Pune : Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Thursday launched an upper-end variant of its flagship luxury sedan E-Class in diesel version — E350 — making it the eighth of the planned 10 launches this year.
With a starting price of Rs 57.42 lakh (ex-showroom Pune), launch of the E350 marks the revamp of the German giant’s E-Class portfolio in the country and is the sixth model to be assembled at its Chakan, Pune facility, managing director and chief executive Eberhard Kern told reporters during the unveiling of the car. The E-Class portfolio includes the E200, E250 and E350 and E63 AMG, which are available in both diesel and petrol
options. Kern said the new E350 sports a 6-cylinder, 3-litre engine and a host of features and has one of the higher torque, helping the car reach 100 kmph in flat 6.6 seconds. At present, all its models have petrol variants except the SUVs and over 20 per cent of the total volume comes from petrol models.
Terming the new E350 as an ‘intelligent superpower’, Kern said the car combines numerous ‘Intelligent drive assistance systems’ such a light systems, auto parking assist and
attention assist, which will go a