Mercedes-Benz is moving its Southern Californian advanced design studio from Irvine to a newly-acquired, spacious facility near Carlsbad, in order to strengthen its creative base in the U.S. At the new Carlsbad facility, the styling masterminds pondering the car of the future have almost three times more space in which to realize their creative ideas. [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2008
Mercedes-Benz engineers have developed a special monitoring sensor that measures the oil quality inside the engine. They were able to extend the oil change intervals by around 25% by monitoring the oil quality and alerting the driver to change the oil at the right moment. The system will let the driver monitor the oil quality [...]
Continue reading...16. November 2007
The Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow is among the highlights of the Los Angeles. Design Challenge, in which eight car design studios in southern California were given the assignment to create the “Robocar 2057″ as a combination of vehicle technology and artificial intelligence. Accordingly the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Center of North America in Irvine, California, which is headed [...]
Continue reading...20. September 2007
Being only 80 miles away from Frankfurt, I had no excuse not to visit this years IAA in Frankfurt. I got the opportunity to see the newest, coolest, and future cars up close, and sometimes even managed to sit in one. I must admit that I didn’t see half of the cars there. You just [...]
Continue reading...20. September 2007
They folks at UnitedPicturesTV are highlighting some of the most important and interesting Mercedes Benz concept. The DiesOtto, along with the Smart micro hybrid as well as the zero emissions electric smart, are discussed in this segment. There will be some great technologies hitting the market in the next couple of years, and like always, [...]
Continue reading...11. September 2007
We’ve reported about the F700 Concept sometime ago, but today is the first time we actually get to see the vehicle. The car will be runing on a DIESOTTO 1.8 liter engine, which Mercedes promises will be as, if not more, fuel efficient than a diesel. The F 700 is the world’s first car that [...]
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30. May 2008
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