The Car Hub

This first illustration shows one of the new range of Mercedes cars due for release in the next 2-3 years.
As a replacement for the current A class this new model is set to challenge the Golf, A3 and BMW1 head-on in performance and quality.
Expected to be on sale in 2012 in both 3 and 5 door versions these upmarket small cars will have new super efficient diesel and petrol units with stop-start technology.

After all the “yes he will” and “no he won’t” of the last few weeks, just over an hour ago at the Mercedes base in Brackley, Northants,  Michael Schumacher signed up for the next Formula1 season.
The 7 times world champion has signed a 1 year contract and will have Nico Rosberg as his team mate.

Willi Weber, Michael Schumacher’s manager has informed the German media that the seven times world champion is “absolutely fit” The overhanging problem of Schumacher’s neck seems to have been solved with Willi Weber stating that “his neck is completely fine, he could drive for victories”.

There always has been a lot of uncertainty about the happenings inF1, some uncertainty has been about whether the technical aspect of a car is correct or not, whether a circuit will continue to host GP races and who will drive for whom next season.
Regarding drivers the F1 rumour machine is well revved-up with Michael Schumacher in the spotlights.

Those bright engineers at German car maker Mercedes have come up with some very innovative new safety features for incorporation in their future cars.

Their concept car, which is based on the S400 Hybrid, is known as the E.S.F. 2009 concept, not since 1974 have Mercedes called one of their designs ESF – Experimental Safety Vehicle.

Their latest safety innovations are mainly add-ons to their existing Pre-Safe system, which applies brakes and automatically tightens seat belts when a collision is imminent.