Mercedes-Benz E-class Reviews – Mercedes-Benz E-class Price, Photos, and Specs – Car and Driver
Mercedes-Benz E-class
Car and Driver
Rank in Mid-size Luxury Cars
The aesthete’s choice.
“Would you like to upgrade to an ocean view?” When you hear that question, what’s truly being asked is, how much do you value beauty? How you reaction may just determine whether you’re a coupe customer or a sedan buyer.
It’s the same question Mercedes-Benz is asking with the fresh E-class coupe. It’s mechanically identical to the E-class sedan, but it’s wearing a two-door bod. Like all superb Mercedes coupes, there is no B-pillar. Send all four windows down, open the big sunroof, and you have a massive opening above your head and on either side, which brings a sense of airiness. It’s not fairly the freedom of a convertible with the top down, but losing the B-pillars draws the elements and glances closer. Mostly, the pillars’ absence is just cool.
Coupes naturally compromise practicality, but the fresh E-class coupe is more practical than its smaller, C-class–based predecessor. Railing on a shortened version of the E sedan’s platform, the fresh coupe snips Two.6 inches from the sedan’s wheelbase, while at the same time its 113.1-inch wheelbase is Four.Four inches longer than the previous model, opening up an extra 1.8 inches of rear legroom. Still, the back seat accommodates just two. Albeit this ocean-view room is a little smaller, at least it’s made prettier with fresh air vents and optional light-brown open-pore wood for $150; several coupe-specific leather and wood trim options are available. The rest of the interior is pulled straight from the E-class sedan.
No sheetmetal is collective inbetween the E-class sedan and coupe. Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener has said, “The time of creases is over.” Thus we see sleek fenders and flanks on the E-class coupe. As sleek as Henry Moore’s later sculptures, the soft bod culminates in a slightly dovetailed rear end. The form emerges elegant and expensive, if familiar. It’s so familiar that it’s a challenge to tell the E-class coupe from the C-class and S-class two-doors.
Another differentiator inbetween the E-class sedan and coupe is under the fetish mask. At launch, the E-class coupe will come only as an E400. Its twin-turbo Three.0-liter V-6 makes three hundred twenty nine horsepower and three hundred fifty four lb-ft of torque. That engine is not available in the sedan—yet. An E400 sedan with the same engine is expected next year, when it will join the E300’s 247-hp turbocharged Two.0-liter inline-four, the Mercedes-AMG E43’s 396-hp version of the twin-turbo Trio.0-liter V-6, and the mighty twin-turbo Four.0-liter V-8 in the AMG E63. For now, the 329-hp V-6 is reserved for the coupe, the upcoming convertible—and, curiously, the E-class wagon.
Six cylinders and two turbos notwithstanding, the E400 isn’t exactly a powerhouse. Mercedes-Benz claims a believable Five.5-second zero-to-60-mph time for the rear-drive version and Five.Two seconds with 4MATIC all-wheel drive. What the E400 does best is act like a not-so-rich-man’s Bentley. Like a Bentley Continental GT, the E400 coupe’s waft game is strong, what with its effortless torque, muffle at speed, supple suspension, and solid structure.
Sportier AMG versions of the coupe will arrive next year, but until then, the E400 offers an AMG Line package for $2500 that adds more aggressive-looking front and rear bumpers, restyled rocker panels, AMG wheels, and a lowered suspension. The coupes we sampled in and around Whistler, British Columbia, all came with this appearance package and summer tires, but even with the chassis switches, the E400 coupe is softer and less acute than the overtly sporty E43 sedan.
For those who are sold on the coupe’s beauty, the price starts at $59,895 for a rear-wheel-drive E400, or $62,395 for an all-wheel-drive E400 4MATIC. That’s a $6820 premium over an E300 sedan. The extra cost must factor in the handsomeness of the coupe and also its more powerful twin-turbo V-6. Comparing the price of the two thousand eighteen E400 coupe to last year’s model exposes a $4420 increase. The fresh car’s style, size, and refinement are certainly worth that upcharge. Whether you think it’s worth the extra cost over the sedan likely will depend on how you response the ocean-view question.
Highs and Lows
Highs:
Soul-stirring looks, B-pillar-less airiness, waftability.
Stringently for four, no choice of engines, price premium over the sedan.
Mercedes-Benz E-class Reviews – Mercedes-Benz E-class Price, Photos, and Specs – Car and Driver
Mercedes-Benz E-class
Car and Driver
Rank in Mid-size Luxury Cars
The aesthete’s choice.
“Would you like to upgrade to an ocean view?” When you hear that question, what’s indeed being asked is, how much do you value beauty? How you reaction may just determine whether you’re a coupe customer or a sedan buyer.
It’s the same question Mercedes-Benz is asking with the fresh E-class coupe. It’s mechanically identical to the E-class sedan, but it’s wearing a two-door assets. Like all good Mercedes coupes, there is no B-pillar. Send all four windows down, open the big sunroof, and you have a massive opening above your head and on either side, which brings a sense of airiness. It’s not fairly the freedom of a convertible with the top down, but losing the B-pillars draws the elements and glances closer. Mostly, the pillars’ absence is just cool.
Coupes naturally compromise practicality, but the fresh E-class coupe is more practical than its smaller, C-class–based predecessor. Railing on a shortened version of the E sedan’s platform, the fresh coupe snips Two.6 inches from the sedan’s wheelbase, while at the same time its 113.1-inch wheelbase is Four.Four inches longer than the previous model, opening up an extra 1.8 inches of rear legroom. Still, the back seat accommodates just two. Albeit this ocean-view room is a little smaller, at least it’s made prettier with fresh air vents and optional light-brown open-pore wood for $150; several coupe-specific leather and wood trim options are available. The rest of the interior is pulled straight from the E-class sedan.
No sheetmetal is collective inbetween the E-class sedan and coupe. Mercedes-Benz design chief Gorden Wagener has said, “The time of creases is over.” Thus we see sleek fenders and flanks on the E-class coupe. As sleek as Henry Moore’s later sculptures, the soft figure culminates in a slightly dovetailed rear end. The form shows up elegant and expensive, if familiar. It’s so familiar that it’s a challenge to tell the E-class coupe from the C-class and S-class two-doors.
Another differentiator inbetween the E-class sedan and coupe is under the fetish mask. At launch, the E-class coupe will come only as an E400. Its twin-turbo Trio.0-liter V-6 makes three hundred twenty nine horsepower and three hundred fifty four lb-ft of torque. That engine is not available in the sedan—yet. An E400 sedan with the same engine is expected next year, when it will join the E300’s 247-hp turbocharged Two.0-liter inline-four, the Mercedes-AMG E43’s 396-hp version of the twin-turbo Three.0-liter V-6, and the mighty twin-turbo Four.0-liter V-8 in the AMG E63. For now, the 329-hp V-6 is reserved for the coupe, the upcoming convertible—and, curiously, the E-class wagon.
Six cylinders and two turbos notwithstanding, the E400 isn’t exactly a powerhouse. Mercedes-Benz claims a believable Five.5-second zero-to-60-mph time for the rear-drive version and Five.Two seconds with 4MATIC all-wheel drive. What the E400 does best is act like a not-so-rich-man’s Bentley. Like a Bentley Continental GT, the E400 coupe’s waft game is strong, what with its effortless torque, muffle at speed, supple suspension, and solid structure.
Sportier AMG versions of the coupe will arrive next year, but until then, the E400 offers an AMG Line package for $2500 that adds more aggressive-looking front and rear bumpers, restyled rocker panels, AMG wheels, and a lowered suspension. The coupes we sampled in and around Whistler, British Columbia, all came with this appearance package and summer tires, but even with the chassis switches, the E400 coupe is softer and less acute than the overtly sporty E43 sedan.
For those who are sold on the coupe’s beauty, the price starts at $59,895 for a rear-wheel-drive E400, or $62,395 for an all-wheel-drive E400 4MATIC. That’s a $6820 premium over an E300 sedan. The extra cost must factor in the handsomeness of the coupe and also its more powerful twin-turbo V-6. Comparing the price of the two thousand eighteen E400 coupe to last year’s model exposes a $4420 increase. The fresh car’s style, size, and refinement are certainly worth that upcharge. Whether you think it’s worth the extra cost over the sedan likely will depend on how you reaction the ocean-view question.
Highs and Lows
Highs:
Soul-stirring looks, B-pillar-less airiness, waftability.
Rigorously for four, no choice of engines, price premium over the sedan.
