Mercedes Benz has unveiled the all-new Tourrider, a tailor-made motor coach exclusively for Northern American markets. The 2022 Mercedes Benz Tourrider has set a new benchmark in terms of design, comfort, technology, safety features, individuality, or economics. The new Tourrider is a 13.92 metre long three-axle high-deck coach which is offered in two model variants – Tourrider Business and Tourrider Premium. The Tourrider Business is the coach for sophisticated expectations, the “Business Class” among motorcoaches while the Tourrrider Premium is the luxury motorcoach that fulfills all the expectations of the “First Class”.
Muscle car inspired exteriors
The 2022 Tourrider looks distinctive with its chrome-framed grille with centrally-placed star and the typical horizontal arrangement with headlamps on one level. Although the housings are identical, the motorcoach has different “eyes:” while the Tourrider Business uses individual dome headlamps, the Tourrider Premium, on the other hand, makes use of exclusively developed LED integral headlamps. The rear of the Tourrider Premium features a trapezoidal rear window with integrated Mercedes star typical of the brand. The Mercedes Benz Tourrider Business sports a V-shaped black cover panel with louvers that pay homage to the shape of early American muscle cars. The new Tourrider also combines form and function. From the front to the rear, the Mercedes Benz Tourrider has been aerodynamically optimized to reduce fuel consumption.
Panorama glass roof
The Tourrider Premium offers the option of installing the fascinating Top Sky Panorama glass roof to turn the passenger compartment into a true dream. During evening or night-time journeys, optional ambient LED lighting strips below the luggage racks and under the window sills further enhance the ambiance and rider experience.
Individually equipped passenger compartment
In terms of interior, passengers benefit from generous space, especially aboard the Tourrider Premium with its passenger compartment raised by 2.36 inches (6.0 cm) compared with the Tourrider Business. Additionally, everyone is welcome in the Tourrider and that’s why it can be optioned with two wheelchair spaces. The corresponding automatic lift is easy to operate and is stowed in a space-saving way above the drive axle.
As standard equipment, the Mercedes Benz Tourrider Business is equipped with the comfortable Mercedes Benz Travel Star Eco seats. Meanwhile, the Tourrider Premium enjoys first class seating in the form of Travel Star Xtra seats with Luxline upholstery, the most luxurious motorcoach seating available from Mercedes-Benz. Motorcoach companies can individually enhance the Tourrider’s extraordinary character with an extremely diverse range of fabrics and colors, decors, topstitching, piping or the variants of the fine, yet easy-care, composition leather fiber material. Buyers can also choose the design for the decorative elements on-board. And finally, passengers enjoy options such as a twin USB socket installed centrally underneath each of the double seats and/or 110-volt sockets for charging their electronic devices.
Tourrider engineers has also placed great emphasis on optimising passenger compartment heating and air conditioning. Pleasant cooling even during periods of high ambient temperature is ensured by the powerful integrated air conditioning system from Eberspaecher/Sütrak with an output of 35 kW. Plus, the driver’s workplace also benefits from a separate 9 kW air conditioning system.
New cockpit
