A few weeks ago, we stumbled onto one of the cooler modifications we’ve seen in a while. The happy crew of wide-eyed dreamers over at 8bitmiata.com put a quarter slot from an old arcade machine—possibly Galaga? Space Invaders? Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker?—so that by feeding the car a quarter, the engine starts. It still requires the […]
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Mercedes-Benz Makes Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger Drink From a Tailpipe
If a company told you that a car could produce water, would you drink it? That’s the situation posed between the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell vehicle, and actors Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger in a recent video by the probably-not-sadistic automaker. Being actors, the two have personal resources for dramatizing the unusual science project. To make the […]
GL450 Goes Ice Sledding; Pandemonium Ensues
There can be great comedy in driving. Which is hard to believe, we know, because most car commercials feature either super dramatic treatments with “epic” music of drums and horns, or a sedate and upscale voiceover by Jon Hamm, John Slattery or any other wealthy male performing actor from Mad Men. Not exactly the stuff […]
These Self-Smacking Wipers Knock Ice Off Your Windshield
Great clouds almighty: is winter over yet? Snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail—come on now! It’s been a season of much precipitation and through it Raleigh has received a hard lesson: we’re not quite as equipped for winter as we thought we were. (more…)
Garrett McNamara Builds Surfboard with Mercedes-Benz
In vehicles, we’re familiar with certain values from Mercedes-Benz: comfort, performance, technology, safety and innovation, all that. While impressive, there is another element that we forget because we’re grown used to having excellent cars around us year-after-year. We’re referring to the wonder of what an automobile actually is: a gasoline-combusting machine that would have seemed […]