BMW 5-series versus MB E-class
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I found a test in the absolutely best car magazine Auto Motor und Sport between MB E-class and BMW 5-series. I think it is easier to read it in German, but for you who prefer English I have "translated" it with AltaVista?s babelfish. The English is thereafter. Guess which car wins?
The original German page translated with babelfish, please scroll down to find the article (Better layout than below)
The original German page
BMW 520i against Mercedes E 200 K
The basis models of five-he row and e-class in the comparison: BMWS 520i and Mercedes E 200 compressor go into Design and technology different ways.
The BMW 520i does not possess a two-litre engine, but a 2,2-Liter-Triebwerk. The Mercedes E 200 has likewise no two litres capacity, but only for a sedan of this size of lean seeming 1.8 litres. BMW sets strong row six cylinder on 170 HP. Aufgepeppt it becomes by the variable controlling of its two cam shafts (Vanos), lying above.
With the Mercedes engine with 163 HP only four cylinders must be sufficient, because there is sufficient Viagra technology: two balance waves for eliminating vibrations, in addition, rotating with double crankshaft speed, a compressor propelled by the crankshaft by belts, in order to bring the achievement of the small engine on an according to rank level.
Mercedes compressor subjectively more strongly
The BMW engine shows to be expected as highest run culture. It winds up like a turbine, whereby no more than December width unit sums into the interior does not penetrate. There the Mercedes Vierzylinder does not come along.
It works by the employment of the compressor with accelerating from small numbers of revolutions subjectively more strongly than the BMWS. The 520i is actually however in all relevant road performance criteria superior: It accelerates better, and it obtains the better values with the measurement of the elasticity. From a passage strength, which earns this name, the speech cannot be also with it. The better road performances the BMW owes not only to the shorter translation, but above all its substantially smaller weight.
Available space in the rear of the BMW corresponds to that of the Mercedes.
BMW handling most remarkably
And because the six cylinder for brisk driving more is dependent on high numbers of revolutions than the loaded Mercedes Vierzylinder, it awards to contents of its gasoline tank more joyfully: 10.9 litres of the expensive super plus on 100 kilometers. The Mercedes needs only regular super, from which it processes 10.1 Liter/100 kilometer on the average in the test.
The sportier character of the BMW, which already its winding up engine obtains, becomes clear also with the handling characteristics. The fuenfer profited here clearly noticeably from its smaller weight and proves a handling, whose precision for a sedan of this order of magnitude is most remarkable on winding distances. The Mercedes works, also because of its not completely so accurate steering element, more behaebiger.
BMW brake with better pedal feeling
Differences in driving safety do not certainly result from it. The Mercedes obtains the somewhat better values with the driving dynamics tests even. Both digest problem-free high rates of turn, prove a reliable self-guidance behavior and in extreme cases by cleanly co-ordinated chassis electronics are in-braked. Good brakes supplement the picture, whereby the conventional brake assembly of the BMW obtain a far better pedal feeling than the electrohydraulical brake of the Mercedes.
Despite their differenten driving characteristic the two competitors offer a travelling comfort which is on similarly high level. The BMW with its stahlfederung absorbs unevenness nearly as supply as the Mercedes, which began with the surcharge-requiring pneumatic cushioning to the test.
Date: 12.09.2003
Text: Goetz Leyrer
Photo: Hans Dieter Seufert
Technical data
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Achievement 125 KW (170 HP) 120 KW (163 HP)
Acceleration 0-100 km/h 9.5 s 10.1 s
Elasticity 15.9 s 16.3 s
Maximum speed 230 km/h 230 km/h
Test consumption 10.9 L/100km 10.1 L/100km
Braking distance from 100 km/h 43 m 44 m
Basic price 35.100, - ? 38.895, - ?
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i
The first-class run culture of its engine, the better road performances and impressing handiness are the crucial strengths of the BMW. In consumption it is however underlaid for the Mercedes.
Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Very good travelling comfort and small gasoline consumption speak for the Mercedes. Its loaded four-cylinder does not approach in road performances and run culture however to the six cylinder of the BMW.
Date: 12.09.2003
Text: Goetz Leyrer
Photo: Hans Dieter Seufert
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Body (100) 79 79
Control security (50) 41 43
Travelling comfort (100) 88 89
Drive (100) 58 55
Security (100) 89 87
Brakes (50) 41 37
Characteristic valuation (500) 396 390
Environment (50) 29 29
Costs (100) 88 86
Total valuation (650) 513 505
The original German page translated with babelfish, please scroll down to find the article (Better layout than below)
The original German page
BMW 520i against Mercedes E 200 K
The basis models of five-he row and e-class in the comparison: BMWS 520i and Mercedes E 200 compressor go into Design and technology different ways.
The BMW 520i does not possess a two-litre engine, but a 2,2-Liter-Triebwerk. The Mercedes E 200 has likewise no two litres capacity, but only for a sedan of this size of lean seeming 1.8 litres. BMW sets strong row six cylinder on 170 HP. Aufgepeppt it becomes by the variable controlling of its two cam shafts (Vanos), lying above.
With the Mercedes engine with 163 HP only four cylinders must be sufficient, because there is sufficient Viagra technology: two balance waves for eliminating vibrations, in addition, rotating with double crankshaft speed, a compressor propelled by the crankshaft by belts, in order to bring the achievement of the small engine on an according to rank level.
Mercedes compressor subjectively more strongly
The BMW engine shows to be expected as highest run culture. It winds up like a turbine, whereby no more than December width unit sums into the interior does not penetrate. There the Mercedes Vierzylinder does not come along.
It works by the employment of the compressor with accelerating from small numbers of revolutions subjectively more strongly than the BMWS. The 520i is actually however in all relevant road performance criteria superior: It accelerates better, and it obtains the better values with the measurement of the elasticity. From a passage strength, which earns this name, the speech cannot be also with it. The better road performances the BMW owes not only to the shorter translation, but above all its substantially smaller weight.
Available space in the rear of the BMW corresponds to that of the Mercedes.
BMW handling most remarkably
And because the six cylinder for brisk driving more is dependent on high numbers of revolutions than the loaded Mercedes Vierzylinder, it awards to contents of its gasoline tank more joyfully: 10.9 litres of the expensive super plus on 100 kilometers. The Mercedes needs only regular super, from which it processes 10.1 Liter/100 kilometer on the average in the test.
The sportier character of the BMW, which already its winding up engine obtains, becomes clear also with the handling characteristics. The fuenfer profited here clearly noticeably from its smaller weight and proves a handling, whose precision for a sedan of this order of magnitude is most remarkable on winding distances. The Mercedes works, also because of its not completely so accurate steering element, more behaebiger.
BMW brake with better pedal feeling
Differences in driving safety do not certainly result from it. The Mercedes obtains the somewhat better values with the driving dynamics tests even. Both digest problem-free high rates of turn, prove a reliable self-guidance behavior and in extreme cases by cleanly co-ordinated chassis electronics are in-braked. Good brakes supplement the picture, whereby the conventional brake assembly of the BMW obtain a far better pedal feeling than the electrohydraulical brake of the Mercedes.
Despite their differenten driving characteristic the two competitors offer a travelling comfort which is on similarly high level. The BMW with its stahlfederung absorbs unevenness nearly as supply as the Mercedes, which began with the surcharge-requiring pneumatic cushioning to the test.
Date: 12.09.2003
Text: Goetz Leyrer
Photo: Hans Dieter Seufert
Technical data
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Achievement 125 KW (170 HP) 120 KW (163 HP)
Acceleration 0-100 km/h 9.5 s 10.1 s
Elasticity 15.9 s 16.3 s
Maximum speed 230 km/h 230 km/h
Test consumption 10.9 L/100km 10.1 L/100km
Braking distance from 100 km/h 43 m 44 m
Basic price 35.100, - ? 38.895, - ?
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i
The first-class run culture of its engine, the better road performances and impressing handiness are the crucial strengths of the BMW. In consumption it is however underlaid for the Mercedes.
Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Very good travelling comfort and small gasoline consumption speak for the Mercedes. Its loaded four-cylinder does not approach in road performances and run culture however to the six cylinder of the BMW.
Date: 12.09.2003
Text: Goetz Leyrer
Photo: Hans Dieter Seufert
BMW 5er-Reihe 520i Mercedes e-class E 200 compressor Elegance
Body (100) 79 79
Control security (50) 41 43
Travelling comfort (100) 88 89
Drive (100) 58 55
Security (100) 89 87
Brakes (50) 41 37
Characteristic valuation (500) 396 390
Environment (50) 29 29
Costs (100) 88 86
Total valuation (650) 513 505
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