2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg

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2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg
2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg	2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Paris to Beijing 2 - St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg

(from DaimlerChrysler Press Release)

    The two US drivers were extremely enthusiastic about the driving features of their Mercedes-Benz E 320 BLUETEC. “There is nothing better for covering long stretches“, noted Jim McCraw. “We experience this every day. The car is large enough, fast enough, and very safe. It has comfortable seats, a good air conditioning system, and is simple and easy to operate. In the USA I often drive over 750 miles at a stretch. With an E-Class I am still fresh when I get out of the car.“ Jim has been on the job for over 40 years and knows what he is talking about. His co-driver Jamie Florez pipes in: “I particularly like the diesel with its low consumption and high engine smoothness. It is good for driving stretches of more than 1000 kilometres. For this trip, there is no better car, at the most another SUV perhaps.“

    Joachim Lindau, head of E-Class testing, is vindicated by this view: “We wanted to build a car with which a normal driver can travel at his leisure, whether in snow, on poor roads or under other difficult travel conditions. The E-Class is a comfortable saloon with good tuning and assistant systems as serial equipment, which help drivers to relax during long journeys.“ Jamie Florez is convinced of this and has already reserved his car Number 22, which he wants to buy for his personal use at all cost after the end of the long distance drive. “Driven carefully by one owner only in good weather“, he joked informally.

    To the great pleasure of the team the drive to the highest point of the tour at
2965 metres was accompanied by radiant sunshine in a landscape that was reminiscent of Andalusia, Spain. Soft mounds of grass and bizarre rock formations seemed to be impressively arranged by a giant hand. The arrival in the million-strong metropolis of Lanzhou could not have been more full of contradictions: Here, too, tall modern buildings, bustling traffic and construction cranes as far as the eye could see are a sign of the region’s rapid growth.