2010 Mercedes E-Class Best Bodyshell
The Mercedes E-Class wins the popular "Euro Car Body Award 2009". At Euro Car Body, the world's largest car body benchmarking meeting, a judges made up of about 400 conference delegate and board members voted the E-Class as the car with the best body shell. A total of nine new series-production bodies were presented in detail and scrutinized at the Euro Car Body event held in Bad Nauheim, Germany at the end of October. The candidates included the Jaguar XJ, Audi R8 spyder and BMW 5 Series GT.
"We are charmed to receive this award. Euro Car Body is after all the foremost conference for car body experts worldwide, meaning that it attracts top-ranking delegates," explains Dr. Jorg Langner, who heads the Detachable Front End Body Parts team at Mercedes-Benz Cars Development. "Plus, it means we have come full circle: seven years ago, the previous E-Class model was crowned the winner of the first ever Euro Car Body Award, which has been presented annually ever since."
The model series owes its success primarily to the top results it secured in the two voting categories "Customer value" and "Innovative process, production and plant concepts". As for all other product characteristics, the body shell forms a foundation here on which the experts from the other specialist disciplines build. Dr. Langner analyses the result as follows: "It wasn't a particular innovation which clinched it, but the harmonious overall concept." In the "Customer value" category, for instance, the jury rewarded the exemplary safety concept and comfort level in the E-Class and its outstanding aerodynamics. For all these qualities the body shell is the most important element.
The active bonnet is just one of many features which show how development of the E-Class body focused on customer value at all times. It reduces the risk of injury to pedestrians as well as offering E-Class owners a further crucial benefit: the active bonnet has a reversible design. So, if it is trigger by a minor parking bump, for example, Mercedes customers can simply return the bonnet to its original position - reactivating the system in the process - then continue with their journey.
"We are charmed to receive this award. Euro Car Body is after all the foremost conference for car body experts worldwide, meaning that it attracts top-ranking delegates," explains Dr. Jorg Langner, who heads the Detachable Front End Body Parts team at Mercedes-Benz Cars Development. "Plus, it means we have come full circle: seven years ago, the previous E-Class model was crowned the winner of the first ever Euro Car Body Award, which has been presented annually ever since."
The model series owes its success primarily to the top results it secured in the two voting categories "Customer value" and "Innovative process, production and plant concepts". As for all other product characteristics, the body shell forms a foundation here on which the experts from the other specialist disciplines build. Dr. Langner analyses the result as follows: "It wasn't a particular innovation which clinched it, but the harmonious overall concept." In the "Customer value" category, for instance, the jury rewarded the exemplary safety concept and comfort level in the E-Class and its outstanding aerodynamics. For all these qualities the body shell is the most important element.
The active bonnet is just one of many features which show how development of the E-Class body focused on customer value at all times. It reduces the risk of injury to pedestrians as well as offering E-Class owners a further crucial benefit: the active bonnet has a reversible design. So, if it is trigger by a minor parking bump, for example, Mercedes customers can simply return the bonnet to its original position - reactivating the system in the process - then continue with their journey.
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