The institute usually tests cars individually but in this case paired the Honda Fit with a Honda Accord, the Toyota Yaris with a Toyota Camry and the Smart Fortwo with a Mercedes C-Class.

该协会通常只进行单车测试，但是，此次测试采用了两车对撞测试方式，本田飞度对本田雅阁、丰田雅力士对丰田佳美，奔驰精灵对梅赛德斯C级轿车。

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For its part, Mercedes seems intent on offering high-performance versions of every vehicle it makes, even shoehorning a 6.3-litre engine into its mid-size C-class saloon.

而梅塞德斯似乎热衷为旗下每个型号的产品推出更高性能的版本，甚至把6.3公升的发动机塞进中型的C级轿车。

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It's a similar situation for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the more modestly priced Benz ($33,675), with an average 29 days' supply of cars.

奔驰C系也面临着同样的情况，$33,675这样更为合理的定价，它的平均存货日为29天。

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Thus, Cadillac introduced the ATS which was designed specifically to take on entry level luxury cars such as BMW 3 series, Audi A4 and the Mercedes C-Class.

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But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.

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That's also more than double the number of A4s Audi will sell this year (and more than all the cars Audi will sell in the U.S. in 2003), 45, 000 more units than Mercedes has sold of its C-Class, and, although G35 sales have nearly doubled in 2003, they still lag 3 series numbers by nearly 45, 000 cars.

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