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Monster Machines: The World’s Fastest Electric Boat

What happens when you transfuse the 2200HP electric drive train from the world’s fastest and most powerful production electric car, the Mercedes SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive, into a 12m racing hull? You get the world’s fastest and most powerful production electric speed boat. Duh.

24 January 2013

Cars

Mercedes-Benz’s New Cars Will Recognise Street Signs You Miss

If the screams from pedestrians and the angry looks from oncoming drivers don’t provide enough clues that you’ve accidentally turned onto a one-way street, maybe it’s time you bought a Mercedes-Benz. Wait, what? The company’s upcoming vehicles will include an updated safety system that’s able to autonomously recognise no-entry signs and warn the driver of a wrong turn.

22 April 2012

Cars

The Mechanical Turn Signals On This Concept Car Look Like Fluttering Eyelashes

Until Pixar came along and ruined things, headlights were often seen as a vehicle’s eyes. But Mercedes-Benz refuses to give up on that anthropomorphic fantasy. Even to the point of designing a mechanical turn signal system in its new Concept Style Coupe that looks like fluttering, flirting eyelashes.

29 February 2012

Cars

Siri Will Command The New Mercedes A-Class

Mercedes-Benz has announced its plans to fully integrate the the driver’s iPhone as well as Siri assistant into future A-Class models. It’ll be like having your own personal, mildly incompetent HAL.

9 February 2012

Cars

Glowing Extending Buckles Eliminate Seat Belt Hide-And-Seek

It’s certainly a safety improvement, but Mercedes’ new active seat belt buckle should also eliminate the utterly annoying game of trying to find the connectors that have inevitably gotten stuck in-between the back seat cushions of a car.

16 January 2012

Cars

Mercedes Gesture Control Is No Fluffy DICE

Cars still have a long way to go before they reach the lofty heights set by science fiction films in the ’80s, but it’s good to know that Mercedes Benz is on the case. At CES last week the German auto company showed off its Dynamic & Intuitive Control Experience (DICE) control system, which could change the way we drive forever.

20 September 2011

Cars

France Sold Gaddafi An Electronics-Blasting Stealth Mercedes SUV

What do you buy when you’re an incredible rich, incredible paranoid, oppressive dictator? No, not Scud missiles — you already have those! How about a luxury truck that can’t be tracked and scrambles everything around it? Bien sur!

3 August 2011

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World’s Biggest Basket Lift Is Taller Than All Of Notre Dame

There must be a good reason you’d be in an open air basket 112m above the ground. Besides hot-air ballooning, you might be standing in a Bronto S-112 HLA, repairing hunchback damage atop the world’s most famous cathedral.

2 June 2011

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The Largest LEGO Technic Ever Is A Unimog

The European truck most noted for its complete badassedness is the Mercedes-Benz Unimog – a vehicle so large the company determined Americans would find it offensively huge. Now LEGO is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the truck by building a scale 2000+ piece version that’s the largest Technic set ever sold.

1 December 2010

Cars

Mercedes-Benz Thinks Cars Can Be Grown In Labs

The Los Angeles Design Challenge always brings some crazy idea, but this year one in particular caught our attention: the Mercedes-Benz BIOME concept car. It’s an eco-friendly, biodegradable, ultra-light hybrid vehicle – which would be custom grown in a lab.

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