MB to introduce 19 cars in 15 min

[rskrobot]

Over dinner on Tuesday night, Geoff Day, director of corporate communications for Mercedes-Benz, hinted at many major announcements for the upcoming Frankfurt auto show. His big promise: Mercedes-Benz will introduce 19 cars in 15 minutes. These won't all be new cars, with probably a mix of concepts and updates, but Mercedes-Benz intends to make a big splash this year. We expect to see some sort of hybrid in the mix, although we couldn't pin him down on the details. The most firm information we got was the previously leaked F700 concept, rumored to be a big luxury car, which will feature the DiesOtto engine.

The F700 draws its name, and possibly some details, from the F500 concept launched at the 2003 Tokyo auto show. The F500 showed off a hybrid diesel powertrain, which hasn't made it into a production car, and a night vision system, which we saw in the 2007 CL550. Although no other details on the F700 are available, Mercedes-Benz has released full information about the DiesOtto engine. This engine, in its current incarnation, is a 1.8-liter four-cylinder that works like a diesel but burns gasoline. It uses spark plugs to get the burn cycle started, then switches them off, relying on compression for light and medium loads. Mercedes-Benz makes some dramatic claims for the engine's efficiency. This engine is supposed to produce 238 horsepower and 295 ft-lbs of torque, numbers that no four-cylinder gas engine of this displacement currently achieves. Even better, the engine would get 39.2 miles per gallon while producing low nitrogen oxide emissions. Impressive numbers, and even more impressive when you consider this mileage is supposed to be achieved when the engine is pushing a car the size of an S-class.

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[FATMOUSE]

There is no way this can be a good thing.

[thedguy]

I see they finally realized no one gives a damn about their cars and decided to make their announcements short. Now if only Chrysler and Ford would do the same thing.

[teeb]

I am willing to put 50p on at least half the cars being current cars with a new engine, or mild-facelift cars.

[Donington]

So, without further ado, here's the d-class f-class h-classj-class l-class-qwerty-class z-class-o-class classyclass-classicclasstopoftheclassclass..

*Deep breath*

big-class small-class bequiet-class today-classwe'llberevisingsomealgebra-class,class-room-class,class working-class middle-class upper-class under-class classlessclasyclass-class.

Thank you.

[hajj]

Originally Posted by Donington

So, without further ado, here's the d-class f-class h-classj-class l-class-qwerty-class z-class-o-class classyclass-classicclasstopoftheclassclass..

*Deep breath*

big-class small-class bequiet-class today-classwe'llberevisingsomealgebra-class,class-room-class,class working-class middle-class upper-class under-class classlessclasyclass-class.

Thank you.

That's more than 19 though (well at least classes) and it took less than 15mins...

[Cobol74]

Hell that's a lot of class. Now if only the cars were too.

[thedguy]

Originally Posted by Donington

So, without further ado, here's the d-class f-class h-classj-class l-class-qwerty-class z-class-o-class classyclass-classicclasstopoftheclassclass..

*Deep breath*

big-class small-class bequiet-class today-classwe'llberevisingsomealgebra-class,class-room-class,class working-class middle-class upper-class under-class classlessclasyclass-class.

Thank you.

I guess it'll be a very classy announcement

[essentialatom]

Reminds me of Gob taking three years' worth of Michael's ideas in Arrested Development and reading them all at once.

"31, bamboo floor upgrades, cheaper, stronger. I can’t read this word. 32, wireless crapability. That one explains itself. 33..."

[Necx0]

It will be like Jeremy reading that version of "Hungry Little Caterpillar" HAHA

That DiesOTTO engine sounds amazing though.

[3Colin]

Aw damn it, don't tell me I have to take Themodynamics II all over again.

For me, the only real Mercedes classes are the C, E, S, and SL. And the CL. Maybe the SLK... and the G.

[IVIaster]

hey come on, there could be something new in the mix, like what they did with the CLS

[thedguy]

They'll probably announce 3 new markets to compete in because the new car is 1 cm longer than the C class, but shorter wheelbase. And of course they have to have the 2 and 4 door version.

[Bundesautobahn]

Developers = Class:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

[niccce]

In other news, Queng Zing Xuan, the chinese manufacturer, promised that they will introduce 137 new cars in 11.75 minutes, while their well-hidden couple of thousands tech-spies will manage to diassemble and assemble again all the new Merc cars to steal the complete schemes of body & engine design. As a surprise, a true chinese copy of one of the new Mercs may well pop up at the end of the Motorshow for as much as just half the price, if everything goes well, ITAR-TOSS reports.

Anyway, last time someone in Germany did too much meth, it ended ooh so bad for them (and a couple more countries), so i'd lay off the stuff right away if i were them.