Talking About Automobiles

Japanese car makers are the world renowned best producers of eco-friendly cars, and the US car market is dominated with hybrid cars and plug-in vehicles that boasts their real time fuel efficiency. Almost all car makers in the US are venturing into building hybrid cars, but the Japanese car makers continue to take the lead. And because the government has stricter standards in terms of emission rates, these car makers are scrambling to make more fuel efficient cars.

Mercedes-Benz is one among the European car makers that ventured to the US car market. The German car maker had an unsavory reputation topping the list of the most harmful cars in the streets months ago.

Now however, the German car maker is proud to announce that they have launched the E300 Bluetec which is the very first clean diesel engine installed into passenger cars in the Europe. MB has been selling the Buetec models in the US for the past years and because the European government is also opting for a greener environment, MB decided to bring back the BlueTec to European car market to meet the future Euro 5 emissions standards.

The new car is handling a 3L V6 on a common-rail turbo-diesel which produced 211 horsepower running on a 398lbs/ft of torque which also accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in less than 7.2 seconds. It can also propel on a top speed of 152 mph and return into a 32 mpg for both highway and city driving.

The new car is filled with high-tech and advanced features to cope with the increasing demands of the European drivers. It also has the multi-stage exhaust-gas treatment system as well as the diesel particulate filter to lower the emission rates effectively. The new feature also allows gas mileage.

MB is planning to make the new technology available on its cars for the future. The North American models like GL, M and R-Class models of 2008 have the BlueTec.