This is going to be one very quick, very special car. The outgoing model was fast in anyone’s book – a mad creation made by shoehorning the DBS’s V12 into the smaller package that is the V8 Vantage.
Having driven many miles at the wheel of various V12 Vantages, I can vouch for their outright pace and somewhat over-the-top behaviour in anything less than perfect driving conditions. Spinning the wheels at 100mph in fourth gear still lives in the memory.
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Fittingly, the concept made its debut today at the Nürburgring Nordschleife during the 2013 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours. The CC100 Speedster Concept lapped the daunting ‘green hell’ with Dr. Bez at the wheel, accompanied on the track by none other than Sir Stirling Moss in the DBR1 in which Moss and Jack Fairman won the 1959 1,000km sports car race.
Designated the W222, the latest generation of Mercedes’ flagship saloon promises to be the safest, most luxurious and most intelligent S-Class of all time. Building on the still-impressive feature roster of the previous model, the new car scans the roads and surroundings ahead using numerous cameras – automatically adjusting the damping and lighting to suit. Tick the right boxes on the options list and you could allow the adaptive cruise control to keep an eye on things while your seat mimics a hot-stone massage.
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