Mercedes to bring three clean diesel SUVs to Canada

Mercedes to bring three clean diesel SUVs to Canada

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By: ROBINSON/BEINTEMA AUTOFILES

Mercedes-Benz is continuing its diesel initiative in Canada with three new SUVs equipped with the world's latest and cleanest diesel engine.

The new models R320 BlueTEC, ML320 BlueTEC and GL320 BlueTEC will initially be available exclusively in North America. They are powered by an up-to-date V6 engine featuring the environmentally friendly Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC technology, with whose help the diesel cars produced by the Stuttgart manufacturer already count as the world's cleanest.

The new models are equipped with AdBlue injection, which has already been demonstrating its exemplary effectiveness and economy in Mercedes-Benz trucks and buses for a number of years. As a result the three new SUVs achieve even lower emissions, are able to better the stringent Bin 5 limits applicable in the North America, and also have the potential to meet the coming EU6 standards.

All three of these new SUVs have also been significantly upgraded with much more extensive standard equipment, and now offer even more comfort together with unique safety features.

With these diesel vehicles Mercedes-Benz is once again underlining its status as the technological leader. The new models will be available in Canada in the fall of 2008.

In October 2006, Mercedes-Benz was the first manufacturer to commence a BlueTEC initiative in the passenger car segment which was timed to coincide with the introduction of low-sulphur fuel in the North America.

The E320 BlueTEC proved a great success from the outset, and was voted "World Green Car of the Year 2007".

As a next step, Mercedes-Benz is now due to offer the R, ML and GL320 BlueTEC in Canada, the world's first three diesel cars which not only meet the particularly demanding criteria of the American Bin 5 standard, but also have the potential to fulfill the stringent EU6 standard due in the future, and which therefore considerably better all the current, worldwide exhaust emission standards for diesel passenger cars.

The muscular V6 diesel engine powering the new BlueTEC models in the GL, M and R-Class shows that low fuel consumption and very low emissions are also possible for large SUVs. It has an output of 210 hp and develops 398 lb/ft of torque.

This represents an advantage of around 20 to 40 per cent versus a comparable gasoline model, and easily makes the Mercedes-Benz GL320 BlueTEC the most economical full-size SUV in Canada.

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