LED High Performance Headlamps on New Mercedes-Benz CLS

Mercedes-Benz has launched a new season for CLS, the four door coupé which first debuted in 2003. The CLS will hit roads across the Middle East region this month.
With new design elements inspired by the breakthrough SLS AMG super sports car, the CLS sports a new scowl courtesy of LED High Performance headlamps, and will be available to the image elite as a V6 CLS 350, a V8 CLS 500, or a supercharged bi-turbo V8 CLS 63.
Mercedes-Benz creation in 2003 of a new category that combined the elegance and dynamism of a coupé with the comfort and functionality of a saloon, delighted customers and stunned the German automotive manufacturer's competition.
"Customers across the Middle East and the globe have rewarded us for our courage in launching a new vehicle concept onto the market," explains Frank Bernthaler, Director, Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz Cars, Middle East & Levant. "And with its design and sportiness, the new edition of the CLS also benefits from the fact that we are a whole generation ahead of the competition with our four-door Coupé."
LED High Performance headlamps: greater visibility and full functionality
The CLS is the first passenger car in the world to offer LED High Performance headlamps, which comes as standard in the GCC specification model. The headlamps combine the exciting colour elements of LED technology - similar to those of daytime running lamps - with the performance, functionality and energy efficiency of today's bi-xenon generation (as an optional extra).
This new light system provides, for the first time ever, the Intelligent Light Sys-tem already proven in Mercedes models fitted with bi-xenon headlamps in combination with LED technology. The headlamps, with their 71 LED lamps in total, look exciting; and they serve to underline the unmistakable appearance of the CLS. The light specialists from Mercedes-Benz have for the first time been able to use LED technology in the admired and innovative Adaptive Highbeam Assist, resulting in an entirely new level of safety for night-time driving.
In contrast to the first vehicles equipped with LED headlamps, no compromises are now necessary with respect to the functionality and performance of the lighting technology. There are further arguments for the new, LED-based lighting technology: the average operating life of an LED is around 10,000 hours, around five times longer than that of a xenon light; moreover, LED headlamps most closely approximate to the colour of daylight.
This means that LED light is in keeping with the normal human perception pat-terns, and that the driver experiences significantly more brightness on the road at night. Studies have shown that the closer the colour of artificial light comes to daylight, the less the strain on the eyes. With a colour temperature of 5500 Kelvin, LED light is closer to daylight (6500 K) than xenon light (4200 K).