Part of the new Intelligent Drive System that is making its way in to all of our cars. As always, Mercedes leads the way with safety innovation.
Look for this technology to be a Federal Mandate for all cars in the future. And other manufacturers can license it now from Mercedes for only 1.00 per safety patent.
Safety for all, even errant bicyclists.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Monday, November 29, 2010
If you're going to fall, pick the right car...
Parking attendant survives three-story fall in SUV
BY Simone Weichselbaum, Henrick Karoliszyn and Bill Hutchinson
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 1:23 AM
Savulich/NewsA lucky parking attendant survived a harrowing three-story plunge out an East Village car garage window Monday, but his customer's new luxury ride was totaled. Related NewsA lucky parking attendant survived a harrowing three-story plunge out an East Village car garage window Monday, but his customer's new luxury ride was totaled.
The valet, whose name was not immediately released, walked away from the bizarre 3:30 p.m. accident at the Hertz garage on E. 13th St. at Fifth Ave., witnesses said.
He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan as a precaution, but officials said it appeared he suffered only bumps and scratches.
"I just hope the guy is okay. That is all I care about," said Eli Yedid, 36, who leases the now-wrecked 2009 Mercedes-Benz GL450 SUV. "One phone call, I can get a new car."
Yedid said the attendant accidently put the car in reverse, crashed through a 15-foot-by-12-foot plate-glass window at the rear of the six-story garage and went for an unexpected 25-foot drop.
The silver, $70,000 SUV, which Yedid began leasing last month, landed atop a second-story courtyard of an adjacent New York University administration building, which had to be evacuated.
"It was like a rumbling," said NYU staffer Dan Malone, who was working in his fifth-floor office next door to the garage when the accident occurred. "I didn't just hear it, I felt it."
Another NYU worker, Ron Farrell, said he, too, was drawn to his window by a "big crash" and saw the driver walking away.
"He got out of the car and walked like 20 feet," said Farrel.
Jim Kerr of the NYU Department of Emergency Management said the SUV landed in a vacant and seldom-used courtyard. He said a crane was being brought in to remove the vehicle.
Yedid, who lives in Greenwich Village and owns the Cutie Pie Baby clothing company, said his wife, Adele, was downstairs with their three children waiting for the attendant to fetch the SUV when the accident happened.
"She is pretty shaken up," Yedid said.
This is some amazing crash testing, the type one might not anticipate, maybe, but that which leaves us grateful the engineers design the cars to be so strong in the first place, to handle whatever life throws at us in the second place.
BY Simone Weichselbaum, Henrick Karoliszyn and Bill Hutchinson
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Tuesday, April 21st 2009, 1:23 AM
Savulich/NewsA lucky parking attendant survived a harrowing three-story plunge out an East Village car garage window Monday, but his customer's new luxury ride was totaled. Related NewsA lucky parking attendant survived a harrowing three-story plunge out an East Village car garage window Monday, but his customer's new luxury ride was totaled.
The valet, whose name was not immediately released, walked away from the bizarre 3:30 p.m. accident at the Hertz garage on E. 13th St. at Fifth Ave., witnesses said.
He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan as a precaution, but officials said it appeared he suffered only bumps and scratches.
"I just hope the guy is okay. That is all I care about," said Eli Yedid, 36, who leases the now-wrecked 2009 Mercedes-Benz GL450 SUV. "One phone call, I can get a new car."
Yedid said the attendant accidently put the car in reverse, crashed through a 15-foot-by-12-foot plate-glass window at the rear of the six-story garage and went for an unexpected 25-foot drop.
The silver, $70,000 SUV, which Yedid began leasing last month, landed atop a second-story courtyard of an adjacent New York University administration building, which had to be evacuated.
"It was like a rumbling," said NYU staffer Dan Malone, who was working in his fifth-floor office next door to the garage when the accident occurred. "I didn't just hear it, I felt it."
Another NYU worker, Ron Farrell, said he, too, was drawn to his window by a "big crash" and saw the driver walking away.
"He got out of the car and walked like 20 feet," said Farrel.
Jim Kerr of the NYU Department of Emergency Management said the SUV landed in a vacant and seldom-used courtyard. He said a crane was being brought in to remove the vehicle.
Yedid, who lives in Greenwich Village and owns the Cutie Pie Baby clothing company, said his wife, Adele, was downstairs with their three children waiting for the attendant to fetch the SUV when the accident happened.
"She is pretty shaken up," Yedid said.
This is some amazing crash testing, the type one might not anticipate, maybe, but that which leaves us grateful the engineers design the cars to be so strong in the first place, to handle whatever life throws at us in the second place.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Small Diesels. Finally! Thank you Mercedes-Benz! GLK and C-Class
After fielding queries from folks who'd rented them in Europe, "How come we don't get the small Diesels here in the US?", I finally have an answer. They're coming! In 2012 and 2013 to be exact. This is a very good thing. Mercedes-Benz invented the Diesel engine over 80 years ago, and it is still the best way to make a fuel-efficient, torquey and exceedingly robust engine for motorcars and trucks. One of the reasons diesels have been hard to get here in the US is that they are so popular in Europe, the engines are all sold out.
Well, we finally have our own allotment coming, and I say "Hooray!"
From wardsauto,
"Mercedes-Benz USA confirms the diesel version of the GLK compact cross/utility vehicle for the U.S. market in 2012. The company also noted that the next-gen C-Class will feature diesel availability right from the start when it arrives in 2013.
In a conversation with wardsauto, Ernst Lieb, Benz’s U.S. chief said that the diesel variant will be followed by a diesel version of the next-generation C-Class sedan just one year later. The company plans to power both the vehicles by a 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine bearing the automaker’s Bluetec title for clean diesel powertrains.
Apart from the GLK compact cross/utility vehicle, the company’s line up with diesel engine for the coming years include diesel options include the ML and GL-Class SUVs, the R-Class crossover and the 2011 model year E-Class sedan.
According to wardsauto, through October, Mercedes U.S.-market sales were tracking 13.7% ahead of the same point in 2009."
via wardsauto
Well, we finally have our own allotment coming, and I say "Hooray!"
From wardsauto,
"Mercedes-Benz USA confirms the diesel version of the GLK compact cross/utility vehicle for the U.S. market in 2012. The company also noted that the next-gen C-Class will feature diesel availability right from the start when it arrives in 2013.
In a conversation with wardsauto, Ernst Lieb, Benz’s U.S. chief said that the diesel variant will be followed by a diesel version of the next-generation C-Class sedan just one year later. The company plans to power both the vehicles by a 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine bearing the automaker’s Bluetec title for clean diesel powertrains.
Apart from the GLK compact cross/utility vehicle, the company’s line up with diesel engine for the coming years include diesel options include the ML and GL-Class SUVs, the R-Class crossover and the 2011 model year E-Class sedan.
According to wardsauto, through October, Mercedes U.S.-market sales were tracking 13.7% ahead of the same point in 2009."
via wardsauto
Friday, November 19, 2010
The Biome; an organic car that grows itself. Only from the visionaries at Mercedes
Dream new Mercedes-Benz Biome - the car at one with nature
Visionary brilliance or flight of fantasy? Reap what you sow, say Mercedes-Benz engineers about their new Biome concept car, making its debut at the LA Auto Show.
The Mercedes-Benz Biome is made from an ultralight material called 'BioFibre'
by David Williams 11:39AM GMT 19 Nov 2010
We’ve seen some weird and wonderful concept cars at Telegraph Motoring, but this one takes the cannabis flapjack.
Owing more, some might say, to the realms of psychedelia than the accepted norms of car design, the Mercedes-Benz Biome is billed as an "ultralight vehicle at one with nature".
The brains behind the car - entered in the Los Angeles Design Challenge, where aspiring designers partner with carmakers to envision the future of mobility - say it will be created and function in "complete symbiosis with nature". And they’re not just talking about squirting some converted chip fat into the fuel tank.
The Biome, they say, will be grown in a "completely organic environment" from seeds sown in a nursery; a Mercedes-Benz nursery. Out on the road the car will emit not a cocktail of noxious gases, but pure oxygen. And at the end of its life-span it won’t be dragged off to the local dump to be dismantled in a pool of oil - it will be composted. Or used as building material.
“We wanted to illustrate the vision of the perfect vehicle of the future,” said Hubert Lee, head of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad. “The Biome is a natural technology hybrid and forms part of our earth’s ecosystem. It grows and thrives like the leaves on a tree.”
It will, he says, be made from "BioFibre" and weigh just 875lbs (397kg). BioFibre, you see, will be grown from proprietary DNA in the MB nursery, where it will collect energy from the sun and store it in a liquid chemical bond called BioNectar4534.
The trip deepens: the interior of the Biome will grow from DNA contained in the Mercedes star on the front of the vehicle, while the exterior grows from the star on the rear. To accommodate specific customer requirements, the MB star will be genetically engineered, allowing the vehicle to grow accordingly.
Trees will help in the process too. They will be equipped with "special receptors" that collect solar energy, turning it into BioNectar, say the team from MB.
To me, the most amazing thing about this car is that at some point in the future, some of the concepts contained in it will be on every Mercedes going down the road. And the future is not far off.
Visionary brilliance or flight of fantasy? Reap what you sow, say Mercedes-Benz engineers about their new Biome concept car, making its debut at the LA Auto Show.
The Mercedes-Benz Biome is made from an ultralight material called 'BioFibre'
by David Williams 11:39AM GMT 19 Nov 2010
We’ve seen some weird and wonderful concept cars at Telegraph Motoring, but this one takes the cannabis flapjack.
Owing more, some might say, to the realms of psychedelia than the accepted norms of car design, the Mercedes-Benz Biome is billed as an "ultralight vehicle at one with nature".
The brains behind the car - entered in the Los Angeles Design Challenge, where aspiring designers partner with carmakers to envision the future of mobility - say it will be created and function in "complete symbiosis with nature". And they’re not just talking about squirting some converted chip fat into the fuel tank.
The Biome, they say, will be grown in a "completely organic environment" from seeds sown in a nursery; a Mercedes-Benz nursery. Out on the road the car will emit not a cocktail of noxious gases, but pure oxygen. And at the end of its life-span it won’t be dragged off to the local dump to be dismantled in a pool of oil - it will be composted. Or used as building material.
“We wanted to illustrate the vision of the perfect vehicle of the future,” said Hubert Lee, head of the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Carlsbad. “The Biome is a natural technology hybrid and forms part of our earth’s ecosystem. It grows and thrives like the leaves on a tree.”
It will, he says, be made from "BioFibre" and weigh just 875lbs (397kg). BioFibre, you see, will be grown from proprietary DNA in the MB nursery, where it will collect energy from the sun and store it in a liquid chemical bond called BioNectar4534.
The trip deepens: the interior of the Biome will grow from DNA contained in the Mercedes star on the front of the vehicle, while the exterior grows from the star on the rear. To accommodate specific customer requirements, the MB star will be genetically engineered, allowing the vehicle to grow accordingly.
Trees will help in the process too. They will be equipped with "special receptors" that collect solar energy, turning it into BioNectar, say the team from MB.
To me, the most amazing thing about this car is that at some point in the future, some of the concepts contained in it will be on every Mercedes going down the road. And the future is not far off.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
RSVP
Please attend the First Annual Art Show and Holiday Party and support a local artist/Mercedes salesperson and get your Holiday on in style!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Drifting a CLK63 Black Series on Ice! You Have Got To Try This!
This is the new racing game in which you get to drift a CLK63 Black Series on a frozen lake! It's so fun! http://www.mercedes-amg.com/webspecial/games/drift_revolution/
Sunday, June 27, 2010
When selling BMWs, it's always good to use a Mercedes
A Mercedes gift to the first person who answers this question;
Why are camera cars blacked out?
Bonus question;
Why are many camera cars MLs? (This isn't the only one, there are several in LA, too.)
Monday, June 21, 2010
JD Powers Initial Quality Survey results
I have always been proud to be associated with this brand, and now even more so. These surveys reflect Mercedes' unwavering efforts toward ever-increasing standards of excellence. Considering that Porsche sells a fraction the number of cars that Mercedes does, it could be construed that our ranking, if weighted for sales volume, is even higher.
June 17, 2010
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share some great news with you: J.D. Power has just released its 2010 Initial
Quality Survey (IQS) in which Mercedes-Benz improved three ranking positions from 6th to 3rd,
reflecting our best ranking in twenty years. That’s a 14% improvement to 87 pph (problems per
one hundred) compared to 2009.
Among the brands; Only Porsche and Acura are ahead of us - for the first time ever - we beat
Lexus. BMW dropped from 15th to 16th and Audi was 20th and ended up at 12th.
Our volume models led the way: C-Class improved by 27 problems and is the highest ranked
vehicle in the Entry Premium Car segment. M-Class improved by 20 problems and our new EClass
Sedan and E- Coupe, right out of the gate ranked second in their respective segments and
had only 80 pph.
In addition, the Europe / Africa region received 2 plant awards: East London, South Africa
received the Platinum Award and Sindelfingen, Germany was awarded the Bronze Plant Quality
Award.
While this strong IQS performance can be attributed to DAG’s unwavering commitment to
designing and producing high quality vehicles, we all know how a customer’s experience with the
company, the dealership and the brand can shape their perception of the quality of the product.
It is clear that the pride and the passion that are so much a part of CustomerOne and all our
collective initiatives are playing an important role in what is happening here. On behalf of
Executive Management we would like to thank you for your contribution to this accomplishment.
That does not mean, however, that we have accomplished our goal. The score variance between
the very top brands in this survey and in several of the others is very small, and I firmly believe
that we have what it takes to get back to the very top. That’s why CustomerOne is critical to our
success in terms of harnessing, and leveraging, the power of each customer interaction and
every customer-facing initiative. We all want to see the day when all the surveys reflect the fact
that there is no experience better, more aspired to, and more envied than that of owning a
Mercedes-Benz.
June 17, 2010
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to share some great news with you: J.D. Power has just released its 2010 Initial
Quality Survey (IQS) in which Mercedes-Benz improved three ranking positions from 6th to 3rd,
reflecting our best ranking in twenty years. That’s a 14% improvement to 87 pph (problems per
one hundred) compared to 2009.
Among the brands; Only Porsche and Acura are ahead of us - for the first time ever - we beat
Lexus. BMW dropped from 15th to 16th and Audi was 20th and ended up at 12th.
Our volume models led the way: C-Class improved by 27 problems and is the highest ranked
vehicle in the Entry Premium Car segment. M-Class improved by 20 problems and our new EClass
Sedan and E- Coupe, right out of the gate ranked second in their respective segments and
had only 80 pph.
In addition, the Europe / Africa region received 2 plant awards: East London, South Africa
received the Platinum Award and Sindelfingen, Germany was awarded the Bronze Plant Quality
Award.
While this strong IQS performance can be attributed to DAG’s unwavering commitment to
designing and producing high quality vehicles, we all know how a customer’s experience with the
company, the dealership and the brand can shape their perception of the quality of the product.
It is clear that the pride and the passion that are so much a part of CustomerOne and all our
collective initiatives are playing an important role in what is happening here. On behalf of
Executive Management we would like to thank you for your contribution to this accomplishment.
That does not mean, however, that we have accomplished our goal. The score variance between
the very top brands in this survey and in several of the others is very small, and I firmly believe
that we have what it takes to get back to the very top. That’s why CustomerOne is critical to our
success in terms of harnessing, and leveraging, the power of each customer interaction and
every customer-facing initiative. We all want to see the day when all the surveys reflect the fact
that there is no experience better, more aspired to, and more envied than that of owning a
Mercedes-Benz.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Another happy Mercedes owner
This is Mr. Reid Dennis, who ordered his new S550 way back in October of 2009! He took delivery today at his home in Woodside, and I think his new car is just gorgeous, don't you? Palladium Silver with the Savannah Beige interior. Aaaah!
Reid has the most amazing collection of model trains and antique prints of San Francisco. Don't we have the best customers?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Mercedes Drivers Safer Than Drivers of other Cars (from German Car Scene)
Stuttgart – The evidence is now clear: drivers of Mercedes vehicles are safer on the road than drivers of other car brands. This is the result of a study of Mercedes accident research based on official, anonymous data samples from the Federal Office of Statistics.
Having looked at 18,748 accidents resulting in personal injury during the period from 2003 to 2007, the study found that the risk of being seriously or fatally injured as the driver of a E?Class, is 10.4 percent lower than for comparable vehicles of other brands.
The study did not even allow for the fact that Mercedes-Benz vehicles are involved in accidents less frequently than the vehicles of other brands – primarily because, among other reasons, Mercedes-Benz was the first manufacturer to introduce ESP® across the board. The study of accident severity only took into account accidents resulting in personal injury. The criteria were initial registration from 2002 onwards, as well as a performance and weight class corresponding to the E?Class.
The result represents clear evidence of the contribution made by the passive safety systems of Mercedes-Benz to reducing the consequences of an accident. Thanks to adaptive front airbags and belt-force limiters, which can adapt to the severity of an impact, rollover sensors, windowbags as standard and an intelligently designed body structure which provides occupants with excellent protection even in the event of severe collisions, at the time of its world premiere in 2002 the E-Class became the new benchmark for passenger car safety in the luxury class.
In the course of a facelift of the E-Class in the spring of 2006, the Mercedes engineers continued to achieve further substantial advances in the field of high-level safety, equipping the E-Class with safety systems which no other passenger car in this class was able to offer. At the time PRE-SAFE® was introduced, the interlinking of systems for accident prevention with occupant protection marked the start of a new era in this vehicle class. This Mercedes invention takes advantage of the time between detecting an accident-prone situation and possible accident damage for occupant protection. With the new E-Class, Mercedes-Benz has continued to build on the advances being made in the field of safety. Around a dozen new or enhanced driver assistance systems contribute to preventing accidents and reducing the severity of an impact. These include the ATTENTION ASSIST drowsiness detection system, as well as the optional DISTRONIC PLUS proximity control system and PRE-SAFE® Brakes with autonomous emergency braking. For the first time, PRE-SAFE® can also make use of information from the short-range radar sensors in the front bumper to tighten the front seat belts in the very last split second before an unavoidable accident, thus helping to reduce the loads suffered by the driver and front passenger in a crash.
With nine airbags as standard, four seat-belt tensioners and belt-force limiters as well as crash-responsive NECK-PRO head restraints for driver and front passenger, the new E-Class provides an even more comprehensive level of safety equipment than its predecessor. As well as the air cushions, which can be activated in milliseconds in the event of an accident, there are also two adaptive airbags for the driver and front passenger, a kneebag for the driver, two sidebags in the front seat backrests, and also two generously sized windowbags which span the area from the A to the C-pillar in the event of a side impact. For the first time, pelvisbags have also been incorporated for the front seat occupants. These can also help to reduce loads in the upper body and pelvic areas in the event of a side collision. Sidebags are also available as an optional extra for the rear passengers, while another safety innovation includes automatic adaptive belt-force limiters in the rear, now available for the first time as an option from Mercedes-Benz. These adjust automatically to the size and weight of the passengers.
[Source: Mercedes-Benz]
This is from "the world's #1 English-speaking German car blog". In Germany, where they take their safety way seriously, Mercedes engineers are allowed by the Police to inspect the scene of a highway crash involving a Benz to learn how to make the cars safer in the future. Mercedes is the only manufacturer allowed this privilege. Engineers are on call 24-hours a day at the factory to respond to a report of a crash within a 100-mile radius of the plant. Dedication to your family's safety doesn't take the night off.
Having looked at 18,748 accidents resulting in personal injury during the period from 2003 to 2007, the study found that the risk of being seriously or fatally injured as the driver of a E?Class, is 10.4 percent lower than for comparable vehicles of other brands.
The study did not even allow for the fact that Mercedes-Benz vehicles are involved in accidents less frequently than the vehicles of other brands – primarily because, among other reasons, Mercedes-Benz was the first manufacturer to introduce ESP® across the board. The study of accident severity only took into account accidents resulting in personal injury. The criteria were initial registration from 2002 onwards, as well as a performance and weight class corresponding to the E?Class.
The result represents clear evidence of the contribution made by the passive safety systems of Mercedes-Benz to reducing the consequences of an accident. Thanks to adaptive front airbags and belt-force limiters, which can adapt to the severity of an impact, rollover sensors, windowbags as standard and an intelligently designed body structure which provides occupants with excellent protection even in the event of severe collisions, at the time of its world premiere in 2002 the E-Class became the new benchmark for passenger car safety in the luxury class.
In the course of a facelift of the E-Class in the spring of 2006, the Mercedes engineers continued to achieve further substantial advances in the field of high-level safety, equipping the E-Class with safety systems which no other passenger car in this class was able to offer. At the time PRE-SAFE® was introduced, the interlinking of systems for accident prevention with occupant protection marked the start of a new era in this vehicle class. This Mercedes invention takes advantage of the time between detecting an accident-prone situation and possible accident damage for occupant protection. With the new E-Class, Mercedes-Benz has continued to build on the advances being made in the field of safety. Around a dozen new or enhanced driver assistance systems contribute to preventing accidents and reducing the severity of an impact. These include the ATTENTION ASSIST drowsiness detection system, as well as the optional DISTRONIC PLUS proximity control system and PRE-SAFE® Brakes with autonomous emergency braking. For the first time, PRE-SAFE® can also make use of information from the short-range radar sensors in the front bumper to tighten the front seat belts in the very last split second before an unavoidable accident, thus helping to reduce the loads suffered by the driver and front passenger in a crash.
With nine airbags as standard, four seat-belt tensioners and belt-force limiters as well as crash-responsive NECK-PRO head restraints for driver and front passenger, the new E-Class provides an even more comprehensive level of safety equipment than its predecessor. As well as the air cushions, which can be activated in milliseconds in the event of an accident, there are also two adaptive airbags for the driver and front passenger, a kneebag for the driver, two sidebags in the front seat backrests, and also two generously sized windowbags which span the area from the A to the C-pillar in the event of a side impact. For the first time, pelvisbags have also been incorporated for the front seat occupants. These can also help to reduce loads in the upper body and pelvic areas in the event of a side collision. Sidebags are also available as an optional extra for the rear passengers, while another safety innovation includes automatic adaptive belt-force limiters in the rear, now available for the first time as an option from Mercedes-Benz. These adjust automatically to the size and weight of the passengers.
[Source: Mercedes-Benz]
This is from "the world's #1 English-speaking German car blog". In Germany, where they take their safety way seriously, Mercedes engineers are allowed by the Police to inspect the scene of a highway crash involving a Benz to learn how to make the cars safer in the future. Mercedes is the only manufacturer allowed this privilege. Engineers are on call 24-hours a day at the factory to respond to a report of a crash within a 100-mile radius of the plant. Dedication to your family's safety doesn't take the night off.
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