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All Mercedes-Benz line-up will use the machine turbocharger within two half of the year in the future. This assurance was sent by the member and the development of the research council of Daimler, Thomas Weber, on Thursday (17/7), in Dusseldorf, Germany. 鈥淲e will install the machine turbocharger to all of our vehicle product as soon as possible before the year end 2010,鈥?revealed Weber. Europe and the United States. To be learnt, during 2012 Europe planned to carry out the reduction in the emissions threshold from 178 gram per kilometer to 138 g/km. Beside rumors of emissions, the market request would the increasingly big vehicle of the energy opinion also provided a basis for the new strategy of this Mercedes-Benz. According to Weber, now the consumer needs the method was cheapest overcame the height of the price of the fuel. Therefore, Weber considered the increase turbocharger became the appropriate choice. Apart from being easy to be installed, the device turbocharger did not increase the vehicle weight significantly. Now with turbocharger the efficiency profit and the increase in the performance of the vehicle could be maximized. Weber also explained that the first step in his side faced the emissions pressure and the price of the increasingly high oil will be followed by the middle stage strategy. In this stage of Mercedes-Benz will speed up the mass production of the vehicle hybrid. While responding to the long-term plan the German government appointed zero-emissions in his country, Weber confirmed Mercedes-Benz also was ready in this condition. In order to faces this demand of Weber said his side prepared the technology vehicle fuel cell and the electric power. During 2010, for example, Smart鈥?Mercedes-Benz alliance 鈥攚ill began produce the mini vehicle ForTwo electric powered vehicle.

But it still needs a bit of work. It gets clumsy when other people are yapping away in the car. You could ask your passengers to shut up, which they probably won鈥檛 do. At least, not to watch you bark away at an infotainment system. And don鈥檛 you dare have one of the windows lowered while talking to it, cause it simply refuses to cooperate. Now, you could use the available physical controls put there to improve your experience, but those are just as useless as the ones from the last generation cars with that awkward track-pad on the center console. I am, however, a big fan of that augmented reality stuff for the navigation system. It鈥檚 not only cool as hell; it simply makes the system more effective this way. But I will say that I found the A-Class鈥?suspension to be very firm, all the time. Even in Comfort mode. It just has that hard way of hitting a hole that punishes your spine. Then there鈥檚 the way the engine sounds.

The A250 is a quick car (more on that later), but there鈥檚 no engaging mechanical music to go with the performance, not even one of those fake sound enhancements like what you get in a GTI. On idle, it鈥檚 downright loud, clacking away like a diesel. And at full throttle, except for a hum discreetly heard throughout the cabin, there鈥檚 nothing hair-rising about the way an A-Class sounds. Finally, it鈥檚 not all that roomy in there. The rear seat is a tight fit for adults. I鈥檇 know, because I used the car for a bachelor party, in which I taxied three of my homies. And all of them complained about the rear seat. My tester had the optional Sport package, which gave it some super attractive and supportive sport bucket seats. They just wrap around you and hold you up nice and straight. You can tell there was some thought put into them.

Oh, by the way, I totally dig this car鈥檚 interior. It鈥檚 stylish, modern, and that enormous slab of two side-by-side LCD screens that now house everything, from gauges to the infotainment system, looks stylish and futuristic, like the more expensive stuff Mercedes sells. The entire cabin also lights up to the color of your liking at night. It鈥檚 all very classy and impressive for an entry level car. My A250 proved to be quite frugal as well. You can set it in Eco mode, which I wouldn鈥檛 recommend as these features simply feel like the throttle pedal is broken. I also can鈥檛 recommend leaving the Start/Stop feature on as it stumbles when turning back on, leading to a loud thump in the transmission. If only it didn鈥檛 require premium gas, though. Unsurprisingly, the hatchback configuration gives this car more practicality than the sedan, but not as much as I had expected.

Fold those rear seats down, and the A250 will engulf 43 cubic feet of your gear, which is significantly lower than a Golf鈥檚 (54 cubic feet). Hell, even a Mazda3 Sport does a better job at 47 cubes. So, when I say the Mercedes A-Class is a great rival to a Golf GTI, that鈥檚 because its off-the-line performance and handling abilities are up there with the best hot hatches currently out there. The problem is that the A250 is not as entertaining to drive as a GTI. So it鈥檚 a respectfully quick car, enough to not get humiliated by some dipshit in a Focus ST or a Civic Si. It also loves highway offramps with flat, composed, and serene handling that just keeps taking in the hits. This is an exquisite chassis, so good in fact, that you quickly forget you鈥檙e actually going fast, and that it can take a lot more power.