- Fuel consumption reduced by up to one litre per 100 km
- Up to 15 percent more torque and improved performance
TWINPULSE system leverages benefits of different technologies
The start of series production of the newly developed TWINPULSE four-cylinder engines for the C-Class represents yet another landmark in state-of-the-art automotive technology from Mercedes-Benz which delivers a range of significant benefits. The intelligent combination of different technologies, such as supercharging, charge-air cooling, dynamically adjustable camshafts, four valves per cylinder and Lanchester balancer shafts not only guarantees high performance, absolute driving pleasure and a degree of smoothness worthy of a six-cylinder unit, but also offers impressively low fuel consumption.
Compared with their predecessors, the new four-cylinder models achieve an average fuel saving of about one litre per 100 kilometres. Given the high production volume of the C-Class, this improvement has a significant effect on the overall fuel consumption profile and highlights the considerable scope for achieving fuel savings through advanced engine technology: in Europe alone, where there are some 130,000 new registrations of four-cylinder C-Class models each year, the potential fuel savings offered by the advanced TWINPULSE engines add up to more than 47.8 million litres per year* compared with the former four-cylinder units.