http://www.topgear.com/car-news/first-look/mercedes-947bhp-s-class-seas This is Mercedes’ 947bhp S-Class for the seas 19 Apr 2016 Rowan Horncastle
[images http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/fit_980x551/public/images/news-article/carousel/2016/04/6015604a09c975b730072c4615735a1a/16c343_148.jpg?itok=48kv0WmF http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/fit_980x551/public/images/news-article/carousel/2016/04/6015604a09c975b730072c4615735a1a/16c343_150.jpg?itok=BFqbdJil http://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/styles/fit_980x551/public/images/news-article/carousel/2016/04/6015604a09c975b730072c4615735a1a/16c343_149.jpg?itok=VggJedgQ ] German car maker’s latest crossover has no wheels but looks awesome Oh buoy! We don’t speak boat here very often at Top Gear, but there’s been plenty of interesting car-based nautical news over the last few weeks. Just recently we showed you the exceedingly opulent AM37, a wooden decked 1,000bhp powerboat from Aston Martin. But now, Mercedes wants a slice of the sea. It’s just released its own luxury yacht, the Arrow460–Granturismo. It’s not the fist time the German car maker has got its feet wet and melded its motoring knowledge with boats. A few years ago, Merc’s go-faster arm – AMG – took the electronic gubbins from a radiation-spec yellow Mercedes SLS Electric Drive and shoved them into a cigarette racing boat to make the world’s most powerful electric powerboat. Where that was designed solely for speed, the new luxo yatch is for opulent cruising of the seas. If its engineers are to be believed, they threw the best parts of Merc’s motoring nous into a blender alongside the bleeding-edge of boat technology. The end result is a curvaceous 14-metre, 947bhp wonder-dinghy that can accommodate up to ten people. Just like the Mercedes-Benz GLA, the Arrow460–Granturismo is a crossover. But instead of offering a high-driving position with city-friendly dimensions, it has a clamshell at the front that allows for the advantages of a traditional open boat, but can also transform into a hull cabin cruiser when the sun goes down. [© topgear.com] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Mercedes-947bhp-S-Class-10-passenger-wonder-dinghy-for-the-sea-tp4681671.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
