Inside the new Mercedes B-Class. The company has released the first official pictures of its all-new B-Class, revealing an interior that will adopt higher-grade materials and design touches from its more expensive sedans and sports cars.
Apple’s continuing influence on automotive interior design is also revealed by an iPad-mimicking multimedia display screen that dominates the dash of the new B-Class, a model that will make its debut at September’s Frankfurt motor show.
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The colour graphic monitor comes in either 14.7cm or 17.8cm sizes and its display, which includes audio and internet, is controlled by a rotary dial on the centre console.B-Class buyers will be able to choose from four different interior packages: Exclusive, Chrome, Sports and Basic.
The Exclusive interior comes with a dash top formed from the German car maker’s faux leather that it dubs Artico (the name Drive believes is a touch of German humour, being an abbreviation for artificial cow).
Mercedes has created a far more harmonious and interesting design compared with the somewhat disjointed and drab effort of the outgoing B-Class.
Classier-looking surfaces and materials will be more familiar from models such as the E-Class, while the cross-haired air vents – all five of them – are near identical to those used in the SLS Gullwing supercar and SLK sports car.
A regular handbrake also makes way for a more sophisticated electronic park brake, and Mercedes’ trademark seat-shaped electric seat adjustment controls are positioned on the door.
Mercedes claims the new B-Class, which sits on an all-new, highly flexible platform, will offer more rear legroom than even the S-Class limo.
The B-Class will reach Australia in early 2012 and is the first in a more extensive range of small cars that will also include the next-generation A-Class and a soft-roader, sedan and sports car.
Expect to find a similar version of the B-Class’s interior in the new models.
Courtesy: Drive
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