New Mercedes F800 Style Concept Revealed | AUTO WORLD

The new details on the Mercedes F800 Style Concept, which previews the next-generation 2011 CLS-Class, have emerged.

The F800 Concept features a bold front-end, LED lights, and �revolve-and-slide� rear doors. According to Mercedes-Benz�s Head of Design, Gorden Wagener, �The exciting vehicle-like roof line, and in common the vehicle�s balanced proportions, provide it a chic sporty look that reinterprets the Mercedes-Benz intention idiom and emphasizes the sculptural person of the F800 Style. The effect is a harmonious blend of innovative form and perform, which conveys a sensation of great styling and expert.�

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Under the covering, the notion uses a higher multi-plunge platform which can accommodate a fuel section or a spin-in cross organism. According to Mercedes, �Each of the propel systems takes up comparatively little hole for the installation. This applies in particular to the emotional effort with fuel group, which has been enhanced by Mercedes-Benz to be compact and brawny. The front end�s compact container was made doable through the consistent downsizing of all F-CELL components. As an answer, the entire interior break is preserved and offers abundance of extent for five occupants.�

The socket-in mixture consists of a 300 hp (224 kW) V6 gasoline engine and a 109 hp (81 kW) cross module. Packing a pooled 409 hp (305 kW), the theory accelerates from 0-60 mph in 4.7 seconds and has top hurry of 155 mph (249 km/h) or 75 mph (121 km/h) in exciting means. More importantly, the F800 Style promote-in mixture view can run just on electricity for up to 18 miles (29 km) which fallout in stellar fuel consumption rating of 2.9 liters per 100 km (81 mpg US / 97 mpg imp). In crate you were wondering, the cross a lithium powered module-ion array, which can be recharged by a pattern household passage.

The fuel chambered theory uses an emotional motor that produces 136 hp (101 kW) and 214 lb-ft (290 Nm) of torque (estimated). It skinned components �taken from the array of open e-need modules, which Mercedes-Benz urbanized for a type of different emotional vehicles. These components, which are already installed in the imperfect newspaper B-Class F-CELL, can be used supplely and are right for a diversity of different guide configurations.� The fuel section is located in the front, while the exciting motor is installed near the rear axis. Power entrance from a lithium-ion series is emotional by �chemically reacting hydrogen with oxygen onboard the vehicle.�

Besides complex powertrains, Mercedes packed the Style concept with tons of technology. Goodies embrace a future COMAND technique (with a touchpad on the pinpoint console and a camera that report videotape images of the abuser�s hand as it mechanism the pad, which enables it to grant feel travels such as wiping, pushing, turning, and zooming), a 360 amount �Range on Map� perform for the navigation order, a new DISTRONIC PLUS practice with Traffic Jam Assistant (which handles steering and acceleration/braking � up to speeds of 25 mph), and a new PRE-SAFE 360 mark procedure (which engages the brakes harshly 600 milliseconds before an expected rear-end overlap).

Inside, the Mercedes F800 Concept cabin features lightweight seats (made of magnesium and carbon character), swish wood veneers, and a flowing center console.