Visit WaltsMB.com to find your Mercedes-Benz today!
Visit WaltsMB.com to find your Mercedes-Benz today!
This year marks the 45th anniversary of AMG, Mercedes-Benz’s high-performance subsidiary. Mercedes is not the type of company to let that kind of milestone pass without recognition, so it has created the 2013 SL65 AMG 45th Anniversary to celebrate. Only 45 examples of this special-edition V-12 roadster will be available worldwide; it will be available here, but no U.S. allocation has been specified.
The SL65 45th Anniversary will be available only in a new matte paint called Designo Magno Graphite. The gray color is contrasted by the use of chrome on the grille and headlight surrounds, as well as for the hood- and fender-vent fins. The exhaust tips are finished in black chrome, while the inserts retain a polished look. A matte Exterior Carbon package also is unique to this car and includes a front spoiler lip, side mirrors, and rear spoiler rendered in carbon fiber. The engine cover is finished in a combo of matte carbon and aluminum. The car sits on AMG forged wheels (19-inchers at the front, 20s in the rear) painted flat titanium gray with a polished lip and wrapped in 255/35 and 285/30 rubber, respectively.
The interior matches the exterior with titanium pearl/ginger-beige leather. The seats feature a diamond-stitched pattern, and there are AMG V-12 graphics pressed into the seatbacks and door panels. Mirroring the exterior, the cabin trim is made of matte carbon fiber. A “45th Anniversary – 1 of 45” plate can be found on the center console.
The 45th Anniversary SL uses the same 621-hp, 6.0-liter twin-turbo V-12 found in the standard SL65 AMG. We think it’s only appropriate that AMG is using its most powerful engine to celebrate.
This isn’t the first time that Mercedes has made an anniversary-edition AMG. In 2007, the company celebrated four decades with the CL65 40th Anniversary Edition, which sold for $295,000. Mercedes tells us that pricing for this extra-special SL will be announced in September.
Source: Car and Driver
Visit WaltsMB.com to find your Mercedes-Benz today!
When rush-hour traffic is making you late for a dinner party, the last thing you need are pestering texts or calls from friends every two minutes asking where you are. There’s no app to make traffic disappear (yet), but one does exist to provide your real-time location to friends and family. It’s called Glympse, an app currently available on mobile phones that will soon be offered on the 2013 Mercedes-Benz A-Class when it arrives in September.
Glympse will allow drivers to send anyone a text or email that links to their real-time location on an interactive map. Drivers can also set a timer for the link to expire, which then cancels the location sharing. Mercedes-Benz recently released mbrace2, the automaker’s next-generation infotainment system that is Cloud-based. The new system will allow drivers to use a number of popular apps currently available on mobile phones including Yelp and Facebook.
The Glympse app has proven to be popular among mobile phone users, with at least three million downloads to date. We’re not sure how popular Glympse will be with drivers, as a recent study suggests that drivers don’t necessarily want all their mobile apps to be accessible in their cars. The study found that more consumers favor apps related to driving (weather forecasts and traffic) more than social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter.
Visit WaltsMB.com to find your Mercedes-Benz today!
Taking four first places with the A-Class, C-Class and E-Class, Mercedes-Benz has turned up a clear winner in terms of driver satisfaction, according to JD Power in Germany, a market research company that conducts surveys of customer satisfaction research on new car quality and long-term dependability. The German car maker has also been voted as the strongest brand in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC) AutoMarxX study, Europe’s largest automobile club with more than 18 million members as of May 2012. A little over 14,000 drivers in Germany responded to the online survey to assess the quality and reliability of the cars, which is the basis for the JD Power 2012 Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS). All the cars had to be driven for around two years.
“We are delighted that we have once again been able to secure the top places in the JD Power Study 2012. Our aim in the future is to continue to set the highest of standards, not only in terms of quality, service and ecology, but, of course also with our exciting designs, inspirational technology and high levels of driving pleasure. As a result we hope that the Mercedes-Benz brand will continue to be extremely well received by our customers,” said Joachim Schmidt, member of the board of Mercedes-Benz cars responsible for sales and marketing.
The company emerged as the winner in the Overall VOSS ranking with the C-Class taking the podium for the third time in succession, the E-Class winning the award for the second consecutive year and the A-Class scoring top marks for satisfaction in the compact class. Also Read: 2012 Mercedes-Benz ML 350: First Drive
Based on the responses, market researchers drew up comprehensive lists of vehicles achieving best satisfaction, comprising 79 models from 25 manufacturers in eight categories.
JD Power also conducted a similar survey in UK where respondents voted Jaguar as the most satisfying car.Source: ZigWheels
