Safety improvement highlights adaptive two-stage airbags for the driver and front passenger, curtain side bags, belt tensioners, and belt-force limiters for all seats. It has more than two inches of extra front legroom, 1. Nearly everything else is changed or revised. . Active front-seat head restraints and Benz's PreSafe are standard.
The M-Class will be offered as a five-seater only and launches with the excellent four-valve 3. These models will share no body panels other than front doors and the windshield. For 2006, Mercedes will offer an off-road package with a two-speed transfer case. The all-new 2006 M-Class has plenty of the old model's design language, so you can instantly recognize what it is. But under the longer, lower, wider, and subtly modernized sheetmetal is an all-new unibody platform. .
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