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On January 29, the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class was officially launched, with a total of 5 configuration models launched, and the official guidance price was 899,800-1,818,800 yuan. The new car has a completely new design in terms of appearance and interior, and it is equipped with a number of "black technologies" in terms of accessories.
For the new generation of S-Class, Mercedes-Benz is completely different from BMW and Audi's interpretation and understanding of their own top cars in terms of appearance, the new car does not use a huge and exaggerated forward grille size to advertise the positioning of its family flagship, but still uses a shield-shaped three-banner chrome front grille, from a visual point of view, the overall proportion of the front face occupied by its grille is close to the current model, and the three-pronged Star Mercedes-Benz logo still stands above the engine canopy.
The new generation of S-class headlight group design, due to the changes in Mercedes-Benz's latest family design, its shape may be less stable than the top executive sedan, but its performance in technology is still good. The two headlight configurations of the new car, in addition to the geometric beam headlight group, the top equipped with intelligent digital headlights, the latter each headlight contains a lighting module, of which three powerful LED light sources refract and guide the light through 1.3 million micromirrors, resulting in a lighting resolution of more than 2.6 million pixels in the whole vehicle, thus achieving a high degree of accuracy and clear light distribution, effectively improving driving safety.
In contrast, the side shape of the new generation of S-class is relatively close to the old model, the smooth and stretched body line may be the position that this level of model needs to stick to, too obvious styling changes and the application of sharp lines are risky for the S-class, but the innovation of subtleties still exists, such as the hidden outside the handle used by the new generation of S-class, which can be completely flush with the body in the driving state, and the wind resistance coefficient of the car is 0.22.
The new taillight shape changes the vertical arrangement taillight group used by previous generations of S-class models, and adopts a new horizontal light group design, which is the latest family design style with Mercedes-Benz to the greatest extent. In addition, the tail of the new generation S-class continues to adopt a bilateral two-out exhaust shape, and the exhaust inside of each side is actually a dual outlet design.
The interior of the new S-Class is undoubtedly a world-changer than that of the older S-Class. Among them, the console has changed the method of the previous generation of S-class horizontal design, and the screen design of the LCD instrument and the multimedia display that we are familiar with is missing, and from another point of view, the new car seems to have returned to the traditional interior layout, and the functional partition of the dashboard and multimedia display is more clear.
At the same time, the detailed styling elements of the new generation of S-class interiors are also "rounded and squared", such as the four circular air conditioning outlets in the middle of the old S-class console, which are replaced by four new rectangular air outlets, and the air outlet position is also higher, located in the upper part of the multimedia display. Judging from the real-time model, it adopts a two-color interior color matching with shades and shades, and the large-scale use of white leather wrapping highlights the elegant atmosphere of the new generation of S-class interiors.
The new generation of S-Class cars support up to five screens, of which the size of 12.8-inch multimedia display, OLED screen and tactile feedback, and the LCD instrument is designed with a total of four display styles (soft style, sports style, noble style, classic style) and three modes (navigation mode, auxiliary mode, service mode), at the same time, the mechanical buttons in the car compared to the previous generation of models reduced by 27, control methods include touch, sliding screen, voice control and natural gesture control.
It is worth mentioning that the new generation of S-class head-up display system uses a new augmented reality technology, in addition to the conventional driving speed, driver assistance system and other information display, but also added dynamic direction indicator arrows, front car distance prompts and driving trajectory tips and other graphical prompts, the specific graphics are displayed in the front windshield 10 meters away, the display area is equivalent to a diagonal length of 77 inches of the display.
It is reported that the new generation of S-class cars are also equipped with active ambient lighting, which has an LED every 1.6 cm inside the fiber, a total of about 250, real-time control by the CAN bus management system, the brightness is 10 times (200 candela / square meter) of the previous generation model, and can be adjusted through the MBUX human-computer interaction system for 20 levels of color and brightness.
The MBUX human-computer interaction system on board the new car, the voice interaction system is called "mind-reading voice assistant", the system even if the system does not say the system startup keyword "hello, Mercedes-Benz", passengers can perform certain actions, including answering the phone or activating navigation, currently support 27 languages. Of course, with the Mercedes me personal account, you can also transfer your personal personalization settings to any seat, saving up to 7 different personal accounts. In addition, in the MBUX human-computer interaction system, the driver enters the height or tells the height to the "mind-reading voice assistant", the system can calculate the optimal driving position based on the input height, and adjust the driver's seat, steering wheel and rearview mirrors on both sides accordingly.
In terms of suspension, the new generation of S-Class is equipped with the Magic Body Control System, which is based on the active suspension of the 48-volt electrical system, consisting of 5 multi-core processors, more than 20 sensors and a stereo camera, the control unit of the system can analyze the driving situation at a speed of 1000 times per second, and adjust the suspension accordingly, including adjusting the roll, pitch and height of the body, as well as adjusting the vibration damping and spring strength of each wheel individually. In terms of rear wheel active steering, the rear wheel steering angle of the new generation S class is up to 10 degrees, and the official said that with the four-wheel steering system and the large steering angle of the rear wheel, the turning diameter of the new generation of S-class cars can be shortened by up to 2 meters, and the long wheelbase of the new generation of S class turns is less than 11 meters.
In terms of safety protection equipment, the new generation of S-Class is equipped with a preventive safety system side impact protection function, when the vehicle faces a side collision, the intelligent magic body control system can raise the body by 80 mm, thereby transferring the impact force to a more resilient body substructure; in terms of rear occupant protection, the car is equipped with rear passenger forward airbags, which use tubular frame structure design to reduce the impact load on the head and neck of rear passengers in serious frontal collisions. In addition, the new S-Class is equipped with a seatbelt snap with illumination, child seat status monitoring and airbags located in the center of the main passenger seat.
In terms of power, the new generation of S 500 L 4MATIC models is equipped with a 3.0T in-line six-cylinder engine + 48 volt light hybrid system codenamed M256 930, with a maximum power of 320 kW and a peak torque of 520 Nm. In addition, there are other power versions to choose from, the S 400 L business and luxury models are equipped with a 3.0T in-line six-cylinder engine + 48 volt light hybrid system, with a maximum power of 230 kW and a peak torque of 450 Nm. The S 450 L 4MATIC model, also equipped with a 3.0T in-line six-cylinder engine + 48 volt light hybrid system, has a maximum power of 270 kW and a peak torque of 500 Nm, and is matched with a 9-speed automatic transmission.