Big coffee test drive: the biggest change in history, the mid-term change, and the test drive of a new generation of E-class cars

When it comes to Mercedes-Benz, the first picture in most people's minds is the three-pointed star. It symbolizes career success, maturity and stability. However, with the younger car consumers, various car brands have also made corresponding changes. For example, the mid-term change just launched by Mercedes-Benz? E-class can be said to have subverted our previous impression of a Mercedes-Benz medium and large car. Today, let's take a look at where the new generation of E-class is new!

Younger? More confident

In fact, the brand image of Mercedes-Benz has always tended to be mature and steady, but after its performance brand AMG and luxury brand Maibakh blossomed, Mercedes-Benz seems to have got the secret recipe of how to please these two groups of people at once.

Like the E300L we got this time? Noble sports style, starry sky embedded in the three-pointed star emblem, bumper decoration in AMG style and two thick ridges on the hood all make us feel that the age of E-class potential consumers has dropped 10 years old.

The front and rear light sets of the new car have been redesigned. The overall shape of the headlight group is inspired by China's "Mei Feng" calligraphy, which is officially called "Meifenghaom daytime running lamp". Compared with the previous four-eye shape composed of two led strips, it really looks more fierce. Geometric multi-beam headlights are composed of 84 LED light sources, which can accurately distribute light and the irradiation range reaches 650 meters.

The layout of taillights is changed from vertical to horizontal, which makes the visual effect of the tail of the vehicle look lower and wider.

The dot matrix effect design elements after the taillights are lit come from Longlin Fengyu, which is called "Longlin Fengyu" taillights. It is worth mentioning that the whole lighting effect is displayed after diffuse reflection, so the lighting effect is particularly soft and will not affect the driver behind because it is too bright.

If the appearance is good or not, there should be no objection after opening the door. The interior color scheme we got is called Saint Tropez Blue with Macchiato beige interior color scheme, and because it is a sports version of the car, the steering wheel style is two-winged.

Although I didn't like this steering wheel style when I first saw the spy photos, when I saw the real thing, this color was matched with a very small airbag and a whole set of interiors, and the retro luxury texture came to my face.

The overall texture reminds me of the 300SL of 1957 for the first time. Roadster, but after so many years, it has improved more sense of technology while maintaining elegance.

Mercedes-Benz 300SL sports car

The co-pilot seat maintains a consistent level, with soft filling and excellent wrapping, and the seat can be electrically adjusted.

At the end, there are some upgrades. For example, an atmosphere lamp is added under the wood grain decorative board of the front seat backrest, which makes the luxury atmosphere even better. The shape of the air conditioning outlet in the back row has also changed, which is more convenient for the middle passengers to get on and off the bus. The filling of the middle passenger position in the back row has also become softer and the middle passengers are more comfortable to ride.

To put it simply, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, which was redesigned in the medium term, is completely at the forefront of change, both in appearance and interior design, which fully reflects its self-confidence.

More technological? More humane

Next, let's talk about this brand-new steering wheel. The steering wheel on the sports version is called biplane, and the multi-function control area is divided into four parts.

Among them, the upper left part mainly controls the function of full LCD instrument panel, the lower left part is ACC adaptive cruise function, the upper right part controls the function of central control LCD screen, and the lower right part controls Bluetooth phone and audio volume. After simple adaptation, blind operation can be basically performed.

After the brand-new MBUX in-vehicle system is upgraded, the control area of the center console becomes a touchpad, and the central control panel supports touch operation. That is to say, the steering wheel, the touch screen and the touch panel of the center console can control the functions of the in-vehicle system, which can be said to be quite practical and convenient.

The newly upgraded in-vehicle system also adds ar real-life crossing navigation, which can superimpose the real road environment and virtual navigation indication information during the navigation process, and has a feeling of playing Need for Speed Games.

Thanks to the new NVIDIA Parker? 128 chip, 6-core CPU, 256-core GPU, 8G? DDR4？ RAM memory brings very powerful graphics processing performance. Made technical support and smooth experience for AR real-life navigation.

What is the highest standard smog terminator in the whole system? 99%? PM2.5？ The filtration of inhalable particles is quite intimate for some cities with poor air quality.

In addition to these hard-core technologies, Mercedes-Benz also reflects the temperature of its own brand through a series of sensors. For example, the newly added intelligent induction assistant can recognize the hand movements of drivers and front passengers. If I reach for the glove box or the front passenger's door panel, the overhead light will light up automatically.

Before opening the door on the side of the road, if a car comes from behind, the atmosphere light of the door will turn bright red, so that you can pay attention to the situation of the car behind.

When the main driver raises the air conditioning temperature, the atmosphere light on the main driver's side will turn red, and when the co-pilot lowers the temperature, the atmosphere light on the co-pilot side will turn blue. Even though they are all small functions, it is these small functions that make us feel the ubiquity of technology, and the cold code becomes a temperature experience.

Nothing happened? But be calm.

Compared with other parts, the power part of the E300L changed little in the middle term. It is still a 2.0T high-power engine with a maximum output of 258 HP, which matches Mercedes-Benz's own 9AT gearbox. The overall feeling is that this car is full of power and unhurried.

Because even if the mode is switched to the most enhanced exercise, the overall sense of acceleration will not bring obvious physical discomfort. A word is shun, but in fact, when you look at the dashboard, you find that its acceleration performance is not slow at all. So I prefer to lock the driving mode in comfort mode or energy-saving mode these days. This 9AT gearbox will control its own rhythm and keep its center of gravity as stable as possible. Then I will adjust the color of my favorite ambient light and listen to my favorite classical music. This is the correct way to open the E-class.

Not perfect, but good enough.

At present, among the same class models, the personalities of three German models are also very distinct. Compared with the other two competitors, the luxury brought by this set of interior on the E-class can be distinguished at a glance, and the appearance of the new design also makes more young users like it. MBUX in-vehicle system and brand-new ar navigation also prove that Mercedes-Benz has its own understanding of technological luxury.

In the past, we always liked to compare BBA together, but in recent years, from the price of various models, the brand influence of Mercedes-Benz has become stronger and stronger, and the E-Class after this change can be said to have broken through itself again, and it is not at the starting line with the other two German brothers.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.