Stretching!
The new Mercedes-Benz E-class still has to get used to daylight, but there is already an extended sedan. You can probably already feel it coming: the extended E-class is not coming to the Netherlands.
Even before Mercedes-Benz comes up with an estate of the new E-class, we are introduced to another new body variant. Like the well-known new Mercedes-Benz E-class, it is a sedan, but not just any. This is the Mercedes-Benz E-class L, the extended variant. That is longer than large farmer S-class was two generations ago (W221).
AutoWeek has obtained the first photos and the first information of the E-class intended for the Chinese market in the database of the Chinese Ministry of Transport and Information Technology. The is only marketed as a longer ‘L’ in China. The extended E-class is 5.09 meters long and has a wheelbase of 3.09 meters. That makes the E-class L seven centimeters longer than the regular new E-class Limousine. The wheelbase is 13 centimeters longer. The S-class is considerably longer, but the new E-class L is nicely longer than the S-class of two generations ago. It exceeds the standard variant of the W221 in length by over an inch. The wheelbase of the ‘EL’ is 5 centimeters longer.
In China, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class L is in any case available as E260 L and E300 L. Both versions have a 2.0 four-cylinder. In the E260, the petrol engine is 204 hp strong, in the E300 it kicks up to 258 hp. Like the previous E-Class L, it has a distinctive L-style trim element on the C-pillar.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl