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Mercedes Presents Luxury Designer ProductsMcCall’s Motorworks Revival

Stuttgart/Monterey, USA (8/14/2014) -- Mercedes-Benz Style will present its luxury designer products on August 13th, 2014 at the 23rd McCall's Motorworks Revival in Monterey. Rare classics, today's best and highest-end in automobile production, as well as stylish motorcycles and first-class private jets characterize the ambiance at McCall's Motorworks Revival. Every year, movie stars, moguls and members of the international jet set meet up at one of the most exclusive lifestyle events in the U.S., here at the Monterey Jet Center. They use this occasion not just to indulge their passions but also to raise money for charities in a relaxed environment. For the first time, the annual event, which traditionally opens the Monterey Car Week, will also include Mercedes-Benz Style designers and their luxury lifestyle products. Airbus Helicopters' EC145 Airbus Mercedes-Benz Style helicopter as well as a two-meter-long model of a new luxury motor yacht, the Arrow 460 Granturismo, are special highlights of the Mercedes-Benz Style show.

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Singer Vehicle Design Displays $2M of Restored Vehicles at Monterey

LOS ANGELES – (August 13, 2014) - During a weekend globally recognized for representing the "best of the best" within the glamorous world of fine motoring, Singer Vehicle Design (SVD), the dedicated coach-building company that restores and modifies existing vintage Porsche automobiles, is set to make a very bold statement – by showcasing nearly $2m-worth of restored vehicles throughout the Monterey Peninsula August 12 – 17, 2014 – and specifically, boasting the most extreme versions to be displayed by SVD yet. According to Rob Dickinson, creator and founder of SVD, the excitement for Singer this week is to present two sides of the restoration and modification work carried out by the company – beginning with an overtly luxurious gentleman's touring car and continuing with a completely over-the-top sports version.

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All-New 2015 Renovo Coupe at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., (Aug. 15, 2014) -- Renovo Motors, Inc. today introduced the world to the groundbreaking Renovo Coupe with a production prototype on display at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Founded in 2010 with the mission to build the world's most exciting vehicles, Renovo has operated in stealth mode for over four years as they developed and refined their patent-pending EV technology. The Coupe-the first all-electric American supercar-is the culmination of these efforts.

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Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé Waterspeed Collection at Pebble

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, (August 15, 2014) -- The Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé Waterspeed Collection, which was conceived to celebrate Sir Malcolm Campbell's act of setting a new world water-speed record in 1937, has made its North American debut following its presentation at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering Event this morning. On Sunday, it will appear by the water at the Concours D'Elégance at Pebble Beach – the world's premier celebration of the automobile and a fitting backdrop to the latest Collection car from Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It was on the morning of 1 September 1937 that Campbell established his legend, setting a world-record speed of 126.33mph on Italy's Lake Maggiore in the famous Bluebird K3 boat powered by a Rolls-Royce R-Engine.

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McLaren P1 GTR Design Concept Debuts at Private Pebble Beach Event

(8/15/2014) -- Twenty years ago, the then soon-to-be-launched McLaren F1 GTR began testing ahead of an assault on the 1995 GT season. The track derivative, as the road-going version had done, rewrote the rule book and the claimed victories and titles across the globe in the years that followed, securing a place in motorsport folklore. Two decades on, and the covers have been pulled off the dramatic and purposeful McLaren P1™ GTR design concept during a private event at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance event in California. The aggressive racing concept is a preview to the final model which, with a little under a year until production commences, has now entered the next phase as the development team works to hone and further optimise the ultimate track-focused racer.

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EcoMotors: Changing Design from the Inside Out

To spur car companies into action, EcoMotors is showcasing how this can impact and revolutionize styling. To this extent a design competition, EcoMotors Design Challenge: Reshaping the Future, with students from Art Center and CCS is exemplifying just what could be possible. Judging by the results I would say anything and everything!

Inspired Design – Art Center Car Classic 2012

Those who are frequent guests to this annual event at the Art Center College of Design have to laugh at the weather on this October morning. We typically have to brave one of two types of days for the gathering high a top the Pasadena hills. It’s either blistering hot - just a few degrees cooler than the surface of the sun, or rain.