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Autocar, a well-known UK magazine, has recently presented its prestigious “Safety and Technology Award” to Mercedes Benz, a German brand of automobile owned by Daimler AG (the world’s thirteenth largest car manufacturer), at a ceremony in London. It is a form of recognition to the forward-looking drive system – the innovative DIESOTTO concept – Mercedes Benz has developed.

Chas Hallet, an editor of Autocar, has acknowledged the development success of the DIESOTTO concept being an impressive leading-edge technology that comes with a high degree of practicability and the potential to ensure a bright future for not just the automotive industry, but for the motorists as well.

Dr. Gunter Karl, who is responsible for advanced petrol engine design in the Group Research & Advanced Engineering Powertrain, does the honors of accepting the award. He said, “Our DIESOTTO concept shows how, in the medium term, a petrol engine can be made just as efficient as its diesel counterpart and how the internal combustion engine will remain a key drive concept when it comes to meeting private-transport requirements.” “We are very pleased to receive the Autocar award. For us, it represents confirmation from an independent source, highlighting the fact that this technology is set to play an important part in ensuring mobility in tomorrow’s world. It encourages us to continue working intensively in order to achieve this aim,” he added.

The DIESOTTO drive system is combined with a hybrid module, just like how it is features in the Mercedes Benz F 700. Doing so allows the system to show that a large and comfortable touring saloon has the capacity to return a fuel-consumption figure of just 5.3 liters per 100 kilometers; thus, enables a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions, without compromising the comfort and pleasure of driving.

Karl said, “Today we already aspects such as direct petrol injection in our latest models, for example in the Mercedes-Benz E 350 CGI and in the Mercedes Benz CLS 350 CGI. During subsequent stages of development, further DIESOTTO modules will be gradually phased into series-production development.”

DIESOTTO technology is an innovative development of the internal combustion engine. It has its first appearance in the Mercedes Benz F 700 research vehicle at the 2007 International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt.