When the new Formula One season started at the weekend in Melbourne there was again an AMG Mercedes in the front row when the action started Down Under. The house-tuner for the Mercedes-Benz group will again be the supplier of the safety cars for the 2012 season. The classic safety car itself takes the form of an SLS AMG but there is also a C63 AMG ‘T’ to rush medical staff to the site of any accident which might involve driver injury.
A tuned Mercedes S-Class must not inevitably look like a car driven by a gangster. Inden Design proves that customization does not have to rule out good taste with an S 500 in the style of a S 65 AMG.
Hamann’s showpiece for the 2011 Geneva Motor Show is a strikingly re-styled Mercedes SLS AMG. Not only its name, Hawk, takes some getting used to, its look will not be to the taste of everyone. But the tuner has certainly given the sports model with the gull-wing doors a serious technical upgrade.
Time to blow out the birthday candles. In the first part of our article read how the Daimler story started with spluttering two-wheeled, three-wheeled and four-wheeled contraptions, how the famous three-pointed star came about and the role played by women in the driver’s seat.