Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA debuts at 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show

Kuala Lumpur: This year the Mercedes-Benz with the first of its world premieres has come in the form of the Concept IAA, which made its debut at the brand’s media night. It is one of the unveilings at the pre-show events.

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Mercedes -Benz has played very well on the game by christening its four-door coupe on that of the show’s name, it might work to grab a lot of attention from the organisers towards this Intelligent Aerodynamic Automobile. As the moniker suggests, the all new IAA concept is all about the brands innovation in the aerodynamic ability, which is very actively done at that.

         

The concept IAA is really a futuristic car, as it can variate its length. In the standard design mode configuration, the Concept IAA measures at 5,040 mm long (with a Cd value of 0.25), but at the touch of a button or when the car hits the 80 km/h mark, it automatically extends to 5,430 mm in its aerodynamic mode, the changes in shape altering the Cd value to 0.19.

Aerodynamics of the car are precisely managed when it extends itself. It's eight segments extend at the rear, making for the primary increase in length. Front flaps in the front bumper also extends by 25 mm to the front and 20 mm to the rear, helping to improve the air flow around the front end and the front wheel arches.

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Apart from the length, its louvre in the front bumper moves 60 mm to the rear, improving the underbody air flow, while the design of the Active Rims (which are 22-inch units) alter their cupping from 55 mm to zero at speeds.

Overall the car measurement figures include a width of 1995 mm and height of 1305 mm while maintaining a wheelbase of 2,975 mm with front/rear track widths measuring 1,710 and 1,770 mm respectively.

The Concept IAA is is not just a concept on the exteriors but also beneath the bonnet. The straight out of dreams car is animated to life by its unique petrol/electric plug-in hybrid drive with a total output of 275 hp. The quoted performance figures reach to an electronically-limited 250 km/h top speed and an all-electric range of 66 km in aerodynamic mode (28 g of CO2 per km) and 62 km (31 g per km) in design mode.

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The designers at the Mercedes Benz should be given a round of applause for their diligent craftsmanship. The car's design is a continued fluidic motion especially in terms of interior outlook. The outsides are primarily painted in white finish with variable trim choices.

The most notable feature inside the car, it its eight nuclear reactor shaped air vents, which have been produced by Swarovski on commission by Mercedes-Benz as a work of art in glass. These diamond cut vents can dazzle any onlooker with its ambient blue and red lighting.

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Mercedes says the interior continues the design line of the W222 S-Class and S-Class Coupe and “provides an idea of what the interior of a business saloon might look like in the near future.” The subtle wording doesn’t quite hide things convincingly.

The heavy tech features car includes a touch-based operating functions buttons for the steering wheel – OFN (Optical Finger Navigation) buttons, embedded in the clusters in a similar hovering manner as the touchpad in the centre console. The Mercedes-Benz touch panel at the centre console is especially revised to enable the driver to scroll through the instrument cluster menus, with the left button controlling the left-hand display and the right button, the right-hand display.

The company hints that this concept will be featuring an E-Class dashboard, while more hints of the future come in the form of the tail lights. It is also been speculated that the automaker is imbued with a look that is evocative of stardust, or the glow of a jet engine. This truly marked a spectacular start to the year's biggest auto show and the mark of the next-generation cars.

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Despite being a biotech professional, Sanchit Agarwal's daydreams of driving a Ferrari and chasing cars in a Grand Prix made him jump into automotive journalism. His childhood craving for the cars started with Hot wheels toys which led him to create pseudo cars on his own. When people loved playing outdoor sports, Sanchit was stuck to his racing video games hidden in a closet. The torque of his creative writing coupled with his passion for moving machines pushed him into Carbay's garage. Sanchit also wonders's, why is he writing this as a third person.

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