Sometime around the 2024 holiday season, the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class with extended wheelbase will make its way to India. The right-hand drive (or Indian version) of the recently unveiled long-wheelbase E-Class will arrive in our country with a few notable modifications. China is the only nation where the car is manufactured. It will be equipped with diesel engines, a focus on rear seat comfort, and features and extras geared to satisfy owners, who often sit in the back. It has been configured and built with the tastes and preferences of Indian luxury automobile customers in mind.
2024 Mercedes Benz E Class LWB: what’s going on here?
The long wheelbase gives the new E-Class its V214 assignment (as against W214 for the normal wheelbase E-Class), and this vehicle is based on a similar MRA2 stage (Measured Back Design) as the new S-Class and C-Class. Highlighting an all-new suspension framework and refreshed body, the new vehicle is barely longer than the ongoing E-Class LWB sold in India. Additionally, being 20mm more extensive and based on a more extended 3,094mm wheelbase (as against 3,079mm of the ongoing vehicle), it ought to be more roomy within.
2024 Mercedes Benz E Class LWB: a more upmarket plan
The plan of the new vehicle is plainly transformative. The long ‘Maybach’ back entryways that are without a back quarter glass (it’s sited in the C-support point) are persisted, similar to the general profile of the vehicle. The V214, nonetheless, has particular components. The hat is taller and compliment with an unmistakable clamshell shape, the grille is lower thrown and gets a more extensive bezel, and furthermore engaging is how the C-point of support has been mixed into the boot. The significantly more extensive band of chrome going around the lodge adds some truly necessary bling.
As prior, there are probably going to be two grille plans on offer – one energetic, the other customary. Proprietors in China can choose an enlightened encompass (as against just an enlightened logo), and the Computerized Light headlamps and side lights have a capability that permits them to extend a floor covering of splendid stars as you open the vehicle around evening time.
New Mercedes E Class LWB: all-new lodge has S Class vibe
Within, the new E-Class is a blend of the S-Class and EQS. The scramble is overwhelmed by a Hyperscreen-like level surface, referred to here as the Superscreen. It contains a 14.4-inch focal screen and a 12.3-inch traveler screen coordinated under a solitary glass cover, alongside a different 12.3-inch computerized instrument group behind the controlling wheel. Mercedes India, notwithstanding, is probably going to go with a less complex and more financially savvy arrangement, as most E-Class proprietors in India are driver driven and sit toward the back.
Screen separated, the inner parts of the new E have a new, cleaned up appear to be like the S-Class. Clean surfaces proliferate, with metallic trim and Drove backdrop illumination loaning a cutting edge look. The new 2024 E-Class has 360-degree Drove temperament lighting that folds over the back seats, and the two-tone inside (on certain trims) just makes the lodge gaze much more upward to-date and personal luxury plane like.
Because of the new vehicle’s extended aspects, you get 25mm more space to breathe, almost 20mm more legroom, and the new back seats lean back to 36 degrees. The actual seats are new and more solace situated, with extendable thigh upholds that can push ahead around a portion of a foot. In-vehicle sound comes politeness of a Burmester 4D encompass sound framework with Dolby Atmos that conveys spatial sound by means of a 21-speaker, 730 watt framework. Boot space without the space saver spare tire is 540 liters.
New Mercedes E Class LWB: crossover petroleum and diesel motors
In the engine, the motor line-up is probably going to be like the active vehicle however completely refreshed. There will be serious areas of strength for no for the present, however both diesel and petroleum motors will get 48-volt gentle cross breed tech. The force of the electric engine on the petroleum has been expanded from 15kW to 17kW and the new four-chamber petroleum (M 254) on the E 200 is probably going to be accessible with around 204hp. The OM654 diesel in the E 220d is like the diesel you get on the C-Class and gets a solitary stage super, (because of the additional electric lift). Power is probably going to go up to 200hp and force areas of strength for a.
The E 350d substitution will keep on getting air suspension, and concerning the motor, Mercedes could go for the four-chamber, 265hp, 300d from the C-Class or even the six-chamber 450d from the GLE, with 367hp and 750Nm of force!
New Mercedes E Class LWB: expected cost range
Expected to go marked down at a higher cost than normal of around Rs 5 lakh-6 lakh over the ongoing vehicle, costs for Mercedes’ long-lasting success are probably going to go from around Rs 82 lakh-95 lakh. This could imply that the on-street costs of top-end vehicles could cross Rs 1 crore. In spite of this, insiders at Mercedes completely expect the E-Class to stay one of their hits, making this overwhelmingly driver driven car or limousine avoid the pattern that as of now runs unequivocally for SUVs.
