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World Premier Of The Mercedes-Benz C 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Prime Edition

ashleyrude submitted on 09/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:18 PM
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World Premier Of The Mercedes-Benz C 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Prime Edition

Mercedes today has officially taken the wraps of their newest diesel engine generation – one that will be launched starting in autumn 2008. While the new engine will replace four of Mercedes' current diesel powerplants and be featured on a number of different Mercedes models, including the E-Class, the GLK-Class, the E-Class Coupé (yes, you heard me right – an E-Class Coupé is coming), the engine will first make its debut on the new C-Class pictured before you: a model that's being called the C 350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY Prime Edition. And I have to tell you, the figures are impressive, to say the least. Read Article

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1995e34 - 9/10/2008 3:47:27 PM

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gimme one with a clutch, and no star on the grille.

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Willis - 9/10/2008 4:07:00 PM

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It has a clutch.

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neutral - 9/11/2008 1:00:48 PM

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I love the star on the grill, for 2 reasons.

1) Looks awesome (my opinion, especially for the lesser Merc models like the C)

2) Some punk cant rip off your hood ornament, consider it preventative crime stopping.

jeffbro1 - 9/10/2008 4:23:31 PM

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Is it actually going to be released in America this time?

Mercedes has done a great job in regards to high mpg vehicles, but very few seem to show up in the US with the same great gas mileage compared the their euro brothers.

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EvoAudi - 9/10/2008 7:36:24 PMView My AgentSpace

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That's uuuhhhh Prime.

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TurboSpyder - 9/11/2008 7:10:29 AMView My AgentSpace

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Keep fooling yourself. Mercedes invented the automobile.

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Bmw8ter - 9/11/2008 7:40:44 AM

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TurboSpyder.....you might want to do some research before you speak, next time.

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kpaxx - 9/11/2008 9:06:27 AM

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# 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
# 1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
# 1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.

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TurboSpyder - 9/11/2008 2:21:42 PMView My AgentSpace

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Perhaps I could have been clearer. The company that manufacturers Mercedes automobiles, invented the automobile. Better?

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But my favorite part of the whole show involved not a new car, but one that was 121 years old. Mercedes had several replicas of the 1886 Benz Motor-Wagen, the first car. Young ladies in period costume were driving them around and giving rides to pretty much anyone who asked.

“Hey, can I have a ride?” I asked.

“Yes, of course,” said the girl, who identified herself as Bertha Benz.

Now you’d have to be a real Benz-O-Phile to know that Bertha was the real name of Karl Benz’ real wife. While Karl got the patent to the Motor-Wagen in 1886, it apparently hadn’t caught on, “Bertha” explained while we chug-chugged around the plaza between buildings of the Auto Show. So one day, August 5, 1888, without asking her husband’s permission, Bertha loaded their two sons onto the Wagen and drove 66 miles from Mannheim to Pforzheim.

The engine was a one-cylinder longitudinal horizontal layout that cranked an enormous flywheel. To start it you grabbed the flywheel and spun it. It fired every fourth stroke, spinning a drum around which was wrapped a belt that then spun the drive shaft and the big spoked wheel. Steering was by a tiller, the pinion of which operated a tiny rack that turned the lone front wheel.

They made one stop at a pharmacy in Weisloch for gas. The pharmacy was where you bought gas in those days. The stop made the Weisloch pharmacy the first gas station. They stopped two other times. Once she had to use her hair pin to unclog the carburetor and once she fixed an electrical cable with her garter. All true, Bertha explained as we motored between Hall 3 and Hall 5.

There we were surrounded by the highest-tech automobiles the world had ever seen and the one that got my attention was the oldest and possibly lowest-tech car ever made.
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http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070912/FREE/309120002/1607/frankfurtmotorshow01

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snatchandgrab - 9/11/2008 2:37:59 PM

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Daimler-Benz..aren't they the founders?

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TurboSpyder - 9/11/2008 3:02:41 PMView My AgentSpace

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snatchandgrab, Daimler and Benz were the founders. Before the merger with Chrysler the company was called Daimler-Benz and then when it merged with Chrysler it was called Daimler-Chrysler and now after the split it's just Daimler.

abcd - 9/11/2008 5:06:23 PM

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To me it`s hard to say if the motor-wagen was a CAR from today`s perspective . There were more important auto innovations than cart with internal combustion engine but this was of course also important . Earlier were only used transportations with steam engine .

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TurboSpyder - 9/12/2008 1:15:05 PMView My AgentSpace

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Get real. Kpaxx pointed out above the most important innovations that allowed Karl Benz to invent (and drive) the first automobile.

TurboSpyder - 9/11/2008 7:09:22 AMView My AgentSpace

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"fourth-generation common-rail technology with a rail pressure increased to 2000 bar and a new piezo-injector concept with direct nozzle needle control (for greater flexibility in injection timing)"

I believe this fourth generation common-rail fuel injection is from Delphi.

http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/4200

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kpaxx - 9/11/2008 9:03:39 AM

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Probably is and it was likely Delphi and MB working together to develop this!

abcd - 9/12/2008 4:54:33 PM

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"and it was likely Delphi and MB working together to develop this"

You likely want to think it was than it was in reality .

993Turbo - 9/11/2008 8:17:54 AM

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I have the current Blutech and it's really awesome. It's an E class that averages realword mpg of over 27. Unless you put your ear to the hood, you can't tell it's a diesel. The new engine must be amazing!

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Whelan - 9/11/2008 9:18:31 AM

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At what point are we going to shorten these names, it's getting a little ridiculous.

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Htay7500 - 9/11/2008 3:41:45 PM

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I wouldn't mind one if it came here.

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Barrie - 9/13/2008 6:09:36 PM

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Mercedes was the daughter of a Swiss business man who saw the potential and ordered a number of cars with the provision that they be named after his daughter, but Mercedes as it exists has evolved from Daimler Benz who were among the earliest to attempt to make cars and then went on to produce some of the worlds best, so they may not exactly have invented the automobile, but they are the sole manufacturer that can be traced directly back to the late 1800`s. At the moment diesel is the way to go, and there are some excellent diesels which are much better than hybrids.

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