alternative traditional. Owners in China can choose an illuminated surround (as towards most effective an illuminated logo), and the Digital Light headlamps and facet lighting fixtures have a feature that permits them to project a carpet of vivid stars as you release the auto at night.
Clean design of the rear with ‘mixed in’ tail-lights seems just like the S.
New Mercedes E Class LWB: all-new cabin has S Class vibe
On the internal, the brand new E-Class is a mixture of the S-Class and EQS. The sprint is ruled via a Hyperscreen-like flat surface, regarded here because the Superscreen. It contains a 14.Four-inch primary screen and a 12.Three-inch passenger display included underneath a single glass cowl, together with a separate 12.3-inch digital tool cluster in the back of the guidance wheel.
Mercedes India, however, is likely to go along with a simpler and greater fee-effective solution, as maximum Mercedes E-Class proprietors in India are chauffeur-pushed and take a seat in the lower back.
‘Superscreen’ unlikely to return to the Indian market.
Screen apart, the insides of the new E have a fresh, uncluttered look just like the S-Class. Clean surfaces abound, with metallic trim and LED backlighting lending a cutting-edge appearance. The new 2024 E-Class has 360-diploma LED mood lighting that wraps around the rear seats, and the 2-tone interior (on some trims) most effective serves to make the cabin look even extra up to date and personal jet-like.
There’s greater room, the backrest reclines and thigh aid is now extendable.
Thanks to the new car’s extended dimensions, you get 25mm extra elbow room, almost 20mm greater legroom, and the brand new rear seats recline to 36 tiers. The seats themselves are new and more comfort-orientated, with extendable thigh helps that may pass forward round 1/2 a foot. In-automobile audio comes courtesy of a Burmester 4D surround sound system with Dolby Atmos that provides spatial sound via a 21-speaker, 730 watt machine. Boot area with out the space saver spare tyre is 540 liters.
New Mercedes E Class LWB: hybrid petrol and diesel engines
Under the hood, the engine line-up is likely to be much like the outgoing automobile however thoroughly up to date. There may be no sturdy hybrids for now, however each diesel and petrol engines gets 48-volt moderate-hybrid tech. The strength of the electrical motor at the petrol has been accelerated from 15kW to 17kW and the new four-cylinder petrol (M 254) on the E 2 hundred is probably to be available with round 204hp. The OM654 diesel inside the E 220d is just like the diesel you get on the C-Class and receives a single-stage turbo, (because of the more electric improve). Power is possibly to go up to 200hp and torque a robust 440Nm.
The E 350d substitute will continue to get air suspension, and as for the engine, Mercedes may want to pass for the 4-cylinder, 265hp, 300d from the Mercedes C-Class or even the six-cylinder 450d from the GLE, with 367hp and 750Nm of torque!
New Mercedes E Class LWB: anticipated price range
Expected to head on sale at a top class of around Rs five lakh-6 lakh over the current car, costs for Mercedes’s lengthy-time bestseller are likely to variety from round Rs 82 lakh-95 lakh. This may want to imply that the on-street costs of top-quit vehicles could go Rs 1 crore. Despite this, insiders at Mercedes completely expect the E-Class to remain one of their bestsellers, making this predominantly chauffeur-pushed sedan or limousine greenback the trend that presently runs strongly in favor of SUVs.
