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

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

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 9/10/2008 3:47:27 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

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.

— jeffbro1 (View Profile)

Posted on 9/10/2008 4:23:31 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

That's uuuhhhh Prime.

— EvoAudi (View Profile)

Posted on 9/10/2008 7:36:24 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Keep fooling yourself. Mercedes invented the automobile.

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 7:10:29 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

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

— Bmw8ter (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 7:40:44 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

# 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.

— kpaxx (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 9:06:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

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

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 2:21:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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

— snatchandgrab (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 2:37:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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 .

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 5:06:23 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

"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

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 7:09:22 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

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!

— 993Turbo (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 8:17:54 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

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

— Whelan (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 9:18:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I wouldn't mind one if it came here.

— Htay7500 (View Profile)

Posted on 9/11/2008 3:41:45 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

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.

— Barrie (View Profile)

Posted on 9/13/2008 6:09:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1