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Driving in UK in 1930s

I have just found this video from Ford Europe’s Twitter message. Video is explaining what you should do in your driving examination. The interesting things are, you have to use your arm as a signal, as a stop light and as a take over me. At those years, I guess engineers forgot to place light back end of the cars! Hopefully they did not forgot to place headlights ;)
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Back Ends

In magazines, catalogs; actually in every printed material we always see the front ends of the cars. Of course, they will show the front, because the car is moving forward not backward. So the back is not that important! However, some cars does not have that good looking design at their back ends. May be design teams did not pay the same attention to back end ;) However some cars have a very good looking at their back end like their front end ;)
Porsche 911 – Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Edition
Range Rover – Ferrari 458
Maserati GranTurismo – Aston Martin DBS
Pictures are from;
Porsche, Mercedes, Land Rover, Ferrari, Maserati and Aston Martin Websites
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Mercedes SLS AMG and Pamela Anderson’s Boobs!

I am pretty sure that, anyone who is reading this blog knows who Pamela Anderson is! She became famous with Bay Watch and her silicone boobs :) Actually she became an icon for charming woman and for silicones also. Nobody could deny her contribution to silicone implants business! Therefore she should be awarded for this :)
Again Mercedes SLS AMG; a few days ago I have checked our retro iconic car’s configurator website. And I noticed something. SLS AMG does not have the AMG suspensions as standard, like E Coupe does not have the AMG suspensions as standard. For E Coupe, that’s normal because it is an AMG or nobody have written AMG next to its name. So, people can pay extra for AMG suspensions in an E Coupe. However, SLS AMG has the brilliant marketing tactic and offering AMG suspensions in an AMG car which cost ridiculous expensive as an €1428 option! Yes, in Germany you have to pay €1428 for AMG suspensions in SLS AMG. I mentioned Germany specifically, because this option will cost more in other countries.
Let’s combine the Pamela Anderson and SLS AMG. Unfortunately, SLS AMG is not charming like her or iconic like her. But let’s think in this way, Pamela Anderson without her silicones will be senseless! And everyone knows this; in TV series, TV shows or movies her silicones are the eye catching point. Also she is making wealth by show business! For instance, if Pamela Anderson receives an offer to act in TV Series, will she add extra “silicone boobs” fee? Of course not, she knows that people love her silicones and that’s one of the main consistent of her brand image. So she won’t ask something ridiculous like this. Let’s summarize it very clearly; Mercedes SLS AMG’s optional AMG suspensions have the same senselessness of Pamela Anderson to ask for extra fee for her silicones!
People will not care if Pamela Anderson asks for more fee but asking for more for suspensions will not be accepted like that ;)
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What to wear with Viktor&Rolf?

Recently, I have posted an interesting dress from Viktor&Rolf. I am not a fashion expert but for spring summer collection it will be a very warm dress! Probably someone who buys this dress will have a sauna effect without going to sauna!
I have suggestion to for people who will buy this dress! If you are planning to wear this dress, you have to drive something fits with this dress. I am not talking about shoes or bag, I am talking about cars! You cannot wear this dress and drive a Mini or Audi A4. They will not fit with the dress and also you will not able to fit into car with this dress. So my suggestion is Mercedes G55 AMG!
As you can see this car have the aggressive look of Viktor&Rolf’s dress and their colors are matching. Most probably you will fit into car without any problem :)
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The Real SLS AMG Interior !

Date: 13/02/2007, Time: 03.56AM, Location: Mercedes Headquarter, Stuttgart, Germany
This dialogue is between two Mercedes staff who are working on SLS AMG project. Don’t be fooled, this is imaginary :)
-Guten Tag!
-Guten Tag! (I don’t know why they wanted to say this!)
-Was macht du?
-Ich denke an SLS AMG Interieur.
-Was ist das Problem?
-Machen billig! Gut aussehen!
-Ich habe eine Idee
-Wirklich!
-Ja, Ja!
-Nehmen Comand-System von C-Klasse :)
-That’s a great idea! (He is excited and started speaking in English)
And here is the translation;
-Hey what are you doing at this time here?
-I got bored and came to work. (Actually there is a reasonable reason why they are at work on this time:) )
-I have a problem with SLS AMG.
-The new fake Gullwing?
-Yes, design team was lazy and they just revised the 300SL.
-I thought they stopped this. They used photocopy machine to design the first C Class by decreasing the size of S Class.
-Yes, they stopped the photocopy machine. It broke down after using a decade.
-What is the problem with SLS AMG?
-The interior. It should be exquisite and cheap to make.
-Really?
-Yes!
-Why don’t take the interior from C-Class.
-It won’t be nice!
-Who cares :)
-OK, let’s do it.
Sorry for this imaginary conversation. But I don’t have any other chance to explain the horrible interior of SLS AMG. You are paying a huge amount of money and you will have plastic radio! People who are paying nearly €200 000 do not wish to see something plastic. If they wish, they would buy the C Class.
The original Gullwing was decades beyond it time! Therefore people still love that car. If you wish to introduce an iconic car like that, you should design something which is beyond our time!
Pictures are from;
Mercedes and Wikipedia Websites
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Supercar is a diamond

Diamonds are the dreams of many women. They look at them everytime walk near by a jewerelly shop, they try to look their friend’s new ring, look at magazines. Basically, they want one regardless of size but one! I don’t generalize :) They dream the day, they will own one!
Let’s change the object quickly. Supercars; men are looking and taking pictures of supercars. Reading magazines, watching Top Gear and dreaming to drive one. Feeling power, feeling privilidge, emotions.
When a man and woman have enough money to buy diamond or supercar, what they do? They do the same :) Kept it in somewhere nobody can touch it and I cannot even see it! A rich woman bought an expensive diamond. She will wear it couple of times and start to feel uncomfortable. It is very expensive, I waited for many years, someone might steal it, I might lost it and it goes on like this. What happen? Diamond will stay in safe box until the owner forgets it.
When a rich man bought a supercar, he will drive fast, find out its power and etc. After couple of weeks, he will start to think too much! Someone can hit my car, someone might destroy the paint and car will end up in a garage forever.
In the end; dreaming of owning a diamond or a supercar is so strong that, it will prevent you to feel the pleasure of using it :)
Pictures are from;
Bentley and DeBeers Websites
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Colorful Mercedes SLS AMG

Anyone who is interested on car know that German car manufacturers are not very generous on color options! I don’t know why but they stuck on grey, grey, grey, white, red and black also. This color range shows their senseless character in automotive. I know that grey and German cars have emotional bound but customers may not wish to create some stupid relationships with colors.
I can understand this small range of colors in cheaper models but a car which cost €180 000 in Germany and named as Mercedes SLS AMG has only 9 colors option and there are five tones of grey! Can you imagine five tones of grey out of nine colors. This is like going to Gordon Ramsay in Mayfair, London and you will have only five different types of water, out of nine drinks including wines! I can see the improvement by offering “red” but this is not enough.
If you are charging enormous amount of money, you should provide not only huge amount of torque but also huge amount of color range :)
If you wish to have some more color range and less grey, you can order a Range Rover Autobiography!
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FlashForward, too fast to forward :)

Recently a new science fiction TV Series has started. The whole world saw their future for 2:17 minutes. It is called FlashForward. The interesting thing I noticed was something totally different. In second episode Mark flies to Germany to see the person who asked to talk with him. There is no problem also! And he flied to Germany, no problem. But he flied with his car :) He put the Mercedes S Class to luggage and brought the car with him. How I came with this story?
The car you are looking at is a US Spec Mercedes S Class! You can understand this by identifying the orange light in front the front tyre. The cars in US must have that orange light in front their front tyres. This option is not available in Europe, actually there might be some exceptions but it is very very rare in Germany. Someone should export the car from US to Germany where the car is actually manufactured.
Here it is the production mistake :) They suppose to erase that orange light on computer.
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Mercedes AMG Shoes :((((

Santoni for AMG. This is a part of promotion of Mercedes SLS AMG. Not my favourite :( It did not manage to create the same pure sense of design, excellence of performance, distinctive soul of Mercedes Racing Heritage. It is just a engineering perfection with retro design and the same interior with Mercedes E Coupe. Same Interior! Buttons are the Same!
As I understood from the PR campaign, there are some bits of Porsche Design! SLS AMG is an iconic car, life style etc etc etc. Actually I don’t agree, it does not have a unique design! Similar to Porsche Design, they are now offering shoes from Italian shoe maker Santoni. Except one or two models which are very similar to Camper shoes, the rest of the collection is quite nice. There are some similarities with Hogan shoes but they are nice until the moment you see the AMG word.
I really like Mercedes but I do not find AMG cool! You cannot make a brand cool or exquisite or desirable in couple of months. You must invest invest invest! Actually AMG’s current position is doing really well. It is still a modification company. You did not reveal a design philosophy, I know with current managers AMG is in the excellence of its era. But you should wait more! Anything with Mercedes or AMG logo is not cool for life style, there is a long way to become Porsche Design!
Pictures are from;
Santoni for AMG Website
Autoblog.com
Hogan Website
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Aston Martin, Bentley 2 + ?

A few days I was surfing on Bentley’s and Aston Martin’s web sites. And I found something catastrophic :) I am pretty sure that, many people are surfing from this problem. People who won the lottery don’t know what to do with that! Many peoples’ dream is collapsed!
Aston Martin DBS Coupe and Bentley Continental Supersport. When you wish to buy these cars in coupe shape, you cannot have 2+2 seating! Yes, if you buy DBS Coupe or Supersport Coupe, you won’t be able to use the back seats. I know who cares! Actually I don’t care that much! But, back seats are not only for accommodating place for people seat, it is also offering extra boots space :) You can throw many things to back, when you have seat in the back :) The interesting fact; DBS Cabrio and Supersport Cabrio has back seat! How did you manage to add two extra seats when you are considering space for roof?
I am serious, coupe suppose have more space for extra seat and cabrio should suffer from finding place to add seats. In these conditions, it is totally the opposite. I really wish to receive response from Aston Martin and Bentley. What they were thinking while desiging these cars :)

Pictures are from;
Bentley and Aston Martin Websites