Or Your Shopping Bags From Neiman鈥檚?

Or Your Shopping Bags From Neiman鈥檚?

The touch screen on the 2017 Mercedes-Benz C300. The popular C-Class has a new sibling: the sexy C300 coupe. But, one word: Sedan. Not everyone is ready to (or needs to) relegate their lives to the needs of back seat passengers. For those who can embrace their independence and want a luxury reward, this car is for you. 1. Moves the front seats forward for you. And then it moves them back again. This is brilliant. Just pull up the chrome handle in the top of the front seat, fold the seat forward and then it automatically, electronically, moves forward creating an adequate amount of foot room for climbing into the back. We found the back seat to be fairly comfortable and the legroom was surprisingly fine, even with the front seat pushed fairly far back. Headroom was another story, though; the slope of the roof makes the back seat more comfortable for smallish passengers.

The rear seats in the 2017 Mercedes-Benz C300 were surprisingly comfortable. 2. Hands you your seatbelt. Mercedes-Benz created the 鈥淪eatbelt Presenter鈥?for coupes that, because of the design of the car, have longer doors and therefore, the seatbelt is hard to reach. The presenter extends from the door frame to hand you your seatbelt so you don鈥檛 pull a muscle trying to reach it. A car that hands you your seatbelt? Yes, please. The @MBUSA C300 is a chivalrous soul. 3. Drives semi-autonomously when you want it to. Mercedes-Benz鈥檚 Distronic Plus adaptive cruise control paired with lane keep assist will take over driving duties as long as there are no turns (sorry, you have to do that yourself). Just set cruise control, keep your hands on the wheel (it still wants to feel you near) and let the C300 take over. It even comes to a full stop if necessary and picks up speed again when traffic ahead of you starts moving. Head up display offers speed, navigation and the speed limit in the 2017 Mercedes-Benz C300.

4. Projects key driver information on the windshield. Need to know the speed limit on the road you鈥檙e driving? Just look up. Need to know when the next turn is on your route? Just look forward. Need to know how fast you鈥檙e going? Yeah, you get it: head up display (HUD) puts this information and more right where you鈥檙e looking so you don鈥檛 need to glance at that beautiful touchscreen on the dashboard. 5. Lets you customize your drive experience. I prefer eco drive. Except when I don鈥檛. Eco fuel economy with sport power, please (OK, probably not). The rotary dial and mouse function let you dial or sweep through functions on the screen. 6. Infotainment and driver settings at your fingertips鈥攍iterally. A mouse-like controller lets you swipe to set the radio, navigation and more. Or, use the rotary dial right in front of it. Or, push buttons to get what you want.

Almost every function is easily at hand so you鈥檙e never too far from that perfect song, temperature or destination. 7. A magic trunk. Really. In a coupe you need a functional trunk. Think about it: do you really want to fold the seat forward and climb into the back to get your case of paper towels from Costco? Or your shopping bags from Neiman鈥檚? 2017 Mercedes-Benz C300 rear view. 8. Never lets a little rain spoil your fun. That鈥檚 because the C300 has rain-sensing wipers鈥攋ust set it and forget it鈥?and a panoramic sunroof that will close automatically if raindrops are felt. 9. Never lets a little snow spoil your fun. The C300 Coupe is available in 4Matic, the Mercedes-Benz lingo for all wheel drive. What this means is that you鈥檒l never be stuck in bad weather because your car can鈥檛 manage the roads. The 2017 Mercedes- Benz C300 posing lakeside in New Hampshire. 10. Makes you look great. Well, that goes without saying, right? But here鈥檚 why: Beautiful design on the outside; its graceful, elegant and swooping lines really capture the eye. But that panoramic sun roof gives all the coupe鈥檚 occupants a distinct glow, as do the interior lights, which have a sparkly, star-like quality to them. And if all that isn鈥檛 enough, the sense of pampering you get from this car will surely put a warm glow in your smile and a little swagger in your step. Disclosure: I was a guest of Mercedes-Benz, which provided travel and accommodations, on the C300 test drive. All opinions expressed here are my own.

This is completely isolated from the transmission. The new operation with a transverse shaft concept leads to highly precise gearshifts. The rear drive axles for the Sprinter have remained generally unchanged, and the final drive ratios are also the same as in the previous models. Thanks to the powerful new-generation engines and the wide transmission ratio spread, the lowest of the final drive ratios previously available has now been omitted, however, though it still remains available on express request for special purposes. Customers have a choice of two final drive ratios for normal road operations, and in conjunction with the wide range of engines these allow the Sprinter to be perfectly configured for the type of operation intended. In conjunction with the new, agile high-torque engines, the new transmission with its wide ratio spread allows a very relaxed style of driving. The generally low engine sped level and the numerous technical innovations considerably reduce both exhaust emissions and fuel consumption. Depending on the output variant, the NEDC fuel consumption is between 0.5 and 1.0 litres per 100 km lower than that of the preceding models.