Geneva preview: First Merc direct injection engine debuts in CLS
Newswheel staff :: 25 February 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz CLS, Europe & UK, US
Better late than never. M-B has jumped on the petrol direct injection bandwagon. Of course, calling it plain old direct injection won’t do, so it’s stratified-charged gasoline injection, or CGI for short, in Mercedes-Benz parlance. Anyway, Merc’s first DI engine has been dropped into the slinky CLS four-door coupe just in time for next week’s Geneva shindig. And the good news is that it’s both more powerful and more fuel efficient than the engine it replaces. Cross your fingers, folks, we may yet escape creeping death by diesel…
