Mercedes-Benz Design

2011 LA auto show design challenge: Hollywood’s Hottest New Movie Car
Mercedes Silver Arrow - Hubert Lee, Jackson Luttig, Yasu Sato, Alan Barrington
smart 341 parkour - Sylvain Wehnert, Emiel Burki, Phillipp Haban

2010 LA auto show design challenge: 1000 lbs car
Mercedes-Benz BIOME - Hubert Lee, Christopher Rhoades, Nicolas Garfias, Alan Barrington, Daniel Kim, Benjamin Messmer, Jack Luttig
smart 454 WeightWatch Technologies - Emiel Burki, Sylvain Wehnert, Gabriel Nemeth

2009 LA auto show design challenge: Motorsports 2025
Mercedes-Benz Formula Zero - Alan Barrington, George Yoo, Kevin Verduyn

2008 LA auto show design challenge: Robocar 2057
Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow - Gorden Wagener, John Gill, Kevin Kang

2007 LA auto show design challenge: Environmental Sustainability
Mercedes-Benz RECY - Andre Pierre Frey

2006 Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen: "red dot award" for Mercedes-Benz R-Class and S-Class
Rewarding designs expressing modern purity without ornamentation.

2006 LA auto show design challenge: LA Adventure
Maybach California Gourmet Tourer - Atore Perre Frey
Mercedes-Benz Mojave Runner - John Gill

2005 LA auto show design challenge: Ultimate LA machine
Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Fluegeltuer GPS

AA Vision
Benjamin Dimson, Paul Terry, Melonee Ranzinger, Richard Plavetich, Gerhard Steinle, Peter Arcadipane

Verena Kloos -- interior, Como, CLS, Vision Grand Sports Tourer

Nicola Ehrenberg-Uhlig, Manager of Color & Trim

2004 Passat, Concept C, Concept Style Coupe -- Robert Lešnik

first CLK, C-Class Sportscoupe, CLS -- Michael L. Fink

new CLS, MBAD Carlsbad -- Hubert Lee

MBAD Irvine, AAV, smart fortwo, S, E, R129 SL, GLK (G+SLK) -- Gerhard Steinle

"The design principles of Giorgio Armani and Mercedes-Benz complement each other very well".
Interior Design Director Stefan Sielaff -- W221 S-Class

Hartmut Sinkwitz -- smart fortwo, CL, Competence Centre Interior Design W176, W246, W166

Martin Bremer -- Mercedes Interior Competence Center

Murat Günak -- A, CL, M, SLK, SLA Vision, Maybach

M-class replacement, A-, B-, S-Class, CLK, SL, GST -- Steve Mattin

Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design director Steffen Köhl

Christopher Benjamin -- MBAD, Vision GST interior

W164, W166, SLS AMG, CLS -- Mark Fetherston

GST, new SLK, new A-Class, B, C, E, W221, MBAD, BlueZERO -- Gorden Wagener

Marek Reichman -- DBS Rapide Navicross Lagonda

Vaneo, new Sprinter -- Gerhard Honer

Design director MB passenger cars incl M and R -- Dieter Futschik

Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Italia
The interior design competence center in the Villa Salazar in Como selected Hand-finished Matte Burl Walnut trim for the Vision GST and CLS coupe. "By applying the oil-modified resin to the surface, the wood obtains a velvety, natural surface, on which both the structure and the pores are visible and noticeable. The veneer seems to be authentic, giving the same impression as touching a piece of natural wood that has been sanded very carefully." Klaus Villwock, Behr Industries

Cisitalia 202 GT, Metrocubo, Daewoo Nubira, Ferrari 612 Scaglietti -- Sergio Farina

1998 CL interior director Michele Jauch-Paganetti

SLK, A, V, SL, Tokyo, smart -- Michael Mauer

new beetle, TT, Pacifica, Jeep Willys, Tomahawk -- Freeman Thomas

new beetle, TT, A6, KIA -- Peter Schreyer

CS concept, new 7er, F-series, MB Advanced Design -- Karim Habib

Z9, E65 7er, iDrive, E60 5er -- Chris Bangle

Z8, DB9, V8 Vantage, Karma -- Henrik Fisker

Genesis -- Joel Piaskowski

New Beetle, Solistice, Mazda Kabura, Tesla Model S -- Franz von Holzhausen

Yoon Il-hun -- SLR McLaren Stirling Moss

Flaminio Bertoni -- 2 CV, DS 19

Maybach, S-Class, C-Class, Tokyo, Beijing, BDNT EV -- Olivier Boulay

smart ebike -- hu§eindesign

F200 Imagination, Maybach -- Anthony Lo, MB Advanced Design Japan

M-Class (W163) Design Appraisal by Greg Greeson

Gerhard Fritz headed M, G, V-Class technical development.

Mercedes safety engineer Karl-Heinz Baumann invented Pre-SAFE.

Mercedes typewriter - Frank Barrett, MBCA Star Magazine editor

sgi: Dream Factory: At the Virtual Reality Design Center, Seeing is Believing

Tom Gale, Neil Walling, John Herlitz, Trevor Creed -- Pacifica Design Studio Carlsbad

SLS AMG interior -- Hans-Peter Wunderlich

Four-eyed-face - Vieraugengesicht - twin-headlamp face -- Bruno Sacco

Helmut Werner -- smart, A-, M-Class, SLK

Baby Benz, the 190 -- Bruno Sacco w/ engineer Werner Breitschwerdt

ESF 2009 Michael Fehring, Ulrich Mellinghoff

Diamond cut - Diamantschliff or the beautiful 190 -- Bruno Sacco

smooth bumper - fender - S500 -- Bruno Sacco

Grand 600, Pagoda SL, Strich-Acht, W111 W112 W108 W109 -- Paul Bracq

Friedrich Geiger director until 1973; Bruno Sacco director 1974 to 1999; since 1999: Peter Pfeiffer; since 2008: Gorden Wagener

Béla Barényi head of advanced design 1955 to 1972

Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design moves to Carlsbad
"The substantial enlargement of our design studio in California bears testament to the growing importance of design at Mercedes-Benz. With our studios in California, Tokyo, Como and China, we have established a creative basis for important markets. They function as our seismograph for influences emerging from art, culture and architecture."
-- Gorden Wagener

ML63 AMG 4MATIC with 503 hp and 6.3 liter V8
Codenamed M156, it is an all-new naturally aspirated 6.3-liter V8. The M156 is being developed under AMG engine boss Wolf Zimmermann, who is the mastermind behind the 367-hp naturally aspirated (M113 E55) and 500-hp supercharged 5.4-liter V8 powerplants (M113 E55 mL) in AMG models now. Zimmermann also developed the 555-hp 7.3-liter V12 engine that powers the Pagani Zonda S.

designo editions
debut with the 2001 model year M-Class. The cognac edition was offered for the ML320, 430 and 55 for an additional $4000 with Bourbon metallic exterior, two tone charcoal cognac Nappa leather also covering the door panels, steering wheel and gear selector and natural poplar wood trim on the dash, lower console, door opener- and rear window switch surrounds. The mystic green edition followed for the ML320 and 430 with two tone java borneo Nappa leather and natural poplar wood trim.

Research Vehicles
C111-I, C111-II, Auto 2000, NAFA, F100, C112, Vario Research Car, F200 Imagination, F300 Lifejet, F400 Carving, F500 Mind, Bionic Concept, F600 Hygenius, F700 DiesOtto, F800 Style, F125!

"The passion for invention will never die." Carl Benz

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