2015 Mercedes-Benz C300 4Matic | Driven: Car Review | The New York Times
Recent years have seen the planners of Mercedes-Benz products are systematically their way through the range, increasing the role of AMG, the overhaul of top-shelf S-Class and the entrance of adding bait range as the CLA-class sedan and SUV class GLA So far they have mostly left the W204 C-class Benz talk to himself a sweet makeover a few years improved its looks but not answered its main drawback the BMW 3 series was a better car car 2015 C-class represents the manufacturer to his Teutonic best deal earlier shortcomings with tenaciously doses technology and style.
One look and it's clear that the seed that blooms in class C were collected from the same strain as that of the S-Class The long sculpted hood, the front of the brand and the rear design have strong clues S -class, while class C loses some of the big car through the C-pillar back chalk up the smallest scale, tighter body C-class means its highly stylized rump appear a little less natural it does on more generous proportions of the zaftig S-class.
Our car was in the C250 and C400 models US buyers will see the most powerful C300 instead of C250 Both cars get a longitudinally mounted 2 0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder Sá near clone of the unit Sidewinder found in CLA -class When the C300 hits the States, he'll come packing about 241 horsepower and 272 lb-ft of torque and all-wheel drive; C250 the drive to the rear wheel we conducted overseas has its output dropped to 208 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of twist the C400 will arrive in the US as sampled his 3 0 liter turbo V-6 churning out 329 horsepower and 354 lb -ft of torque, all channeled through MB's 4MATIC all-wheel drive system, a rear-wheel drive C300 4MATIC will follow, and the plug-in hybrid recently confirmed C350 is expected to arrive in the fall 2015 A diesel is probably on the horizon as well, but it is our feeling that those engaged in hot lifestyle oil will be a few years to scrape the deposit All US liØes class C models receive automatic transmission seven speeds.
We took our first lap driving a C250, and it was immediately obvious that the mood of the S Class continues inside five round vents dot the dashboard, the middle of three sitting atop a Central console integrally ending just below 8 4 inches to seven inches screen without the media packet infotainment look the same in basic black flexible plastics is coherent and more refined and harmonized light years that CLA When accented by wood or aluminum trim available and teamed with leather, the atmosphere is pleasant with upscale taste We found the equipment to have the typical substantial feeling of hi-fi Premium Those familiar COMAND infotainment system of the Benz, however, will be surprised to find a small ergonomic guard placed over the control wheel COMAND Far a decorative luminaire, he brite a touchpad with haptic feedback that allows operation of all the infotainment functions using finger gestures.
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