Name: Mercedes-Benz Inspiration
Brand: Mercedes-Benz

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The B-Class

The times of justifying yourself are over.

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The B-Class

The times of justifying yourself are over.

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Vehicle highlights

We have re-invented the family car.

The B-Class is here. More dynamic, more comfortable and safer than ever.

Vehicle highlights

We have re-invented the family car.

The B-Class is here. More dynamic, more comfortable and safer than ever.

The image shows a front side view of the new B-Class.

New-generation driving assistance systems

Because safety is sometimes everything.

The B-Class is equipped with assistance systems to make even easier work of driving. Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC, for example, which can automatically keep the required distance from the vehicle ahead, or Active Brake Assist, which can apply the brakes in an emergency. So you know you and your family are always in the best of hands.

^{*Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC is optionally available as part of the Driver Assistance Package. Active Brake Assist offered as standard.}

New-generation driving assistance systems

Because safety is sometimes everything.

The B-Class is equipped with assistance systems to make even easier work of driving. Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC, for example, which can automatically keep the required distance from the vehicle ahead, or Active Brake Assist, which can apply the brakes in an emergency. So you know you and your family are always in the best of hands.

^{*Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC is optionally available as part of the Driver Assistance Package. Active Brake Assist offered as standard.}

Stylish interior in "wrap-around" design.

Surround yourself with only the best.

The B-Class welcomes you with an interior setting that is without parallel in this vehicle class. In high-quality "wrap-around" design. The transitions between dashboard, centre console and door trim are fluid. All this adds up to a delightfully "cocooned" feel inside.

Stylish interior in "wrap-around" design.

Surround yourself with only the best.

The B-Class welcomes you with an interior setting that is without parallel in this vehicle class. In high-quality "wrap-around" design. The transitions between dashboard, centre console and door trim are fluid. All this adds up to a delightfully "cocooned" feel inside.

The image shows the stylish interior of the new Mercedes-Benz B-Class.

Widescreen Cockpit with LINGUATRONIC voice control system

Talking makes everything so much easier.

At the office, in the family and now also in the B-Class, which now comes with natural, intuitive voice recognition. If you so wish, you can also carry out your most important settings by touchscreen or touchpad. Whatever suits you best.

Widescreen Cockpit with LINGUATRONIC voice control system

Talking makes everything so much easier.

At the office, in the family and now also in the B-Class, which now comes with natural, intuitive voice recognition. If you so wish, you can also carry out your most important settings by touchscreen or touchpad. Whatever suits you best.

The image shows the cockpit with steering wheel in the new Mercedes-Benz B-Class.

Impressions

Ready for the time of your life?

The B-Class is open to everything: discover a car that shares you love of the new.

Impressions

Ready for the time of your life?

The B-Class is open to everything: discover a car that shares you love of the new.

Style Line/AMG Line

As you like it.

Emphatically sporty or dynamically modern: you set the tone for the exterior of the B-Class. You can opt for the Style Line or upgrade to the optional AMG Line. And you can combine these as you wish with optional equipment and packages to make the B-Class your very own signature B-Class.

Style Line/AMG Line

As you like it.

Emphatically sporty or dynamically modern: you set the tone for the exterior of the B-Class. You can opt for the Style Line or upgrade to the optional AMG Line. And you can combine these as you wish with optional equipment and packages to make the B-Class your very own signature B-Class.

The image shows the new Mercedes-Benz B-Class with AMG Line.

The image shows the new Mercedes-Benz B-Class with Style Line

Widescreen Cockpit with intuitive operating concept

Spoilt for choice at your fingertips.

The state-of-the-art Widescreen Cockpit welcomes you with two fully digital displays that present a fascinating spectacle. The new combination of voice control, touchscreen, touchpad and Touch Control in the steering wheel also offers even greater scope for individual operation - whatever suits you best.

Widescreen Cockpit with intuitive operating concept

Spoilt for choice at your fingertips.

The state-of-the-art Widescreen Cockpit welcomes you with two fully digital displays that present a fascinating spectacle. The new combination of voice control, touchscreen, touchpad and Touch Control in the steering wheel also offers even greater scope for individual operation - whatever suits you best.

The image shows a close-up of the steering wheel in the new B-Class.

Vehicle design

The second-best reason for starting a family.

The B-Class is more thrillingly sporty and dynamic than ever.

Vehicle design

The second-best reason for starting a family.

The B-Class is more thrillingly sporty and dynamic than ever.

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High-quality materials

High-quality materials

Every detail is just right here: seats, trim, air vents, steering wheel and in particular the instrument panel. How does that come about? The interior of the B-Class is individually adaptable to your personal taste. A wealth of colour options and the finest materials are available, according to your individual wishes and the chosen equipment line. After all, you know best what you like.

Safety

Because safety is sometimes everything.

The B-Class is equipped with intelligent assistance systems and functions to protect you even more effectively while on the move and help take the strain out of driving. They can identify dangers automatically, for example, and provide corresponding warnings or even intervene with corrective actions. This means you and your passengers are always in the best of hands.

Safety

Because safety is sometimes everything.

The B-Class is equipped with intelligent assistance systems and functions to protect you even more effectively while on the move and help take the strain out of driving. They can identify dangers automatically, for example, and provide corresponding warnings or even intervene with corrective actions. This means you and your passengers are always in the best of hands.

Driving Assistance package

All eyes on the traffic: the Driving Assistance package combines cutting-edge safety and assistance systems which may identify dangers, provide warnings or even initiate braking in emergencies.

In this way, the B-Class is able to provide support particularly in monotonous and unclear situations. On long journeys, in traffic jams, at roundabouts or junctions, for example. This is made possible by highly sensitive radar sensors, a special 3D camera and the high-resolution cockpit display which allows you to keep all functions in view.

*Driving assistance package available as optimal equipment.

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Parking package with 360° camera

With the optional Parking Package with 360° Camera, parking has never been so easy. Four cameras present a realistic 360° view of the area around the car on the media display.

From a practical bird's eye perspective. So you have a clear view of everything at all times. Even areas that are normally difficult for the driver to see, such as to the side of the vehicle, directly in front of the vehicle or obstacles below the window line.

* Available as part of the optional Vision Package

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MULTIBEAM LED

Apart from setting a new benchmark in design, the MULTIBEAM LED headlamps also illuminate the road better than any conventional headlamps. This means you can recognise dangers even more quickly.

How it works: the LED headlamps react automatically to changing surroundings or weather conditions. They adapt the light pattern to the new situation in a matter of milliseconds. Fast, flexible and precise, they provide for especially bright illumination spanning a particularly broad area without dazzling other road users.

*Available as part of the optional Vision Package.

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Active Braking Assist

Active Brake Assist may help to prevent rear-end collisions. It can provide visual and audible warnings when you are too close to the vehicle in front, assist with braking or even carry out fully autonomous braking.

This may prevent accidents or lessen their severity. The system may also brake the vehicle up to speeds of approximately 60 km/h, even in the event of standing vehicles and crossing pedestrians. Depending on the situation, this can even prevent collisions up to a speed of 50 km/h.

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*Various safety systems and features included in Mercedes-Benz vehicles are driver assistance aids only and the driver at all times remains solely responsible for maintaining proper control of the vehicle, ensuring safety and monitoring the driving environment and complying with all applicable road rules.

Practicality

Come closer.

And see what the B-Class holds in store: the ultimate in seating comfort, space and flexibility in the load compartment.

Practicality

Come closer.

And see what the B-Class holds in store: the ultimate in seating comfort, space and flexibility in the load compartment.

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Low loading edge

The image shows a side view of the all new B-Class with open driver's door.

Comfortable entry

The image shows the folded-down rear seats in the all new Mercedes-Benz B-Class.

Folding rear seats.

Comfort

Sit back and relax.

The B-Class sets a new benchmark in safe and comfortable everyday driving. Find out for yourself.

Comfort

Sit back and relax.

The B-Class sets a new benchmark in safe and comfortable everyday driving. Find out for yourself.

HANDS-FREE ACCESS

Das Video veranschaulicht die Funktion des Hands-Free Access in der neuen B-Klasse.

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HANDS-FREE ACCESS: for hands-free opening and closing of the boot lid.

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HANDS-FREE ACCESS

Enables convenient loading and unloading of the B-Class.

Whether you want to load the weekend shopping or your skiing gear, HANDS-FREE ACCESS allows you to open and close the boot lid on the B-Class without any contact with the vehicle. A simple foot gesture in the area under the rear bumper is all it takes to trigger automatic opening or closing of the boot lid. This is particularly useful when you have your hands full or don't have a free hand to close the boot lid.

*Offered as standard equipment

Multicontour seats

Multicontour seats.

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Multicontour seats: for superior seated comfort.

Multicontour seats.

With integrated massage function for driver and front passenger.

For the first time, the B-Class offers the driver and front passenger the choice of a multicontour seat offering the ultimate in seated comfort and lateral support. Inflatable air chambers enable side bolsters and lumbar support to be adjusted conveniently to individual wishes via the touchscreen display. The massage function is an even more pleasant feature. The chambers in the lumbar area pulsate by inflating and deflating again in alternation. Giving your back just the consideration it deserves.

*Available as optional equipment.

MBUX

Everything is different here, yet so familiar.

Discover a supremely intuitive operating concept that keeps adapting ever more precisely to your needs and habits every day.

MBUX

Everything is different here, yet so familiar.

Discover a supremely intuitive operating concept that keeps adapting ever more precisely to your needs and habits every day.

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MBUX

Apart from its fully intuitive operation, the B-Class also keeps adapting to your needs and habits every day. It notes your route to the office, for example, and can offer a faster route automatically in case of a traffic jam. This all forms part of the revolutionary MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience). A multimedia system that keeps learning about you and your preferences. Until the B-Class knows you almost better than you do yourself.

Touch operating concept

You won't find any conventional buttons and controls in the B-Class cockpit. Everything is new here. The touchscreen or the touchpad, for example, which allow you to operate and adjust almost anything in the car using a single finger. The display styles, the ambient lighting or the infotainment system, for example. You can now also control these features directly via Touch Control on the steering wheel. All without having to take your hands off the wheel.

Display styles

The cockpit welcomes you with two fully digital displays that present a fascinating spectacle as a single unit. This display unit exudes class and is simple to adapt to your needs. There is a choice of three display styles - "Classic", "Sport" and "Discreet Mode" - for example, which you can switch between according to your mood, the course of the journey or the given driving situation.

Voice control

The B-Class understands you like no other car. In the truest sense of the word. Thanks to new MBUX voice control, it listens to you and understands you without you having to learn any commands beforehand. And it does much more besides. It checks the weather at the destination for you, changes the radio station or takes you home on the fastest route. Reading out text messages, or dictating one and sending it? It takes just two words from you - "Hey, Mercedes" - and the B-Class is all ears and ready for anything.

Augmented Video

A clear view of the traffic situation for the driver remains one of the best safety systems. MBUX augmented reality for navigation helps you to keep control of things even in complex traffic situations. To this end, the technology interlinks the virtual and real worlds to incorporate graphic navigation and traffic information into live images of the vehicle's surroundings which are shown to you on the media display. In this way, the system can help you to reach your destination more safely and with less stress.

Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive

Energising comfort and exemplary safety.

In the rush hour, during a long drive at night or on an unfamiliar route, your all new B-Class noticeably takes the strain out of driving, particularly in stressful situations. This is based on a concept that makes every journey in a Mercedes-Benz safer and unique: Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive. Because the time you spend behind the wheel is your time. Time for relaxation. Time to replenish your energy. So that, first and foremost, you reach your destination safely, but are also relaxed when you get there.

Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive

Energising comfort and exemplary safety.

In the rush hour, during a long drive at night or on an unfamiliar route, your all new B-Class noticeably takes the strain out of driving, particularly in stressful situations. This is based on a concept that makes every journey in a Mercedes-Benz safer and unique: Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive. Because the time you spend behind the wheel is your time. Time for relaxation. Time to replenish your energy. So that, first and foremost, you reach your destination safely, but are also relaxed when you get there.

The image shows Active Distance Assist on the instrument cluster of the all new B-Class.

Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC

Active Braking Assist

Driving Assistance package

Blind Spot Assist

Traffic Sign Assist

DYNAMIC SELECT

Comfort suspension

Comfort suspension with lowering function

Parking package with 360° camera

Parking Package with reversing camera

Adaptive Highbeam Assist

LED High Performance headlamps

MULTIBEAM LED

[1] Various safety systems and features included in Mercedes-Benz vehicles are driver assistance aids only and the driver at all times remains solely responsible for maintaining proper control of the vehicle, ensuring safety and monitoring the driving environment and complying with all applicable road rules. [2] Traffic Sign Assist is a driver assistance aid only and may not be accurate in all instances. The driver at all times remains solely responsible for monitoring the driving environment and observing all traffic and / or speed signs as well as complying with all applicable road rules.

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Brochures & Specifications

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Photos and films

The all new B-Class gallery.

There's no such thing as young or old in the all new B-Class. 'Open-minded' and 'adventurous' are the attributes that spring to mind. See for yourself.

Photos and films

The all new B-Class gallery.

There's no such thing as young or old in the all new B-Class. 'Open-minded' and 'adventurous' are the attributes that spring to mind. See for yourself.