Features

· ABS Brakes

· Air Conditioning

· Alloy Wheels

· AM/FM Radio

· Anti-Brake System: 4-Wheel ABS

· Automatic Headlights

· Body Style: Coupe 2-Dr

· Cargo Volume: 6.20 Cu.Ft.

· CD Changer

· CD Player

· Curb Weight-Manual: 3573 Lbs

· Driver Airbag

· Driver Multi-Adjustable Power Seat

· DVD Player

· Electrochromic Exterior Rearview Mirror

· Electrochromic Interior Rearview Mirror

· Electronic Brake Assistance

· Electronic Parking Aid

· Front Air Dam

· Front Brake Type: Disc

· Front Headroom: 39.10 In.

· Front Heated Seat

· Front Legroom: 41.70 In.

· Front Power Memory Seat

· Front Side Airbag

· Front Spring Type: Coil

· Front Suspension: Ind

· Fuel Economy-City: 14 Miles/Gallon

· Fuel Economy-Highway: 20 Miles/Gallon

· Heated Exterior Mirror

· High Intensity Discharge Headlights

· Interval Wipers

· Keyless Entry

· Leather Seat

· Leather Steering Wheel

· Limited Slip Differential

· Locking Differential

· Navigation Aid

· Overall Height: 49.30 In.

· Overall Length: 182.60 In.

· Overall Width: 76.30 In.

· Passenger Multi-Adjustable Power Seat

· Power Adjustable Exterior Mirror

· Power Door Locks

· Rear Brake Type: Disc

· Rear Spoiler

· Rear Spring Type: Coil

· Rear Suspension: Ind

· Rear Window Defogger

· Separate Driver/Front Passenger Climate Controls

· Side Head Curtain Airbag

· Standard Seating: 2

· Steering Type: R&P

· Steering Wheel Mounted Controls

· Tank: 22.40 Gallon

· Telematics System

· Tire Pressure Monitor

· Tires: 265/35r19

· Track Front: 66.10 In.

· Track Rear: 64.90 In.

· Traction Control

· Trunk Anti-Trap Device

· Turning Diameter: 39.00 In.

· Vehicle Anti-Theft

· Vehicle Stability Control System

· Wheelbase: 105.50 In.

Standard Equipment

· Fuel Consumption: City: 14 mpg

· Fuel Consumption: Highway: 20 mpg

· Memorized Settings including door mirror(s)

· Memorized Settings including HVAC

· Memorized Settings including steering wheel

· Memorized Settings for 3 drivers

· Driver and passenger seat memory

· Remote power door locks

· Power windows

· Cruise control

· 4-wheel ABS Brakes

· Front Ventilated disc brakes

· 1st row curtain head airbags

· Passenger Airbag

· Side airbag

· Power Rear Spoiler

· Navigation system with voice activation

· Bluetooth wireless phone connectivity

· Audio system security

· DVD-Audio

· In-Dash 6-disc CD player

· Audio system memory card slot

· MP3 player

· AM/FM/Satellite Radio

· Radio Data System

· SIRIUS Satellite Radio(TM)

· Speed Sensitive Audio Volume Control

· Total Number of Speakers: 6

· Braking Assist

· ABS and Driveline Traction Control

· Cornering Lights

· Stability control

· Privacy glass: Light

· Silver aluminum rims

· Wheel Diameter: 20

· Wheel Width: 11

· Driver and passenger knee airbags

· Rear fog lights

· Leather/aluminum steering wheel trim

· Leather/aluminum shift knob trim

· Aluminum door trim

· Leather/aluminum center console trim

· Headlight cleaners with washer

· Video Monitor Location: Front

· Trip computer

· External temperature display

· Auxilliary engine cooler

· Tachometer

· Manufacturer's 0-60mph acceleration time (seconds): 3.8 s

· Driver's side electrochromatic auto-dimming mirrors

· Power remote driver mirror adjustment

· Heated driver mirror

· Heated passenger mirror

· Electrochromatic rearview mirror

· Power remote w/tilt down passenger mirror adjustment

· Power retractable mirrors

· Passenger reverse tilt mirror

· Turn signal in mirrors

· Dual illuminated vanity mirrors

· Daytime running lights

· Heated windshield washer jets and wiper park

· Driver and passenger heated-cushion

· driver and passenger heated-seatback

· Remote window operation

· Audio controls on steering wheel

· Satellite communications

· Power remote trunk release

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Auto blog

Watch Schumacher's hot lap of N"urburgring in Mercedes F1 car

Fri, 31 May 2013

In advance of the Nürburgring 24-hour race last weekend, Mercedes-Benz put on a demonstration that had Michael Schumacher playing catch-up in a Formula One car against four examples of AMG metal. There were four cars sent off in staggered starts before Schumacher: an A45 AMG, E63 AMG 4Matic, SLS AMG Black Series, and an SLS AMG GT3 car. "Mr. Formula One," as the German television commentators call him, left three minutes after the SLS AMG GT3.
There are two videos of Schumacher's lap, the first is on-board footage - and even though there were several GoPros on the car the POV never cuts away from the front wing. You can hear the throttle and tell he's not pushing it, you can also tell how bumpy the track is. The second video is footage from the German Sport1 channel - with commentary in German - that shows all the cars taking off and takes the aerial view of proceedings. He looks to be going a lot faster in that one. You can compare and contrast yourself with the videos below.
Oh, and it's worth noting that, even with the likely restricted car, and the made-for-TV environment, Schumi turned in a quick lap. The nose camera shows the F1 car start to slow down on the back straight, near the start/finish line, right around the modern-length track record time of six minutes and eleven seconds.

2014 Mercedes SL and SLK add small expansion to Takata airbag recall

Fri, 11 Jul 2014

Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to be affected by Takata's massive airbag recall. The company has announced a voluntary recall campaign on a small number of model-year 2014 SLK- and SL-Class roadsters.
In Mercedes' case, 300 vehicles are affected, 200 of which are in the hands of customers. According to spokesperson Donna Boland, the affected roadsters were built between March and April of this year.
The issue, which is apparently the fault of one of Takata's subcontractors, rests with some improperly installed fasteners, which could keep the airbag from performing the way it's supposed to. According to Boland, Mercedes isn't sure what, if any, injuries the recalled airbags could cause, but simply claims there's an increased risk in these particular vehicles. There's been no reported instances of the faulty airbags deploying on a customer and the original issue was found in a production test.

Erebus Motorsport Mercedes E-Class V8 Supercar completes the field [w/videos]

Sat, 23 Feb 2013

Ford, Holden and Nissan introduced their V8 Supercar challengers a while back. Erebus Motorport, whose racing program got the green light not even 120 days ago, has finally shown off the Mercedes-Benz E-Class racer that will complete this year's field of entries. The first AMG race car ever to be built outside of Germany, it's an Australian-built tube-frame chassis specced to the series' Car of Tomorrow rules, fitted with body panels that channel the E63 AMG.
Supported by AMG Customer Motorsport, the 5.0-liter engine is provided by HWA in Germany, the racing arm of AMG. Regulations dictate that it have roughly 650 horsepower, a redline between 7,000 and 7,500 rpm and a torque curve that matches the parity baseline set for all cars.
Lee Holdsworth, Tim Slade and Maro Engel will drive the three team cars, each with different sponsors. Their first showing will be at the Clipsal 500 on March 3 in Adelaide, here in the US we'll get to see them in May at the Circuit of the Americas. Check out the videos below of the Erebus car starting up at its launch, and footage of all of this year's cars doing pre-season testing on track together.

Mercedes Sls Amg on 2040-cars