Posts Tagged ‘Mercedes’
60-Years of Mercedes-Benz SL
At the recent Oscars last week, Mercedes-Benz USA released an ‘SL Art’ themed campaign, celebrating the SL’s illustrious 60-years history. The campaign kicked off with the 17th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, which featured a 1966 W194 300SL. The SL, through all its previous eight generations were some of Hollywood’s favourite cars. The SL has played [...]
Self Extending and Retracting Active Belt Buckle from Mercedes
Coming soon in one of Mercedes-Benz’s upcoming model (most probably the new S-class, to be released sometime this year) is a rear seat belt buckle that automatically moves, extends 70 mm and emerges from the seats whenever the rear doors are opened, and retracting by 40 mm via an electric motor. Once belted, the belt [...]
Outrageous Taxis
Much have been written about BMW’s Ring Taxi (it is not the only taxi service in the Nurburgring), but on this side of the racing circuit’s fence, there are quite a number of out of this world taxi services that creative marketers and brave manufacturers have put out on the road. Say you are an [...]
Campos and his red Benz
If you are into classic cars, you will surely know Tan Sri Datuk Eugenio Campos, a local automobile connoisseur and ardent three pointed star enthusiast. Even if you do not know him, you must have seen his famous red 1936 Mercedes Benz 500K. The letter “K” represents the German word “Kompressor”, which is the supercharger technology incorporated [...]
Record Breaking 2011 for Mercedes-Benz Cars
2011 may have been a bad year for the financial markets, but as the whole ‘We are the 99 percent’ civil movement goes to show, the rich felt none of the repercussions of a collapsing job market and continued their parties. Mercedes-Benz Cars, a divison of Daimler which includes Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, smart and Maybach [...]
Mercedes-Benz to build engines at Nissan plant
Daimler-Benz has announced the confirmation of 4-cylinder Mercedes-Benz petrol engines to be built at Nissan’s Tennessee plant In America from 2014. According to Daimler-Benz the engines produced from this plant is destined for the American-built C-Class sedans. This collaboration is the latest step in Daimler-Benz’s strategic collaboration with the Nissan-Renault Alliance which started in April [...]
2014 B9 Audi A4 and W205 Mercedes C-class
With the new F30 generation 3-series, BMW is expected to retain, and maybe even widen its lead over arch-rivals Audi A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-class. Both the A4 and C-class are already at the end of their product lifecycle, with the A4 due a minor model update in 2012. The C-class have just been updated this [...]
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