Discussion - Video: Mercedes-Benz Proves Germans Can Create their Own Weather

Description: German engineering on another level - that is the best way to describe Mercedes new indoor testing center. The desire to test vehicles indoors and limit the need for several expensive outdoor tests in...

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Description: The engineers can send temperatures in the test center from a literally freezing minus 40C to a blistering 60C. They can blast the prototypes with hurricane winds up to 165mph and even submit them to ...

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Description: Dr. Weber continued "Likewise, nor can we always rely on getting the extreme high summer temperatures we need for testing, even in America's infamous Death Valley.In our new climatic wind tu...

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Luke Walch Jul 19, 2011
I am glad to see MB doing this. I have a problem that when it rains it shorts out the windshield wipers. So thats not too helpful! I hope they do real world testing because the cold plus hammered roads of Colorado rattle things around not tested here

Stephen Ishard Jul 19, 2011
Ultimate climate control great idea

Anthony Villa-Garcia Jul 19, 2011
I love mercedes benz! Awesome video.

Description: The simulations should allow Mercedes to take only vehicles at an advanced stage of development outdoors for real street testing. Mercedes has further closed the gap between simulation and real-life t...

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Jose Carmona Jul 19, 2011
Now that's a chilly Benz.

Chris Penza Jul 19, 2011
It looks like it's made of stone now

Nick Benz Jul 19, 2011
The display says -5.7 C

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Tanton Stoneman Jul 30, 2011
Who the hell even Mercedes would pretty much freeze an SLS AMG!

Sebastian Grey Jul 20, 2011
This is an SLS Roadster the car on the previous page was an SLK and the car on the next page is an SLK. Come on guys pull yourselves together.

Taylor Holloway Jul 19, 2011
That is definitely an sls

Bryan Bohling Jul 19, 2011
Its the sls roadster above and the last photo is the slk

Parker Lamoreaux Jul 19, 2011
Good hell people. The car above is an SLK. The car in the previous photo with the guy standing in front of it, is an SLS.

Andrew Dizon Jul 19, 2011
Well then it's the sls roadster . . . .

KeX Lim Jul 19, 2011
If you look closely, you can see the door handle. It can't be an sls.

Anthony Cordiale Jul 19, 2011
It is the north pole model

Thaddeus Wade Jul 19, 2011
This is an SLS, last one I'm pretty sure was an SLK.

Chris Penza Jul 19, 2011
Yea I've always loved Audi and benz

Shaun Conroy Jul 19, 2011
That's the beauty of Mercedes, they over-engineer their cars, that's why they are THE BEST.

Chris-topher Urdas Jul 19, 2011
Only Mother Nature would!!

Joel Hayes Jul 19, 2011
Yeah I don't think many people would leave their sls's outside in winter or take them to the artic

James Deean Stevenson Jul 19, 2011
Idk alot of people that would do that to their sls

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Reinaldo Puchu Piñate Jul 20, 2011
I was gonna go to Antarctica for the summer but then i remembered I didn't have a Mercedes...

Anthony Cordiale Jul 19, 2011
This must be the north pole version for Santa clause

Chris Penza Jul 19, 2011
This isn't really the greatest idea

Buddy Robinson Jul 19, 2011
Live in western ny, and i drive with the top down during the winter

Justin Venturelli Jul 19, 2011
It's just the normal thing to do

Scott M Allen Jul 19, 2011
Because everyone drives through sub-zero snow storms with the top down.

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