06 S-class spied
04-26-05, 07:59 AM
#33
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NEW INFO!!!
It's a face-off! This picture reveals how the front of Mercedes' eagerly awaited next-generation S-Class will look. Although partly covered with black plastic cladding, it is obvious the new design is sleeker and more sculpted than that of the current car.
This official picture gives the world its first glimpse of the finished model, which will hit British showrooms in the autumn. As well as a new nose, the S-Class boasts a raft of clever hi-tech safety kit.
The current model was the first car with Pre-safe. This system senses an imminent impact using data from sensors, and automatically moves the electric seats to the safest position, closes the sunroof and pre-tensions the seatbelts. In the next S-Class, the set-up is enhanced and shuts the side windows, too. It also moves the front and rear backrests, and inflates the side bolsters to anchor and cushion occupants.
This function is a development of the Dynamic Multi-Contour Seat, already used in range-topping Mercs, which alters the chair's shape according to cornering forces. However, the idea of the inflatable bolsters has been expanded to keep occupants further away from the site of a side impact.
Another development on the new car is Brake-Assist Plus. This uses the radar beam of the Distronic adaptive cruise control to boost braking pressure if you're about to crash into a car in front. A similar system has just been launched in the new Lexus GS430 (see our first drive on Page 27), but instead of applying maximum braking, the Mercedes set-up continuously alters the pressure as required. Meanwhile, a second, short-range radar, which scans an area 80 degrees wide ahead of the car, looks out for impacts from other angles.
The maker used its Berlin-based driving simulator - the most realistic device owned by any car manufacturer - to develop Brake-Assist Plus. Tests, which including braking from 81mph to avoid hitting stationary traffic, showed that it reduced the number of collisions from 44 per cent to 11 per cent.
iDrive biotches!!!! LOL. How horrible.
It's a face-off! This picture reveals how the front of Mercedes' eagerly awaited next-generation S-Class will look. Although partly covered with black plastic cladding, it is obvious the new design is sleeker and more sculpted than that of the current car.
This official picture gives the world its first glimpse of the finished model, which will hit British showrooms in the autumn. As well as a new nose, the S-Class boasts a raft of clever hi-tech safety kit.
The current model was the first car with Pre-safe. This system senses an imminent impact using data from sensors, and automatically moves the electric seats to the safest position, closes the sunroof and pre-tensions the seatbelts. In the next S-Class, the set-up is enhanced and shuts the side windows, too. It also moves the front and rear backrests, and inflates the side bolsters to anchor and cushion occupants.
This function is a development of the Dynamic Multi-Contour Seat, already used in range-topping Mercs, which alters the chair's shape according to cornering forces. However, the idea of the inflatable bolsters has been expanded to keep occupants further away from the site of a side impact.
Another development on the new car is Brake-Assist Plus. This uses the radar beam of the Distronic adaptive cruise control to boost braking pressure if you're about to crash into a car in front. A similar system has just been launched in the new Lexus GS430 (see our first drive on Page 27), but instead of applying maximum braking, the Mercedes set-up continuously alters the pressure as required. Meanwhile, a second, short-range radar, which scans an area 80 degrees wide ahead of the car, looks out for impacts from other angles.
The maker used its Berlin-based driving simulator - the most realistic device owned by any car manufacturer - to develop Brake-Assist Plus. Tests, which including braking from 81mph to avoid hitting stationary traffic, showed that it reduced the number of collisions from 44 per cent to 11 per cent.
iDrive biotches!!!! LOL. How horrible.
04-26-05, 08:26 AM
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1. The front looks like the new C-class. The damn hood doesn't even include the whole grill, only half of it, like the facelifted C-class.
2. That interior is horrible and disapointing. That cannot be the interior, it looks identical to the 7 and it looks even cheaper than the current one (which is already a complaint) That has to be a Buick or something.
3. More tech that is cool but is it really needed? And wow, did they say the GS 430 had something first
2. That interior is horrible and disapointing. That cannot be the interior, it looks identical to the 7 and it looks even cheaper than the current one (which is already a complaint) That has to be a Buick or something.
3. More tech that is cool but is it really needed? And wow, did they say the GS 430 had something first
04-26-05, 08:36 AM
#36
Saw two of these going down the road a few weeks back in Terre Haute. I'm still mad that I didn't think to get pics. From what I could tell of the shape they looked pretty good, but most of the features were pretty well disguised. What they were doing in Terre Haute, I have no idea. Don't think there's anything Mercedes related in IN period.
04-26-05, 08:38 AM
#37
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Originally Posted by Dlewbell
Saw two of these going down the road a few weeks back in Terre Haute. I'm still mad that I didn't think to get pics. From what I could tell of the shape they looked pretty good, but most of the features were pretty well disguised. What they were doing in Terre Haute, I have no idea. Don't think there's anything Mercedes related in IN period.
I think there is a factory or something out there by you.
04-26-05, 08:44 AM
#38
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Originally Posted by AmethySC
Dash looks kinda like the 7 series
04-26-05, 08:57 AM
#39
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Originally Posted by 1SICKLEX
1. The front looks like the new C-class. The damn hood doesn't even include the whole grill, only half of it, like the facelifted C-class.
2. That interior is horrible and disapointing. That cannot be the interior, it looks identical to the 7 and it looks even cheaper than the current one (which is already a complaint) That has to be a Buick or something.
3. More tech that is cool but is it really needed? And wow, did they say the GS 430 had something first
2. That interior is horrible and disapointing. That cannot be the interior, it looks identical to the 7 and it looks even cheaper than the current one (which is already a complaint) That has to be a Buick or something.
3. More tech that is cool but is it really needed? And wow, did they say the GS 430 had something first
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04-26-05, 10:21 AM
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the new 750Li looks very nice after the refresh. it was pretty impressive face lift. i've always liked the current gen of S class. the new one, however, looks kinda blend in the crowd for MB.
04-26-05, 11:11 AM
#44
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Originally Posted by rominl
wow man don't tell me it's something like the idrive, i will bang my head on the wall...
Okay so I don't have a house, but you get my point.
Last edited by XeroK00L; 04-26-05 at 11:17 AM.
04-26-05, 02:04 PM
#45
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well if it is it and i do hope its the 06 S-class, it finally has fog lamps. kinda weird how a 75 thousand dollar plus car doesnt offer fogs as standard, or optional, ( i think its optional but dont know for sure) even the 600 model which is like a decent house price doesnt have them. well guess they thought the lights were bring enough that the car didnt need them, but who knows