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Technology in detail: The permanent all-wheel-drive system 4MATIC
The 4MATIC drive system in the GLK is among the most powerful all-wheel-drive systems there is; its control systems break new ground. Advantages over other systems with a transversely installed drive unit are achieved thanks to the basic compact, light and friction-loss-optimised design with its longitudinally positioned engine and integrated main and transfer case. Fuel [...]
Continue reading...4MATIC control strategies for wintry road conditions: Best possible traction, stable and safe handling
8. December 2008
As is the case with 4MATIC’s fine-tuning on a dry or wet road, directional stability and therefore the active safety of the GLK models is always to the fore when wintry conditions prevail, too. The basic 4MATIC mechanism with a 45:55 percent torque split between the front and rear axles along with the multiple-disc limited-slip [...]
Continue reading...Mercedes-Benz gasoline engines in research and motor sports
24. June 2008
The models from S to SSKL were still used with the same engines in races and in private motoring. This very close relationship between racing engines and production engines changed in the 1930s at the latest, with the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix cars known as the Silver Arrows and the contemporary record cars. Later on, research vehicles [...]
Continue reading...The carburetor era comes to an end
24. June 2008
Some 36 years after Mercedes-Benz first implemented gasoline injection in a production car – the 300 SL – with four-stroke engine, the Stuttgart brand brought the era of passenger cars with carburetor engines to an end. In 1990, Mercedes Benz presented the new 190 E 1.8 model with 1.8-liter injection engine at the Turin Motor [...]
Continue reading...Mercedes-Benz gasoline engines since 1945
24. June 2008
In 1946, when production was resumed under difficult conditions after the end of the war, Mercedes-Benz fell back on proven engines from the prewar range. The first completely new designs to start production after the end of the war were the engines of the six-cylinder Mercedes-Benz 220 (W 187, 2.2-liter displacement, 80 hp/59 kW) and [...]
Continue reading...The Mercedes-Benz gasoline engine from 1926 on
24. June 2008
After the merger of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft with Benz & Cie. to form Daimler-Benz in 1926, older models of both brands continued to be built at first. The first newly developed Mercedes-Benz production car was the 8/38 hp model (W 02 series) with the two-liter in-line six-cylinder M 02. The undersquare engine developed 38 hp (28 kW) [...]
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8. December 2008
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