Dec 17 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s, engineers and researchers laid the foundation for critical safety innovations of the coming years. At the time, there was a growing understanding and refinement of the principle of vehicle safety. For example, a conscious distinction was made between passive and active safety with the appropriate sub-specialty fields of study: whereas […]
Dec 16 2014
A highlight of the Mercedes-Benz stand at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) was a concept car which took new directions in both styling and engineering: Vision CLS. Never before had two distinct genres been combined so satisfyingly and so attractively as in this vehicle, which was a coupé and a sedan rolled into one. […]
Dec 15 2014
World premiere for the compact SUV from Mercedes-Benz; Vision GLK: one car with two different faces. The Vision GLK FREESIDE and Vision GLK TOWNSIDE are two breeds of the same vehicle which are set to take the SUV world by storm. By presenting these two different vehicle profiles, Mercedes-Benz is highlighting the tremendous potential of the […]
Dec 15 2014
Mercedes-Benz 230 SLX Pagode Kombi á la Frua Carrozzeria In 1966, the Turin coachbuilder Pietro Frua, a prominent car designer in Italy in the 1960s, presented a coach built 230 SLX Shooting Brake inspired from the 2-seater Mercedes-Benz 230 SL Pagoda Roadster 1964 1:10 drawings Information about 10.12.1964 production of the basic vehicle Mercedes-Benz 230 SL: chassis number: 113.042-10-008218 […]
Dec 15 2014
The race-car that changed everything… The Penske PC-23 was designed by Nigel Bennett, who based its design on the 1993 car, the PC-22, which was a radical departure from the basic concept of the previous Penske cars. The PC-23 was one of the most dominant open wheel race cars ever developed. The only substantial difference of the new car were the […]
Dec 14 2014
Special Taxi 2025 Mercedes Nimbus – project Slavchev Tanevski from Munich University of apllied Sciences , the designer is already known to you through the magnificent Mercedes-Benz Aria. The project was completed during the internship Slavchev in Mercedes Exterior Design Studio , with the support of the exterior designer Michael Fry (Michael Frei) and the chief exterior designer Robert Forester (Robert Lesnik). Slavchev task was to […]
Dec 13 2014
The Springer Pagoda. The first ”special version ” of the Pagoda SL straightaway lost its pagoda roof and became something of a multicultural design experiment, a successful one in the view of this author. Pininfarina had taken up the gauntlet just two months after the 230 SL was unveiled in Geneva. In a letter to Karl […]
Dec 17 2014
1997 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR AMG
As the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/International Touring Car Championship had folded in late 1996, with both remaining competitors Opel and Alfa Romeo leaving due to the high costs of their 4WD designs, Mercedes-Benz had no top series to compete in. With the success of the BPR Global GT Series leading to the FIA taking over and turning it into an international series, known […]
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