Mercedes C Coupe

On Tuesday, I went to London to see the Motor Expo show in Canary Wharf. I was planning to look at Lexus LFA and some Jaguars, not Mercedes at all.

The Mercedes stand had nothing really interesting except SLS AMG, which I don’t like at all. However, I saw the new C Coupe but I cannot say I noticed it at the first time. Unfortunately, it looks similar to E Coupe and I did not pay attention. And I found myself accidently inside the new C coupe! This car replaces the Sportcoupe which was a disaster!

Actually, Mercedes knew the problem and they intended to reveal a better model, but it didn't work. This new one is improved so much, I found no reason to buy an E coupe. Really, new C coupe has everything! Safety technologies; distronic plus, bas plus, many airbags, don't sleep function, blind spot system, keep your lane system and many more. All these technologies are available in E coupe too!

In addition to all these, it looks really great and similar to E coupe. I know, E coupe might more legroom in the rear seats but it would be any couple of centimetres extra. Planning to buy a Mercedes coupe? Go and buy C coupe! Meanwhile, E coupe is based on C class also ;)

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Car of the Day # 13 Lexus LFA

Finally I saw the Lexus's performance car in Motor Expo Canary Wharf, London. It does not look really different but sounds extremely different.

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Ugly Beauty: New BMW 1 Series is here!

The new BMW 1 Series revealed couple of days ago. Before I saw the pictures, the rumours emphasised that new 1 Series would be different than current one. I was expecting the same; the current model is absolutely ugly from exterior to interior. And expensive, and slow, and cheap interior, and lack of space, this and goes forever.

Unfortunately, new model is still ugly. I was expecting to see something better designed than the new Ford Focus but no! After the new 5, 6, and 7 Series; my expectations from 1 Series was really high but I am disappointed with the exterior! Hopefully, the interior is one of the best one in the Golf club. All the technological gadgets are transferred to 1 Series and you won’t have the feeling of driving something cheap. Also the rear leg room seems to be improved!

And the best news is, it is still rear wheel drive. I think this is one of my main reasons why some people buy 1 Series. The rest of the Golf club is front wheel drive and it is boring. And 1 Series is only car offers 8 speed automatic gearbox in this segment, I cannot ignore this fact. Placing an 8 speed automatic gearbox into this small car is a great success. And the most powerful engine is 120d with 184HP. As usual, 1 Series offer lots of technologies and comfort with reasonable option list.

Price is higher than its competitors, because it is a BMW. You know the story. If you are planning to buy a small car with luxury interior with BMW technology, this is your best option.

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Techincal Problem

Due to a technical problem, I removed today's post. It will be resubmitted later.

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Designer Interior

This month’s GQ magazine placed different types of iPad covers. I am not going to discuss about each brand but some of them were quite interesting! Hermes and Louis Vuitton. These two luxury brands have very royal consumers, they buy everything for these brands. This can be understood the from the price tags iPad cases, LV is £250 and Hermes is £540.

Hermes iPad case is technically more expensive than the product which is supposed to be protecting. This totally weird and unusual conditions created an idea for automotive industry. If people are ready to pay more money to accessory than the main product, why we don’t use this model for automotive. But it may not be working this well, you cannot offer Hermes leather interior for BMW 7 Series at the price of £100,000! That would be totally pointless and ends up with financial accidents.

However, it is extremely clear that people are ready to pay extra money for luxury brands regardless of their functionality. And I think brands like Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, Bentley, Aston Martin and etc. can offer Hermes or Louis Vuitton leather interior. Bugatti did this with limited edition, it can be transferred to other brands also.

One of the other incentives to create this idea came from Google search results. I noticed that many people are looking for something special for the car interior leather. And I can assume that, they can pay extra couple of thousands for branded leather :)

My suggestion, Louis Vuitton interior may not look that good!

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What is Blogging?

I have been writing this blog for more than one year. And sometimes it is quite hard to describe a blog to someone, who has nobody idea about blogging. Hopefully, Google made a small footage to explain what is blogging :)

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Mercedes Android

I have been criticising Mercedes for many things; branding habit, pricing, design, option list longer than a novel and etc. However, Mercedes contributes many new technologies to automotive industry and I always mention this. Even though the E Class can be one of the dull sedans on market but it offers state of the art safety technologies. Therefore, I always consider Mercedes as a good option, if you buy the technology pack!

For nearly two years, Google Android became a phenomenon. Google offered its first mobile phone in 2008 and now, they are controlling the market. Nobody was expecting to see experience this dramatic performance. Main advantage of Android system is, being open source! Anyone can change the codes and adapt the operation system to their devices. You can install Android to your washing machine, coffee maker, mobile phone and many other things.

Before Android was available, I was sure that one day Google would introduce something for automotive industry. But I couldn’t guess the software or the application. After the Android concept, it was very obvious that Android is going to be in our cars. Of course, it won’t be controlling the engine unit or transmission; actually it would be appear on the dashboard. Like mobile phone, the navigation screen will turn into a mobile phone screen and you can install application, send email, and search the internet.

Finally, this happened. Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster is offered with Android system, you can install applications, surf on the internet as you experience with your mobile phone. The only difference is, SLS AMG is slightly bigger than a mobile phone. This technology will be available in AMG models but not in cheap model :(

Mercedes offered a real innovation to industry, as usual they did not offer it to every vehicle. I think rival should offer the Android technology to their car range as soon as possible.

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Car of the Day # 12 Jeep Commander

I should have posted this yesterday, but I did wanted to give two days for Range Rover Evoque Live event.

Today's car is from year 2006, a Jeep Commander. Many people may not know this SUV. Jeep produced this ugly thing since 2006 until 2010 and realised that, it is ugly and useless.

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