The Mercedes-Maybach 600S Pullman Guard – the 6.5m long, 5 tonne, bulletproof, bombproof, 530bhp, V12, twin turbo bourgemobile your despotic regime has been waiting for.
Wall to wall leather, four reclining rear seats facing one another as you cruise past the favelas, laughing with your wives.
The six metre long Vision Mercedes Maybach 6 – an entirely conceptual version of the 2017 Mercedes E-class which makes its debut appearance at this week’s Concours d’Elegance event at Monterey California but has little chance of making it to any kind of road-legal production.
More’s the pity.
A dreamy 1960 Mercedes Benz 190SL, completely restored in 1987 and currently on offer for a mere €257,000.
Daniel Condren writes:
North Circular Road, intersection with Blackhorse Avenue yesterday.
V12 Laraki by Eric van Hove is an incredibly detailed sculpture of a Mercedes V12 engine made from 53 different materials.
Made possible by a Cda Projects Grant, the sculpture represents an imagined dynamic between German technology and North African ingenuity.
Over nine months, each individual constituent part of a dismantled Mercedes V12 engine was sent to one of thirty five master craftsmen from various regions of Morocco who recreated them in different locally sourced materials before the engine was reassembled.
What materials, you ask?
…white cedar wood, high Atlas red cedar wood, walnut wood, lemon wood, orange wood, ebony wood of Macassar, mahogany wood, thuya wood, Moroccan beech wood, pink apricot wood, mother of pearl, yellow copper, nickel plated copper, red copper, forged iron, recycled aluminum, nickel silver, silver, tin, cow bone, goat bone, malachite of Midelt, agate, green onyx, tigers eye, Taroudant stone, sand stone, red marble of Agadir, black marble of Ouarzazate, white marble of Béni Mellal, pink granite of Tafraoute, goatskin, cowskin, lambskin, resin, cow horn, rams horn, ammonite fossils of the Paleozoic from Erfoud, Ourika clay, geometric terra cotta with vitreous enamel (zellige), green enamel of Tamgrout, paint, cotton, argan oil, cork, henna, and rumex.
TLDR: It’s like that episode of Futurama where Bender remakes himself in wood.
Niamh writes:
So my sister parked her car in UL in Limerick yesterday. And this happened!
Separated at Merc.
The Carma Project, sponsored by ad agency Leo Burnett Lisbon:
“built a bicycle out of the scrap of a retired Mercedes hoping that the heavy karma of the car could be rebalanced by riding the same number of kilometres in a greener way: just by cycling.”
Damn agency-sponsored enviro-hipsters.
A pimped out pick-up In Dublin (location unknown), today.
Not a patch on the Nissan Connemicra.
Fintan Gillespie writes:
Denis Mahony Motors [North Road, Dublin 11] offered anyone who liked their Facebook page over the last few days entry into a draw to win a new Mercedes.The Contest was to end on Sunday. They have just revealed that this offer was an April Fool’s.
The fan count dropped from 10,000 to about 5,000 in just over 20 minutes:
Oh.
