The Mercedes Luxury Machine Applefied by Brabus

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Im sorry but you lost me at "Steve Job's car..." lol
That said though the guys at Brabus tuning do not know the meaning of too much power and i have nothing but the most respect for them.
If you want to strap the Saturn V rocket to your already tuned up AMG then Brabus is just the guys you want to talk to :)
 
Hey, at least when you run out of gas, you can watch a movie or play plants vs. zombies!

But imho if you got the money for that Benz w/ Brabus modz, you could def. go for a screen bigger than 15.6".

Can we get a 24" led monitor maybe?

O wait, forgot watching movies on the ipad is the shizzle!
 
[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Complete BS.I develop embedded microcontroller applications for the automotive market. I want to see this Linux box that someone integrated into a car in under 1 hour. Then I'll consider the years I spent learning the specifics of all the current automotive networking protocols and various mircocontroller platforms as time wasted time, and I'll start really cranking out products in record time using an OS that nobody outside of geekdom gives a rat's ass about.[/citation]
Yeah, OK so the integration may well be rather clever, but it isn't really the point. I think what he was trying to say (although not very well) is that a completely custom built system would be a better replacement. You know, built from the ground up rather than 'bodging' onto an existing system. Not that it's not clever.

Years ago, I went through the whole Car PC phase and it was awesome. 300Gb HD (which was massive then) for movies, music and TV plus Sat Nav and phone control through a 7" touchscreen moulded into the dash. Specifically, the connection to the OBDII allowed me a certain amount diagnostic capability (and some really cool graphs/charts etc.). Wifi and bluetooth also.

This was of course entirely customisable, down to the skin and music visualisation and used whichever conventional ports I wanted to use. And this was 5 or 6 years ago. If I did it now it'd be a shedload more impressive.

It took a sh*tload longer than an hour to fit though.

On the subject of Linux, I have Mac's, Windows machines and Linux machines. I almost always use Linux and I'm no dummy. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Apple's business model sucks hard.
 
[citation][nom]mrmotion[/nom]Just cause its 700hp doesnt mean the fuel mileage sucks. At 638 the Zr1 still get 20 mpg highway. FYI[/citation]THIS I already know... I KNEW someone would bring this up. Couple of things... The ZR1 is MUCH lighter than this BEAST. 2. What is the CITY mpg on the ZR1? 3. It's a Mercedes. This Mercedes with the modified motor is GUARANTEED to suck up more fuel than a 2001 Dodge Durango which I might add gets about 8mpg city.
 
[citation][nom]thesupermedium[/nom]20 mpg hwy with 700hp? Nah. More like 4.A ferrari 430, which I'll ad has half the horsepower and way better aero, not to mention much lighter, managed about 0.9 mpg when raced around a typical race track.[/citation]

Really? Come on man. Of course a car being raced gets .9mpg

Im sure a luxury car will get more than 10mpg if driven normally. The Ferrari is tuned to use as much gas as possible to produce as much power as possible while racing, thus it gets terrible mpg
 
[citation][nom]firefoxx04[/nom]Really? Come on man. Of course a car being raced gets .9mpg Im sure a luxury car will get more than 10mpg if driven normally. The Ferrari is tuned to use as much gas as possible to produce as much power as possible while racing, thus it gets terrible mpg[/citation]

let me also add that most of that power is prolly mid to high end poweer. I bet you see very little power until 3000rpm
 
Knowing Germans and Germany.

I know that man will be kicked out of Germany forever!!! Lol.

Disgracing a Mercedes with pop culture icons like Apple products lol.

Germans cars are always serious and up to business; like PC's. And just like PC's, they may not be as reliable as Macs, they sure do get the job done 50x better than the competition, all while getting little commendation and attention (apple= ferrari's/normal cars,merc=Pc's) Attention wise, how many times have you not looked at a Mercedes on the road, allot of times, how many ties have you looked at a Ferrari on the road, all the time.

PS. I think the BMW 760li is better!
 
Model Mercedes-Benz S 600L
Engine type 12 cylinders, 5513cc
Power 500bhp @ 5000rpm
Torque 590 lb ft @ 1800rpm
Transmission Five-speed automatic
Suspension (front) double wishbones air springs; (rear) multi- link axle, air springs
Tyres 275/45 ZR18 Fuel (combined) 19.1mpg
Acceleration 0 to 60mph: 6.8sec
Top speed 155mph (limited)
Price £87,580

This is before the modification. 19.1 combined. Let's just call that the "average".
 
[citation][nom]ukgooey[/nom]Years ago, I went through the whole Car PC phase and it was awesome. 300Gb HD (which was massive then) for movies, music and TV plus Sat Nav and phone control through a 7" touchscreen moulded into the dash. Specifically, the connection to the OBDII allowed me a certain amount diagnostic capability (and some really cool graphs/charts etc.). Wifi and bluetooth also.This was of course entirely customisable, down to the skin and music visualisation and used whichever conventional ports I wanted to use. And this was 5 or 6 years ago.

I almost always use Linux and I'm no dummy. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Apple's business model sucks hard.[/citation]

OBDII port stuff is extremely simple. Sure you get access to engine data, but that's about it. You may have had, for example, NAV done on your car PC, but this system is using Apple devices as a front end to control the vehicle's systems. This is WAAAY beyond using a simple OBDII connector.

This Mercedes uses multiple networks (CAN, LIN, MOST as an example) and different computers in the vehicle are connected through different networks depending on their requirements. For example, engine, transmission and ABS/stability control would be on their own dedicated high-speed CAN network to allow for extremely fast information transfer between them, something needed when the vehicle needs to make a lightning fast decision.

Some of these networks use twisted pair wiring, others use fiber-optic. Some modules will actually have both types of connections (like gateway modules transferring information from various systems - like getting radio/stereo information from the multimedia network to display on a different bus connected to your instrument cluster).

Brabus, with their close ties to Mercedes, would have access to the various protocols used in this car, which would allow them to develop specific interfaces to allow external devices access to control vehicle systems. It is very likely they have direct access to the vehicles networks and didn't even bother to use the OBDII port.

This whole undertaking wasn't done by a couple people "fooling around" with integration. They would be highly skilled engineers at the same level as those that develop consumer products that we all buy and love.

These same people with this amount of incredible skill chose to integrate Apple products into this vehicle. They are very likely far more intelligent than any people posting in this thread. Which is why I laugh at the people saying it's a stupid, crappy system.


BTW, I've tried Linux. I don't use it because it can't run any of the software I need. All of my development tools, compilers, engineering software and the like run on Windows. Period.
 
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