Comfort.

Apart from allowing fully intuitive operation, the B-Class also keeps adapting to your needs and habits every day. It notes your route to the office, for example, and can offer a faster route automatically in case of a traffic jam. This all forms part of the revolutionary MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience). A multimedia system that keeps learning about you and your preferences. Until the B-Class knows you almost better than you do yourself.

You'll look in vain for conventional buttons and controls in the B-Class cockpit. All functions can be controlled intuitively. With a touchscreen or the touchpad, for example, which allow you to operate and adjust almost anything in the car using a single finger. These functions include the display styles, the ambient lighting or the infotainment system, for example. You can now also control these features directly via Touch Control on the steering wheel. All without having to take your hands off the wheel.

The cockpit welcomes you with two fully digital displays that present a fascinating spectacle as a single unit. This display unit exudes class and is simple to adapt to your needs. There is a choice of three display styles - "Classic", "Sport" and "Discreet Mode" - for example, which you can switch between according to your mood, the course of the journey or the given driving situation.

The B-Class understands you like no other car. In the truest sense of the word. Thanks to MBUX voice control, it listens to you and understands you without you having to learn any commands beforehand. And it does much more besides. It checks the weather at the destination for you, changes the radio station or takes you home via the fastest route. Reading out text messages, or dictating and sending them? It takes just two words from you - "Hey, Mercedes" - and the B-Class is all ears and ready for anything.

A clear view of the traffic situation for the driver remains one of the best safety systems. MBUX Augmented Reality for Navigation helps you to keep control of things even in complex traffic situations. To this end, the technology interlinks the virtual and real worlds to incorporate graphic navigation and traffic information into live images of the vehicle's surroundings which are shown to you on the media display. In this way, the system can help you to reach your destination more safely and with less stress.

4MATIC all-wheel drive is available for all engine variants of the B-Class, to provide for the best possible combination of dynamism, traction and efficiency in every situation. An electrohydraulic multi-plate clutch integrated in the rear-axle differential enables a variable torque split. This ranges from economical front-wheel drive only to a 50:50 split on snow or slippery road surfaces or in dynamic driving manoeuvres. For a safe and effortless journey to your destination, every time.

You can adapt the driving characteristics of the B-Class according to your wishes by means of the DYNAMIC SELECT drive programs. Depending on whether you prefer a particularly comfortable, sporty, economical or individual driving style, you have a choice of four programs - "Comfort", "Sport", "Eco" and "Individual". The system alters the characteristics of the engine, transmission, suspension, steering and air conditioning automatically at the touch of a button. For driving enjoyment just as you like it.

For more enjoyable cornering, a particularly economical driving style or the ultimate in comfort on long journeys: the suspension on the B-Class features an Adaptive Damping System which can adapt the wheel damping and the driving characteristics to your needs at any point on your journey. Just select one of the three profiles - "Sport", "Eco", or "Comfort" - via the DIRECT SELECT switch in the centre console. It's as if the B-Class had several different suspensions.

A cutting-edge generation of 4-cylinder petrol engines with cylinder shut-off is available for the B-Class. Two cylinders can be shut off automatically, specifically in the lower load and rev range. This saves fuel without any noticeable loss of power. As soon as the driver accelerates firmly, the cylinders go imperceptibly back into operation.