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At the Pebble Beach Contest, Mercedes will take a concept car inspired by the 1930s racing cars, the Silver Arrow, although it will incorporate among its technical characteristics a fully electric propulsion system.
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is a competition that has been held since 1950, in which collectors’ cars from all over the world compete. As they define the event, the contest rewards the vehicle’s style and technical merit, its history, originality, and care for its preservation and restoration. However, this exhibition also serves as a showcase for some of the most anticipated “concept cars” in the world, as well as the new vehicles that debut each year.
In this context, Mercedes will take its concept car to Pebble Beach, on August 24, with a design that recalls those of the 1930 racing vehicles and that pays homage to the Silver Arrows legacy.
Mercedes left to see spectacular photos of the vehicle last month, when Gorden Wagener -Director of Design of the German brand- and his team revealed them through a social network. It was a new design, called “Aesthetics Progressive Luxury”, which evoked the records of aerodynamic efficiency of Mercedes before the outbreak of World War II. The truth is that the images are spectacular and allowed to see certain classic touches in the new design.
The truth is that the Mercedes design team is right when it says that the concept transmits movement, which embodies dynamism and speed in a fascinating way.
The funny thing is that Wagener has published a video teaser a few days ago in which he draws the line of the Aesthetics Progressive Luxury and he knows that it will be electric, since a small hint appears at the bottom, in the form of a hashtag: #eqsilverarrow and #SwitchToEQ.
We believe that the future electric models of Mercedes are not going to look like old racing cars, but the German manufacturer has hinted that it can be expected that some design elements of this concept will be reflected in the new EQ of the brand.
The first electric vehicle that Mercedes Benz will launch on the market, as we said a few months ago, is the EQC, an SUV that will be presented in October at the Paris Motor Show and will be on sale in 2019. we said later that the second model of this electric range would be the EQA, a compact electric whose prototype was presented at the last Frankfurt Motor Show.
This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.
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