The E-Class Experience: First Week Of Long Distance Drive From Paris To Beijing Complete

Posted by www.eMercedesBenz.com on October 30th, 2006

Over the weekend those that embarked on the first leg of Mercedes' E- Class Experience from Paris to Beijing completed their trek, traveling some 2,200 miles before arriving in the historic city of St. Petersburg.

For many of the participants, the experience of sojourning through Eastern Europe was a surprising one. "In my head I still have magazine photos of grey buildings and sad-looking people" said Javier Reynagas, a 40-year reporter from the Mexican daily newspaper "El Economista. "Now I am seeing happy faces all around me." Iris Zimmermanns, selected from over 50,000 online applicants that entered to take part in the event, "was amazed to discover how may people there speak excellent English."

Although the E-Class Experience is ending for these participants, it's just getting started for drivers taking part in the second leg of the event. Scheduled to take five days, part two of the journey has drivers traveling from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg, Russia's fifth largest city.

From there, three additional legs will take place, with a total of 360 drivers from 35 different nations eventually having taken part in the journey when it concludes in Beijing on November 17th.

We will of course keep you posted as the E-Class Experience progresses; in the meantime, visit www.eMercedesBenz.com for photos of the E-Class fleet entering St. Petersburg along with the full press release detailing the event.

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