Mercedes Terminal Mode partnership comes to fruition with internet-connected 2012 C-Class

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Mercedes Terminal Mode partnership comes to fruition with internet-connected C-Class" border="1" height="288" hspace="4" src="http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/5179/mercterminal20101227.jpg" vspace="4" width="400" /></div><br /> Last year Nokia made something of a telematics coup, partnering with just about every major European manufacturer and doing everything it could to get its Terminal Mode in-car smartphone integration into more autos. Mercedes was one of those partners and now we're getting a glimpse of the result in the new C-Class. Merc has made some minor exterior updates to the car (not necessarily for the better, in our opinion), but on the inside comes an updated Mercedes COMAND infotainment system that, for the first time, offers full internet access. Using Terminal Mode the car interacts with a smartphone to provide the data, allowing dashboard surfing (while stationary) and the transmission of Google Maps points and directions right to the vehicle. There's also Bluetooth for streaming your tunes through the car's sound system and a USB port in the armrest to keep things charged while you decimate that slab. PR is below if you're looking for more details, or you can just wait for our impressions when we get to Detroit in a few weeks.<br /> <h6></h6><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/27/mercedes-terminal-mode-partnership-comes-to-fruition-with-intern/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>

Mercedes Terminal Mode partnership comes to fruition with internet-connected 2012 C-Class

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Mercedes electric SLS AMG E-Cell previewed: neck-snapping and retina-searing (video)

<DIV class=separator style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvesh1ME4PxTNaD8peSsWRSY-FdBNWIUUWeWSVedI75irqupOCDIh-hDzpqz69VQ-osqbXl7n4zwX7-JwRwH4oDc2rgR54UppQolaJCEaJBfGbyggQWvltDvfiIGEshZh8xQTtCZVzyg/s1600/sls-ecell-2010-12-16-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvesh1ME4PxTNaD8peSsWRSY-FdBNWIUUWeWSVedI75irqupOCDIh-hDzpqz69VQ-osqbXl7n4zwX7-JwRwH4oDc2rgR54UppQolaJCEaJBfGbyggQWvltDvfiIGEshZh8xQTtCZVzyg/s1600/sls-ecell-2010-12-16-600.jpg"></A></DIV>If ever a post needed a sunglasses warning this one is it. Check out that paint job. It's a pretty hot hue for a pretty hot car, the E-Cell, a Mercedes SLS AMG that has had its internal combustion assets stripped and replaced with not one, not two, but four</EM> electric motors. That's one per wheel, naturally, and if you add them all up you get the equivalent of 528hp, a little short of the production car's 563hp, but torque is up to 649ft/lbs from the stock car's 479 -- and being electric that's all available from the start. Sadly, though, twisting force isn't the only thing that's swelled, with this car adding a whopping 880lbs to an already heft 3,571. According to Auto Express</EM> that's had a decidedly negative effect on handling, but it does at least offer a quite respectable 125 mile range. No information yet on cost or when exactly Mercedes might put this thing into production, but earlier word was we won't see it on the streets anytime before 2013. You'd better prepare yourself now by staring at the sun for a few minutes a day, and do yourself a favor: start squinting before you click "play" on the video below.

Mercedes electric SLS AMG E-Cell previewed: neck-snapping and retina-searing (video)

If ever a post needed a sunglasses warning this one is it. Check out that paint job. It's a pretty hot hue for a pretty hot car, the E-C...

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