Mercedes to Tesla: “We’re gonna show you how to do this, son.” Electric supercar on the way. [Crunch Gear]
A new “invisible” camera flash will let you snipe all the photos you want in the back of the club. Amazing.
[New Scientist]
Futura and Livestrong are teaming up on a money-print bike seat that allows you to jam international currency up your butt. [Hypebeast]
In FOH news, the BAPE x Ghostbusters collection has been unveiled. [High Snobiety]
Balance your media diet. [Boing Boing]
The horsepower wars are over! Sort of. The war may still rage on, but Mercedes Benz has gracefully bowed out. MB’s performance division AMG released a statement yesterday that says they are now going to focus on a lower emissions strategy for all future models and pursue technologies that can improve performance by optimizing engines and reducing curb weight. Right. These are the same dudes who made 500hp station wagons.
Truthfully, as long as their models still rip around tracks faster than Yung Bergs manager running from the cops, we’ll be happy. In anticipation of MB’s first lightweight, fuel sipping models, we compiled a list of our favorite lightweight sports cars. Whatever they build has to be at least on par with these. If not, they should be back to making 500hp family cars. Check out the best of the best below…
• Car: Caterham Superlight R500 2.0L
• Made of: Carbon fiber and fiber glass.
• Power: 263hp
• Weight: 1,115 lbs
• Price: $55,585
• Claim to fame: Track monster. Top Gear’s 2008 Car of the Year. Caterham claims their cars are made for the track but can be driven on the daily. Right. Unless you live in SoCal and don’t mind driving an inch from the ground and feeling every crack in the road, this ain’t a daily driver.
When the news broke that McLaren Mercedes’ star Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton drove a Benz GL truck, most were puzzled. Sure, we’d snatch the keys faster than it takes Yung Berg to make an apology video, but we’re just journalists'Lewis Hamilton, on the other hand, is the best rookie driver Formula 1 has seen in years. We expected him to be pushin’ something fast, exotic and menacing. Something like the new Mercedes Benz SL65 Black Series.
Like the other Black Series cars, the SL got put on a carbon fiber diet to bring its total weight down to 4,123 pounds (551 pounds lighter than the standard SL). Under its vented hood lies the same twin-turbo’d V12 that’s in the regular SL65, only this one has been tweaked to spit out 57 more ponies, bringing the power up to 670. With only 350 being made and a price tag of $320,000, you’ll have to be a “somebody” to cop one. Lewis, we think it’s time you traded in the GL, homie. Check out more photos and a video of the SL65 Black ripping around a track below.
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