Luxury brand B-class cars cannot avoid the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. It has been more than a year since the new generation of 3 Series was officially released, and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class may also be launched soon. Next year will see a replacement model.
Middle: C-Class rendering; Bottom: E-Class official picture
Uh...how is this so similar to the mid-term facelift of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class that was just released? Although it is not a real official picture, compared with the road test spy photos, there are some similarities. If the replacement C-class has this kind of appearance, please give it a score!
Middle: C-Class rendering; Bottom: E-Class official image
The relatively rounded line design of Mercedes-Benz has also won the favor of many people, and many people are interested in the models made by Mercedes-Benz and BMW. A kind of ridicule of the car concept is: Mercedes-Benz is built by designers, and BMW is built by engineers. Both the exterior and interior lines of Mercedes-Benz are mostly outlined with gentle curves. Straight lines are rarely found on Mercedes-Benz cars. This kind of design gives people an approachable feeling from a sensory perspective, which may be what Mercedes-Benz designers want to see. .
New S-Class Actual Car Picture
"If Mercedes-Benz has only built one car, it is the S-Class." This is not unreasonable. Since the current S-Class uses After the great success of the design language, Mercedes-Benz's other car series have basically set the style. From the pictures, the design language of the new S-Class's front face is relatively similar to that of the mid-cycle E-Class and the refreshed C-Class.
Top: S-class spy photos; Bottom: C-class spy photos
Judging from the spy photos, Mercedes-Benz’s new design language is to abandon the dual screen and adopt an LCD instrument panel + updated The large-sized central control screen design, this Tesla-style design has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can highlight the sense of technology, reduce physical buttons, and reduce costs; the disadvantage is that in addition to being easily stained by fingerprints, will it reflect light under strong light, and will it not be able to operate blindly and touch with fingers? Will it bring safety risks to driving? Studies have shown that even if it is not a physical button, even if it is operated thousands of times on the virtual button, you will not feel confident when operating it blindly, and you still need to search with your eyes. Would you do this?
An additional interesting topic here: Since the rise of Tesla’s large central control screen, many car manufacturers have also turned to this trend. Audi’s three LCD screens and Mercedes-Benz will also become It has such a design, but judging from the latest design language of the interior of the BMW i4 concept car, it still does not use a whole central control screen, but still retains some of the physical buttons we most commonly use. Why?
3 Series design sketch
I think BMW is more based on safety considerations. If you get in the car and carefully understand BMW's car-making philosophy, you will find that the driver's line of sight is only slightly higher than the instrument panel and central control screen. The advantage of this is that it minimizes the driver's line of sight shifts and changes in body posture during driving. Using only the peripheral vision of your eyes to scan, you can grasp the information displayed on the instrument panel and central control screen, while retaining some of the most commonly used physical buttons, supporting voice operations, etc., thus reducing safety risks. Of course, the manufacturing cost is definitely higher than concentrating it all on a large screen.
i4 concept car
Even if BMW develops deeper into the field of streaming media in the future, reduces physical buttons, and changes the screen to a curved design, it will still prioritize ergonomics. Most importantly, this design concept can also be found in the i4 concept car.
While using two full LCD screens, it also enhances the sensitivity of the voice system, the number of gesture control supports, etc. You can directly access the functional area with one sentence or a gesture. I think BMW is also ensuring safety with this operation. In the first case, try to improve the sense of technology and luxury as much as possible.
Let’s return to the discussion of the C-Class and 3 Series. The new generation of C-Class sedan will be built on the MRA2 rear-wheel drive platform and launch a variety of derivative models. However, it is worth noting that foreign media broke the news that The next generation C-class AMG will be equipped with a 2.0T+ motor hybrid system.
Foreign media revealed that the maximum power of the next-generation C63 may remain around 510 horsepower, but it will be powered by a 48-volt mild hybrid system based on the M139 four-cylinder engine on the Mercedes-Benz A45S. If the news is true, it will be a big impact on this level of models. Using a 2.0T engine to squeeze out the data of a 4.0T engine, is Mercedes-Benz's move right or wrong?
G80 rendering
As for BMW, it has been officially confirmed that the new S58 engine will be matched with the M?xDrive four-wheel drive system. As for the specific power parameters, the appearance has not yet been determined. Everyone already knows a lot about it, so I won’t go into details.
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