Did You Know - Mercedes Benz 600 Edition

Ten Little-Known Facts About the Mercedes-Benz 600 

Historically owned by royalty, it has windows that will take your arm off, if you're not careful. 

3. A window can take your arm off. The window switch, which makes it possible to take your arm off, costs $11,200.

The 600's windows are operated by a variable-rate switch—essentially a pressure-sensitive valve body that lives in the door and routes fluid to the window regulators.

When lowering the window, this switch acts in a simple on-off fashion; push it, the window moves at one speed. When raising the window, however, the switch offers a variable rate—pressing it gently creeps the glass up, but nailing it slams the window shut fast enough to slice off a body part. You can hear it whunk into the door. It sounds like a cleaver pounding into a chopping block.

For some ungodly reason, this switch, which also operates all four windows from the driver's side, currently retails for $11,200 from Mercedes-Benz. Fortunately, it can be repaired for a more reasonable price. The suspension-height switch—the cockpit valve that adjusts the 600's ride height—goes for a more manageable $1400.

Complete list (Road&Track.com)

I'd Rock This Time Piece

Nixon Sentry Chrono Leather 42 - $250

I’ve been a Nixon fan since the early 2000s, as they’ve been building stylish but inexpensive and quality timepieces for all that time. They were also featured heavily in action sports magazines that I loved back then, and advertising does work. In any case, as their target market has aged, they’ve started providing more adult designs, like this one. The Sentry Chrono is part of their “Speedster” collection of watches.

Check out the Sentry Chrono on Nixon.com.

(Jalopnik.com)

This Is A Well Built Sedan

(SpeedHunters.com)

Humanity Has A New Super Hero

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It's Simple. Car Vs Human, Car Will Always Win. Duh!

Why pedestrian death rate is shooting up, and how to save more lives 

IIHS says one vehicle type has an 81 percent spike in fatalities 

Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. are climbing at an alarming rate, jumping 46 percent since reaching a low point in 2009, according to federal data. Now, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety identifies some trends behind the numbers and offers some recommendations.

Among the IIHS' findings: Pedestrian crashes have become not only more frequent, but deadlier, with deaths per 100 crashes with pedestrians rising 29 percent from 2010, when they reached their lowest point, to 2015. Unsurprisingly, the increase is happening mostly in urban and suburban areas, in the dark, and the fatalities are generally happening away from intersections, on busy main roads or arterial roads.

(AutoBlog.com)