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RENNtech Mercedes C63 AMG SPEC.R and Its Radar Jamming System Get a Test Drive
8:20AM Sean Fallon | Jalopnik had the honour of test driving the RENNtech Mercedes C63 AMG SPEC.R. It’s a beautiful car, but one of the most interesting features is the radar jamming system built into the rear-view mirror. More »
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Mercedes F-CELL Roadster Concept Is As Beautiful As It Is Impractical
9:37PM John Herrman | 150 Mercedes-Benz trainees teamed up for a year to engineer, design and build the F-CELL roadster, and the resulting car—despite being built on bike wheels and only going 24kph—is stunning. More »
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Mercedes Attention Assist Fights Drowsy Driving With Coffee Breaks, Alarms
6:00AM Jack Loftus | Fall asleep at the wheel of the new Mercedes E-class and the car will attempt to wake you up. Then, like a good $US50,000 vehicle, it will suggest you pause for coffee. More »
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Luxury Caravan Has Sports Car Parking Dock In Its Belly
11:00AM Jesus Diaz | Poor Madoff scandal rich victims. Pity them, because now it’s their time to scale back to a trailer park. Probably in this luxury caravan, with its own built-in parking dock for their red sports car. More »
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Mercedes to Debut Splitview Command Display this Summer
2:15AM Mark Wilson | Mercedes has announced plans to implement what they call a Splitview Command display in new S-Class models—a means for the passenger and driver to see different images on the same surface. More »
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Mercedes’ Web-Connected myComand Takes on BMW iDrive
11:45PM Jesus Diaz | Mercedes-Benz new myCOMAND system has appeared at the Los Angeles Auto Show, taking on the fourth-generation BMW iDrive. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple, especially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple TV and Front Row. One big difference is that myCOMAND is connected to the web, grabbing information wirelessly and presenting it through their own on-screen apps. Looking at the high resolution screens and the feature list, it seems very good: More »
Peripherals
Mercedes Benz Makes an iPhone Pouch…Wait What?
8:00AM Jason Chen | It’s Mercedes’ Swarovski Elements iPhone pouch from their GLK collection, which holds your iPhone the way that only a gaudy piece of leather can. Only 40 are going to be made (as of now), and will be raffled off in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin to people who are rich enough to attend. More gaudiness after the jump. [eMercedes Benz] More »
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Mercedes Truck Case Mod Hauls Ass, Runs Windows
8:20AM Gizmodo US Edition | Joining a long line of modded brethren, this Mercedes truck case mod is one we’d love to take for a spin. Details are thin, but we know it has sweet features such as working headlights, integrated exterior controls and not one but two LCD screens built right into the cab. Hit the gallery below to see pictures of the production process, and by all means take your best guess as to what kind of hot cargo she’s haulin’. [haha.nu via Gearfuse] More »
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Mercedes Search & Send Video
6:35AM Ben Longo | Here’s a video by Mercedes-Benz detailing how their new Search & Send system works with Yahoo Local (It also functions similarly with Google Maps). Although we’re not too sure what they’re smoking over there in Germany, because in one of the other videos they claim the old way of getting directions into your car was by printing them out and handing them to your Golden Retriever, who lovingly tapes them to the car’s dashboard. [Mercedes] More »
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