MERCEDES-BENZ E-klasse · E 280 Elegance · Sedan · 2005 ‐ 2006

From 2005 Mercedes-Benz launched production of automobiles type E-klasse, modification E 280 Elegance and closed it in 2006. In this car can sit 5 men including the driver, it has the body type of a sedan with 4 doors, and length 4.8 meters, weight 1.6 tons.

«E-klasse E 280 Elegance» is a rear-wheel drive auto with a 6-speed manual gearbox. This automobile can speed up for 7.3 seconds to 100 km/h, with a peak speed of 250 km/h, owing to a 6-cylinders petrol motor engine with a «multipoint injection fuel system», which generate a maximum power of 231 horsepower at 6000 rpm.

Fuel tank volume of this car is 65 liters of petrol, thus when normal fuel rate is 9.3 liters per 100 km (6.9 l on the highway, 13.4 liters in the city), accordingly allow you drive nearly 699 kilometers without refueling.

The front wheels of this car have ventilated disks brakes and fixed to the underframe with help of suspension «Double wishbone, independent, coil springs» and equipped anti-roll bar. Rear wheels have disks brakes and attached to the body chassis through suspension «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped with sway bar. Tires have the following size - 225/55R16.

In accordance with the information of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of Mercedes-Benz E-klasse received the higher number of stars - 5, which indicates that it is a perfect safe auto. Furthermore to passive safety systems (driver, passenger, side, head/curtain airbags), it is also has active safety such as EBD, ESP, Traction control, ABS, Brake assistant.