Mercedes-Benz will reveal a brand new idea at this 12 months’s IAA Mobility auto present in Munich, Germany. It previews the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for its “Entry” section. Final 12 months, the automaker introduced that it could overhaul its product portfolio into three classes, and we’re getting a peek at that future lineup with a teaser that reveals off a glossy sedan.
The mannequin seems similar to the silhouette of the automobile Mercedes teased in 2022, however the brand new picture is a tad extra revealing in sure features. It reveals off the glossy greenhouse, the quick rear deck, and the white accents throughout the physique strains. It previews the entry level into the lineup, with Entry Luxurious, Core Luxurious, and High-Finish Luxurious partitioning the portfolio.
Lightening the picture in Photoshop (in contrast above) reveals extra particulars and the corporate’s makes an attempt to cover different bits of the physique. We’ll probably have to attend for one more teaser or the total disclose to see its entrance and rear fascias.
What we will see consists of the side-view mirror hooked up to the A-pillar. The white accents additionally seem to indicate a pronounced styling line extending from both finish of the automobile towards the B-pillar. One factor lacking from the teaser is seen door handles, but it surely doesn’t seem like the automotive strays too removed from the model’s present styling ethos.
Mercedes offered no new particulars in regards to the idea with this announcement. Nonetheless, the Entry Luxurious manufacturing mannequin is meant to journey on the MMA platform and will debut in 2024, so seeing an idea later this 12 months strains up with that. Whereas full electrification is within the firm’s future, the brand new MMA structure can accommodate inside combustion engines though Mercedes designed and optimized it for electrical powertrains.
And Mercedes shall be touting its EV efforts at this 12 months’s present. Will probably be the primary time that the corporate has in a single location its complete vary of present electrified fashions throughout each model. The present may also be dwelling to the world premiere of the brand new E-Class All-Terrain. It’ll share powertrains and styling particulars with the remainder of the mannequin line.
It’ll additionally show its future electrical and electrified fashions and ideas, together with the Imaginative and prescient EQXX and the Imaginative and prescient One-Eleven. Attendees will have the ability to expertise the lineups, with the corporate set to supply passenger rides in a fleet of 30 of its electrical and electrified fashions on the present.
IAA Mobility kicks off on September 5 and runs via September 10. The present remains to be a methods away, however we all know Porsche will showcase an electrical idea whereas Volkswagen will reveal its sporty ID.7 GTX with all-wheel drive and extra energy. Opel would be the solely Stellantis model to attend this 12 months’s present.
