The impending invasion of autonomous vehicles threatens lớn demote you from the pilot of a machine synonymous with independence to mere cargo in a commodity pod devoid of all spirit. Whatever the truth of this potential nightmare, Mercedes-Benz has pinched itself into waking reality with the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet.
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The swooping concept car, unveiled last weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, rejects all notions of practicality. It measures nearly 18.7 feet long và 6.9 feet wide, yet offers just two seats. The wheels stand 24 inches tall. Although the 6 Cabriolet runs on battery nguồn (its solitary nod to lớn the future) and therefore lacks an engine, the hood makes up about half the car’s length.
The vestigial radiator grille was inspired by a pinstripe suit—something else Silicon Valley is doing its best to lớn kill. The rear end brings to lớn mind a yacht, a theme apparently chosen khổng lồ keep anyone from thinking the oto draws ideas from something useful, lượt thích a container ship.
Naturally, the interior offers a melee of leather, chrome, open-pore wood, và aluminum. Mercedes’s Rumpelstiltskin department even weaved rose gold into the fabric top. When you aren't gazing out over roughly four acres of hood from the driver's seat, you can monitor the car's vital functions with a glance of what Mercedes calls “hyperanalogue” instruments—digital displays with real needles sweeping over them.
Each wheel gets its own electric motor that draws nguồn from the battery that comprises the car’s underbody. All told, they generate 750 horsepower, and the oto will go 200 miles between charges. Well, it might if the oto actually existed. This is a concept.
Mercedes won't actually build the 6 Cabriolet, or anything that looks like it. No, this is simply a showcase of thiết kế ideas, a glimpse of what the company's engineers could vị if freed from constraints lượt thích budgets, practicality, and physics. Be that as it may, you have to like the underlying message here: The pods are coming, but that doesn't mean we have khổng lồ give up opulence.
Alex Davies is a senior editor at Insider and the former editor of WIRED’s transportation section, where he specialized in covering autonomous and electric vehicles. He is also the author of Driven, a book chronicling the origin of & race lớn create the self-driving car.
The convertible concept showcases the design language future Mercedes-Maybach models will posses.
Published On Aug 19, 2017 02:48:00 PM
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Mercedes has revealed its new art deco-inspired Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet concept oto at the Pebble Beach Concours d"Elegance.
A convertible version of the electric Mercedes-Maybach 6 coupé concept, it"s the latest step in Mercedes-Benz’s efforts to lớn further resurrect the image and standing of its luxury sub-brand, Maybach, following strong sales of the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class in key global markets over the past 12 months.
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Taking the stretched lines và intricate detailing of the original 6, which was revealed at last year’s Pebble Beach, the 6 Cabriolet has a retractable roof & a plush new two-seat interior, creating a blueprint for a production model to take on the Rolls-Royce Dawn.
This isn"t the first convertible Mercedes-Maybach, though; at last year’s Los Angeles motor show, the brand unveiled the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class Cabriolet, of which just 300 examples are to be produced.
At 5700mm in length, 2100mm in width và 1340mm in height, the 6 Cabriolet is a considerable 671mm longer, 201mm wider but 71mm lower than the S-Class Cabriolet.
Distinguished by its bold grille, long sweeping bonnet, extreme rearward seating position, towering 24in wheels, extended boat tail-style rear end and two-tone design scheme, the 6 Cabriolet resurrects both the stretched proportions và aesthetic principles common of luxury cars throughout the 1940s & 1950s.
These traditional cues are combined with a number of contemporary touches, including slim LED headlights & full-width OLED tail-lights.
Inside, the 6 Cabriolet has a luxurious interior lined with quilted trắng Nappa leather, a flowing, full-width dashboard featuring the latest in touch-sensitive controls and digital displays featuring traditional analogue needles. The custom-made retractable fabric roof incorporates interwoven threads of gold.
The dramatic styling và elaborate details are claimed to provide hints lớn how Maybach versions of Mercedes models will look in future years in order to lớn give them with a more individual và distinctive appearance.
“The 6 Cabriolet is the embodiment of our design strategy,” said Mercedes" chief kiến thiết officer, Gorden Wagener. “Breathtaking proportions combined with a luxurious haute couture interior help lớn create the ultimate experience.”
The 6 Cabriolet is has a pure electric powertrain delivering a sturdy 760hp via four compact electric motors – a layout similar lớn that used by the short-lived Mercedes-Benz SLS Electric Drive supercar.
The motors act independently on each wheel, making the 6 Cabriolet four-wheel-drive. Computer simulations point lớn a 0-100kph time of less than 4.0sec, while đứng đầu speed is electronically limited to lớn 248kph.
Electricity is stored in a lithium ion battery mounted within the floorplan. Mercedes claims a range of more than 497km on the European demo cycle. A quick charge function, running at up khổng lồ 350k
W, is said to lớn provide an additional range of up to lớn 100km from just five minutes of charging.
