For decades we have watched our children grow up with video games, and wondered what the draw was. Video games have progressed from machines in pizza parlors fed with quarters to $500 boxes that sit in living rooms and offer Internet, shopping and DVD players, besides the actual games. When Mercedes-Benz announced this week that […]
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Significant Changes Coming to the G-Class in 2017
The Prius-crushing, conservation-flattening, wind-resisting, vaguely-militaristic G-Class will receive a slate of upgrades for 2017. As the image below can attest, the G-Class is remarkably immune to attempts to change. Instead, Mercedes-Benz will opt to make the G-Class slightly wider (four inches) with broader seats and a roomier cabin. The biggest change will be increased use […]
The Brilliant New Hybrid System That Efficiently Analyzes Topography
This might be one of the most intelligent hybrid systems we’ve heard of. Mercedes-Benz’s Intelligent Hybrid analyzes the road ahead so the vehicle can make decisions about how to most efficiently use battery power. It works like this: Inside the COMAND® navigation system, information about topography—hills, valleys, elevation and descent—are all stored. As the vehicle […]
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 […]