Mercedes-Benz S-Class

The ‘Best Car in the World’ just got a lot better

- Bertrand D’souza

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class has been around for seven generations. First named as the S-Class in the early 1970s, its DNA can be traced to almost two decades before its introduction. Ever since its debut in 1972, the S-Class has been a pioneer in the automotive industry. It led the way by enveloping ‘first in industry’ features; be it safety, comfort, convenience, technology, engineering, and design. The interesting bit is that the S-Class has been so ahead of its time, it used to take almost a decade before it got dated and a whole new S-Class was reborn. Consumer demands and fast-changing technology, however, changed all that and in the last couple of decades we have seen refreshes and updates flowing in in shorter intervals.

Now there is a new S-Class, a new generation of Mercedes’ flagship, and one that significantly broadens the goalposts. And it does this through significant revisions to the mechanical parts but more importantly with a host of features that brings in a whole new dimension to comfort, luxury, and entertainment through biometrics, digitisation and level 3 autonomy.