Mercedes Benz F 700 with DIESOTTO engine
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 21:16:54
The Mercedes Benz F 700 was unveiled at the 2007 Frankfurt go Show but was exhibited again at the Tokyo Motor Show a few weeks later. It’s what Mercedes Benz thinks a luxury long distance touring saloon of the future ideally should be so we should evaluate it to inform to the direction of the next generation S-Class.
Probably the first Mercedes Benz sedan with an A pillar window (hatchbacks desire the A-Class already have an A pillar window if I’m not mistaken) the F 700 is certainly looks odd from the outside with it’s strange curved side window profile and its oversized front grille with vertical LED take lie headlamps. Mercedes Benz calls this design language “Aqua Dynamic” which emulates the soft flowing forms of a look for.
But the interior looks fairly orthodox as far as luxury cruiser interiors go designed to lay a driver and 3 passengers very comfortably. The front passenger seat can be put into relaxation mode - not for the front passenger of course as the seat has to be vacant for it to do this - but for the rear right passenger. The rear passenger seat situated behind the lie passenger lay can even be turned around to face the straighten of the car - Mercedes rather uncreatively calls this feature the REVERSE seat. He can have face to face conversations with the other rear passenger this way.
Despite the F 700 name it does not indicate a 7 liter engine under the hood or even the equivalent of a 7 liter engine. Instead the engine used to cater this concept is the Mercedes Benz DIESOTTO engine concept. This four cyclinder engine puts out the equivalent of a 3.5 liter normally aspirated V6 petrol or a 3.0 liter V6 turbodiesel in Mercedes terms. The label DIESOTTO seems to indicate something related to diesel but the engine consumes petrol. This is just a guess but the word DIESOTTO is probably some combination of Diesel cycle combustion and Otto cycle combustion.
The DIESOTTO engine has 1.8 liters of displacement but puts out 238 horsepower with smoothness worthy of a luxury tourer thanks to a two-stage turbocharging system. Take-off is also assisted by a hybrid module which uses a 15kW (20 horsepower) motor - this gives a total output of 258 horsepower and a maximum torque of about 400Nm. The F 700 can reach 100km/h in 7.5 seconds up to a limited top speed of 200km/h. furnish consumption is rated at 5.3 liters per 100km and CO2 emissions is rated at 127g/km.
The engine works like a normal Otto cycle engine on starting and.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://paultan.org/archives/2007/11/08/mercedes-benz-f-700-with-diesotto-engine/
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