E Classy

did about 80% highway driving over the last week and a half and comfortably went 741 miles using 17.89 gallons of diesel. this works out to 41.4mpg for the fill-up. i've been tracking on fuelly.

the car felt great as a long-distance commuter over 4 days, but my "road ***" doesn't feel so nice. maybe i need to build up a tolerance, but would prefer if MB put some tempurpedic material in the seat bottom, or something like that.

the porcelain leather seats seem to be taking a blue beat down from my jeans. here is a quick pic that hopefully shows it:

Airmousam

That is impressive!!

DerekACS

Very impressive mileage and range !!!

Too bad about the indigo transfer to the porcelain leather.

BenzV12

Great records in deed
I have also heard of X204 GLK's ARTICO seats transferring color from jeans namely on dark ones .
Being black color trim in my car I don't have that problem however I wear lol

J.M.G.

The best I could do with an rental '12 E 250 CDI Wagon (S212):


48mpg
40mph average
90 miles back road driving

E Classy

thanks guys!

i should note that the seats clean up very quickly with a simple interior or leather cleaner. it's just the frequency of the needed cleaning that can be tedious.

mikemargolis

great mileage, certainly better than my 6cyl. Most miles on a tank has been 725 for me, that's in 30,000 miles of keeping track.

BACnMercedes

Would your passengers be tolerant if you drove in the nude?
Just to protect your seats.

Impressive #'s though.

jumpman726

OP, do you have the multi-contour seats? Or just the standard seats? I find the multi-contour seats to be much more comfortable and supportive especially for long highway drives. When I had a GLK loaner with the standard seats my butt started to ache after about an hour of driving. Because of that experience I would never buy another Benz without the multi-contour seat option.

pdjv

Great mileage. Jeans are tough on light colored seats - the ash leather in my '04 E class showed lots of blue from jeans. Get one of those cheap seat towel things (dealers in the DC metro area all seem to have them) to save your seats.

Sage555

I have the same issue on my tan mbtex seats

E Classy

yeah the e diesels are terrific on the highways. i think the 4-cyl was almost necessary to get the city range up, and it still goes pretty low at 28mpg between the stoplights.


"the nudist driver" i would have to get mr. joe's beloved nappa surfacing first


i have the standards and i changed the position around the other day to help out. seems to have helped a bunch. it's normal to move around and i think my position was too close to the wheel to allow me to wiggle.




i'm gonna think about it, because it is mildly annoying to clean it so much. porcelain seats do look dope, though.

sharpxia

I always get about 30MPG on my E550, it is better than my E350 can get. Loved the DI and turbo engine.