Sunday, July 05, 2009

Mercedes E500 Coupe - Latest W212 E-class in Abu Dhabi!

Even amongst all the gorgeous cars in the city, this latest W212 Mercedes Benz E500AMG stood out! I spotted this at Khalidiyah. Nice profile, great looking front, and a super evolution of the E-class "big small eyes" (as the chinese describe it!) nose :-)

Updated! Thanks to YJ for noting that it is in fact a ... Coupe!



Production 2009–Present
Assembly Sindelfingen, Germany
Predecessor Mercedes-Benz W211
Layout Front engine, rear-wheel drive / four-wheel drive
Engine 5.4L V8
Transmission 7-speed automatic

Wikipedia history ... The Mercedes-Benz E-Class is a range of executive-size cars manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in various engine and body configurations. The E initially stood for Einspritzung, (German for fuel injection); a new feature in volume production vehicles at the time that the E-Class first appeared, with the E as a suffix to the engine nomenclature (e.g. 220E) in the 1950s. It was not until the launch of the facelifted W124 that the E was used as a prefix (i.e. E220) and the model referred to officially as the E-Class (or E-Klasse).

Wikicars.org ... Codenamed W212, the next-generation E-Class will arrive for the 2010 model year, with the estate version (codenamed S212) expected for 2011. It was also decided upon to rest the CLK-Class name in favour of selling it as an E-class coupe.

2 comments:

Pureglutton said...

This won't be the last of the super posh cars u will see in that part of the world! The place is crawling with such beauties - it's like posh cars porn there all the time, haha!

Julian Si said...

Heh heh ... today's picK of the crop, a SEXY WHITE C63 AMG. Yes, 6.3 litres in a C-saloon! WOW :-)