Mercedes SLS AMG and golf, this is the usual combination we expected to see! This time, Mercedes SLS AMG and golf are doing something totally different. David Coulthard was driving the Mercedes SLS AMG and Jake Shepherd was hitting the golf ball. The combination still does not sound that awkward!
Actually, this happened! While David Coulthard driving the Mercedes SLS AMG at 180 kph (120 mph), Jake Shepherd hit the golf ball at the speed of 285 kph (178 mph). And, David caught the ball by the cockpit of Mercedes SLS AMG. May be ball caught the SLS AMG as well. I am a bit confused therefore, I include the press release.
David, who was driving the awesome 571hp Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster at 120mph, caught a golf ball in the cockpit of the moving car which was 275 metres from the tee, and hit by Jake at an astonishing 178mph. This amazing achievement secured the world record for the furthest golf shot caught in a moving car in only the second attempt of the day.
Mercedes-Benz cars are covered by gold and published their photos in Mercedes-Benz official media site. So, there is a problem! Usually Mercedes-Benz media website never uploads photos like this but, this time it is an exception!
Mercedes-Benz and AMG cars will be providing golden fleet service for the Cannes Film Festival, 65th Palme d’Or. This means all of the Mercedes-Benz and AMG fleets car will be covered with gold colour! Just imagine the impact of the shining Mercedes-Benz and AMG cars in Cannes Film Festival. I guess, they may hinder the movie stars in some ways!
Also, there is going to be a Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG 45th Anniversary Edition at the Cinema Against AIDS Gala on 24th May. Moreover, Mercedes-Benz and AMG offer test drive for the guests and the visitors. If they will be testing the gold covered Mercedes-Benz and AMG cars, it will create very interesting scenery at Cannes!
I know one thing for sure; gold covered Mercedes-Benz and AMG cars will catch more attention than anything else in Cannes Film Festival.
Facebook is the new environment to experience your favourite car brand. From Hyundai to Ferrari, nearly all car companies are available on Facebook. Even if you cannot afford to buy one, there is not restriction to like! Many people benefit from this de-restricted world of Facebook and became a fan of their favourite car brand. And the number of fans on Facebook are the solid proofs; Ferrari has 8 million, Mercedes-Benz AMG has 2 million, Audi US has 5 million. These numbers are more than many countries’ whole population.
As the numbers are so huge, the car companies decided to celebrate this in a usual way! Burning rubber! Ferrari, AMG and Audi celebrated their Facebook success by burning tyres and making smoke. Honestly, all these footages are record very professionally and nice to watch but celebrating an achievement in a new technology by burning rubber does not sound that innovative :)
Mercedes G63 AMG photos are finally available or in other term, it is leaked to internet. G63 AMG version is relatively slower than the G65 AMG! G63 AMG will be revealed at Beijing Motor Show and will be available on June with price tag of around €140,000!
G63 AMG is powered by a 5.5-lt Twin turbo V8 petrol engine, 544 PS of power and 760 nm of torque. And creates 322g/km of CO2, and drinks around 13.8 lt/km (20.5 MPG).
And it is back. Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG! Honestly, I am not fan of this meaninglessly powerful engine. Because, it is so powerful and makes so hard to control the car. The previous engine was 612 PS with 1000 nm of torque, this one has more power! 630 PS with two turbos and the same torque level. This torque level is very very high and that’s main problem why all 65 family flashes the traction control all the time. Rear wheels cannot cope with this enormous power. Despite this monster engine, the new SL65 AMG achieves to reach 100 kph (62 mph) in 4,0 seconds. In my opinion this engine has to be used only with four-wheel drive, otherwise it is wasting power!
Hopefully, Mercedes got rid of the five-speed auto gearbox and paired this monster with 7G-Tronic automatic gearbox, however it is not double clutch. The main problem is the enormous amount of torque makes gearbox heavy and expensive, therefore Mercedes stick with the traditional automatic gearbox.
Mercedes also produced the boot lid from carbon fibre to save weight, five kg. In overall, this models is not 1950 kg and 170 kg lighter than previous model. But the top speed is still limited to 250 kph.
I still find no point to buy this car, it is better to stick with SL 63 AMG!
If you are wondering how the latest footage of Ferrari F12berlinetta was taken, here is the answer from Ferrari. Hopefully, automotive companies realised importance of backstage footages! This has been done by fashion brands for ages and catches lots of interest.
During the shootings of the F12berlinetta, they have used my favourite SUV Mercedes-Benz ML63AMG as pursuit camera car and also a helicopter and also high-speed cameras and also 35mm movie cameras. This short footage we watched on YouTube was not prepared by a team of amateurs!
For very long time, AMG was two things for a Mercedes-Benz vehicle; AMG Body Kit and AMG Models. First thing is just a cosmetic amend of the exterior design with louder exhaust and the second thing is the extreme expensive cars. As you can see that there is a gap here, many people want to experience the AMG without paying lots of money or just contented with cosmetic make-up.
Hopefully, Mercedes-Benz realised this gap after some time and decided to release a new package for C Coupe. It is called AMG Plus Sport Package. This package is engineered by AMG, from steering wheel to gearbox everything is at the AMG level. This new package offers double declutch function for the gearbox, it is totally reprogrammed.
And all these can be your with C250 / 250 CDi models, you don’t have to pay a lot of money! I am sure that, this package will be available with other models as well.
Today Mercedes released the photos and information about the new SL 63 AMG! I hope there won’t be SL 65 AMG, because with these performance figure, it will be really meaningless to offer it. Anyway, this new SL 63 AMG offers more power than ever, there is no point to have more!
So, I need to mention about the engine. Unfortunately, the engine is the same as the outgoing model 5,5-lt twin turbo V8, which produces 537PS or 564PS and 800nm or 900nm of torque. Why I did use the “or”. Because, Mercedes offers additional AMG Performance Package that will give you extra horse power, torque, handling, accuracy and 300 kph (186 mph) top speed. I can assume that with the Performance Package, you would have relatively slow, relative less handling and relatively under powered car.
Anyway, let’s go back to figures. Finally, Mercedes managed to reduce the weight by using aluminium and carbon fibre overall the car. I don’t mean the carbon fibre used in interior design. They used them in proper way. By doing this, this new SL 63 AMG is 1845 kg, less than 2-tonnes is a very good job for a car that offers ventilated seats and radar guided cruise control.
Unfortunately, the AMG engine is not capable of revving very high rpm. I really don’t know why but it is limited with 5500 rpm. Again unfortunately, new BMW 3,0-lt triple turbo powered diesel does the same rpm level. And Ferrari 458 can go up to 9000 rpm! Sometimes Mercedes thinks too much about comfort. Just rev the engine as much as possible :)
When it comes to acceleration, the relative slow model needs 4,3 seconds for 100 kph (62mph) and faster model needs 4,2 seconds! But, the main point is the acceleration while on move, because this new engine has lots of torques. And lots of torques mean one thing, you can accelerate like nothing on this earth! And all these power is sent by 7-speed double clutch gearbox.
I am pretty sure that Mercedes again achieved to make a very powerful sport car that can be driven at lower speed and inside the city. The main problem of very fast cars, they are terrible as low speeds. The gearbox is annoying, there is rear view, suspension is pain and it goes like that. However, Mercedes is perfect combining the both and making a car driveable while, you are going slow.
Today’s interview is with Rob Halloway, PR Manager of Mercedes-Benz UK. He is the person responsible for the passenger and commercial vehicles, and one of the most active Twitter users from the automotive industry. We know each other through the Twitter and the MIPAA.
From the beginning, Mercedes-Benz did a great hospitality for me. They picked me up from the train station with a Mercedes C350 Coupe. It was a fully loaded vehicle with everything, radar guided cruise control, blind spot system, traffic sign recognition, and ventilated seats! Five-star transportation.
Mercedes-Benz HQ is always amazing place for someone, who likes cars. They have many different types of vehicles in one place, from trucks to AMG high performance vehicles. Actually, my best piece was Lego Unimog that has more than one thousand parts and takes around at least six hours to build it!
With Rob, we talked about the new Mercedes vehicles. In 2011 and 2012 Mercedes revealed many new vehicles; SLK, CLS, SL, M-Class, B-Class and Actros truck. He summarised each vehicles’ unique feature and explained the new crash prevention system in B-Class.
In addition, we talked about the social media, its role in automotive industry and whom should manage it!
And, his journey with the Actros truck for a camping trip! And you will see what he drive at work ;)
Again, thank you very much to all Mercedes-Benz team for their great hospitality :)
I just found a video on YouTube. 2010 Korean GP and Mercedes SLS AMG Safety Car couldn’t take the corner. You can see the very hard braking and smoke coming out from the tyres and the air brake was on full, but it was still too fast for the corner.
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