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The new E-class from Mercedes-Benz wins the highest accolade in innovative car body engineering – the EuroCarBody Award
On the occasion of the 11th international car body benchmark conference EuroCarBody, 20 – 22 October 2009 in Bad Nauheim/Germany, a total of 9 new series car bodies from Europe and Asia were benchmarked by roughly 400 international automotive experts of car body development, process planning and manufacturing.
Each car body was scrutinized according to 23 benchmarking criteria, comprehensively presented and discussed by the forum of international conference participants.
The results at a glance:
Rank
Series car body
Points
1
Mercedes-Benz – the new E-class
38,08
2
Jaguar – the new XJ
37,99
3
Audi – the new R8 Spyder
37,48
Further participants (in alphabetical order)
BMW AG – the new 5 series GT
Honda R&D Co. Ltd. – the new Insight
Lotus Engineering – the new Evora
Adam Opel GmbH – the new Astra
Škoda Auto . – the new Yeti
Volkswagen AG – the new Polo
First place at the EuroCarBody Award 2009 goes to the new E-class from Mercedes-Benz
This year, receiving of max. 50 points, the highest vote of all benchmarked contestants, the new e-class from Mercedes-Benz won 1st place and was awarded the worldwide most prestigious prize for innovative car body engineering, the EuroCarBody Award.
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