MOTORTREND NAMES MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS 2025 CAR OF THE YEAR
MotorTrend Group, a Warner Bros. Discovery company, announced today the Mercedes-Benz E-Class as its 2025 Car of the Year award winner. The new E-Class, available as both a sedan and wagon-crossover, claimed the top spot amongst competitors for its elegant, refreshed design, excellent performance, and technology.
Both the E350 and E450 models feature significant advancements in exterior and interior design. Refined over decades and now in its 10th-generation, the E-Class merges elements from both the S-Class and C-Class while establishing its own identity. The new E-Class is more thoughtfully designed around its occupants than ever before, demonstrated, for instance, through the sophisticated infotainment system, the center console's hidden wireless phone slot, foldaway front cupholders, and its spacious, practical cabin layout.
Following the trend of software evolution in modern cars, the E-Class features the latest version of the MBUX user interface, a system aided by artificial intelligence software developed in-house that now uses a single powerful processor to allow for innovative, user-friendly features. The newly updated system offers increasingly seamless over-the-air updates to the infotainment system and the addition of third-party apps such as Zoom (via an optional dash-mounted cabin-facing camera), TikTok, YouTube, and the Vivaldi web browser, all of which are already available on the E-Class.
"The meticulous and thoughtful changes that went into the 2024 E-Class are easily notable and incredibly impactful, which left the MotorTrend team thoroughly impressed," said Ed Loh, MotorTrend Group's Head of Editorial. "The E-Class met the mark across all six of our judging criteria and was undeniably the inner when compared to other vehicles in the segment."
MotorTrend's expert team of editors and guest judges also noted the enhanced engineering that benefits the E-Class, focusing on ride comfort, stability, and efficiency, with elevated driver assistance features. The E-Class offers a sublime driving experience with great acceleration and handling characteristics. Its performance metrics and safety ratings further bolster its status as one of the best midsize luxury cars of the 21st century.
Each MotorTrend Car of the Year competitor is judged against MotorTrend's six key criteria: safety, value, advancement in design, engineering excellence, efficiency, and performance of intended function.
For a more in-depth analysis of why the Mercedes-Benz E-Class was named 2025 Car of the Year, please visit MotorTrend's Car of the Year award story here.
Becoming the MotorTrend Car, Truck, SUV, or Performance Vehicle of the Year is a crowning achievement in the automotive world, a testament to the unparalleled prestige and long-standing tradition of these awards. MotorTrend stands alone in its commitment to exhaustively evaluate and track-test vehicles for these coveted honors, a practice it has upheld with dedication since its inception in 1949 for the Car of the Year award. The Truck of the Year award was added in 1978, SUV of the Year in 1999, and Performance Vehicle of the Year in 2022, in recognition of an ever-evolving market. MotorTrend's iconic Golden Calipers trophy symbolizes excellence and serves as a powerful marketing tool, a testament to the awards' impact on the automotive industry and consumers alike.
SOURCE MotorTrend Group
Both the E350 and E450 models feature significant advancements in exterior and interior design. Refined over decades and now in its 10th-generation, the E-Class merges elements from both the S-Class and C-Class while establishing its own identity. The new E-Class is more thoughtfully designed around its occupants than ever before, demonstrated, for instance, through the sophisticated infotainment system, the center console's hidden wireless phone slot, foldaway front cupholders, and its spacious, practical cabin layout.
Following the trend of software evolution in modern cars, the E-Class features the latest version of the MBUX user interface, a system aided by artificial intelligence software developed in-house that now uses a single powerful processor to allow for innovative, user-friendly features. The newly updated system offers increasingly seamless over-the-air updates to the infotainment system and the addition of third-party apps such as Zoom (via an optional dash-mounted cabin-facing camera), TikTok, YouTube, and the Vivaldi web browser, all of which are already available on the E-Class.
"The meticulous and thoughtful changes that went into the 2024 E-Class are easily notable and incredibly impactful, which left the MotorTrend team thoroughly impressed," said Ed Loh, MotorTrend Group's Head of Editorial. "The E-Class met the mark across all six of our judging criteria and was undeniably the inner when compared to other vehicles in the segment."
MotorTrend's expert team of editors and guest judges also noted the enhanced engineering that benefits the E-Class, focusing on ride comfort, stability, and efficiency, with elevated driver assistance features. The E-Class offers a sublime driving experience with great acceleration and handling characteristics. Its performance metrics and safety ratings further bolster its status as one of the best midsize luxury cars of the 21st century.
Each MotorTrend Car of the Year competitor is judged against MotorTrend's six key criteria: safety, value, advancement in design, engineering excellence, efficiency, and performance of intended function.
For a more in-depth analysis of why the Mercedes-Benz E-Class was named 2025 Car of the Year, please visit MotorTrend's Car of the Year award story here.
Becoming the MotorTrend Car, Truck, SUV, or Performance Vehicle of the Year is a crowning achievement in the automotive world, a testament to the unparalleled prestige and long-standing tradition of these awards. MotorTrend stands alone in its commitment to exhaustively evaluate and track-test vehicles for these coveted honors, a practice it has upheld with dedication since its inception in 1949 for the Car of the Year award. The Truck of the Year award was added in 1978, SUV of the Year in 1999, and Performance Vehicle of the Year in 2022, in recognition of an ever-evolving market. MotorTrend's iconic Golden Calipers trophy symbolizes excellence and serves as a powerful marketing tool, a testament to the awards' impact on the automotive industry and consumers alike.
SOURCE MotorTrend Group
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