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In a year of unparallel disruption, it’s good to know that a new S-Class is on its way

- Pawan Dhingara

The arrival of a new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is always a bit of an occasion – for seven generations and nearly fifty years, it has been the impervious anchor point for motoring to continuously reflect upon and benchmark. The big S could in actual fact stand for Stability, Sense and Status; qualities in high demand from a market that seems uncertain of which direction it should turn to next. Now there’s a new one that Mercedes is obviously calling its most technologically advanced car.

The W223 derivative, if you’re a professor of Merc’s nomenclature, is bubbling with headline features that will soon feed down the hierarchy to the rest of the Mercedes model mix. But for now it registers the pinnacle of autonomous drive, electrification, safety and comfort – a position it’s not surrendering against the BMW 7 Series and Audi A8.