Champion boat racing team Cigarette Racing has partnered with Mercedes over the years to design competition boats inspired by the German automaker’s luxury sports cars. Today, Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing give us a hint of their latest collaboration with the teaser sketch of the AMG GT S-inspired Cigarette Racing 50’ Marauder GT S Concept.
Details are obviously being reserved for the reveal, but judging from their last cooperation, the 50-footer should be a stunner.
Last year’s Mercedes-derived boat was inspired by the Mercedes Vision Gran Turismo concept, a car designed solely for Playstation’s Gran Turismo 6 racing game. The previous boat matched the digital Merc in it’s sleek profile and dashboard accents to match the future stylings of the vision concept.
In turn, the concept sketch for the Marauder GT S looks like it takes much of the aggressiveness from the Grand Tourer and shapes it in to boat form. The last boat also boasted two 1,650 horsepower Mercury engines to propel it to victory. It’s a substantial amount more than the 503 hp coming out of the Mercedes AMG GT S’s 4.0-liter biturbo V8.
The racing boat concept will be unveiled to the public alongside its German four-wheeled cousin on February 12th at the Miami International Boat Show.
BYD has launched the third-generation Qin Plus DM-i in China, and the first thing that caught my eye is its price. According to CarNewsChina, the plug-in hybrid sedan starts at 79,900 yuan, which is about $11,980. That’s an incredibly low price for a brand-new car, especially by US standards.
What’s even more impressive is the range. The Qin Plus DM-i can drive up to 137 miles on electricity alone, which should cover most people’s daily commutes without using a drop of gas. Once the battery runs out, the 1.5-liter engine takes over. Thanks to its 17-gallon tank and roughly 91 mpg with a drained battery, the combined range reaches up to 1,423 miles.
Apple won the PC market’s worst quarter, but that’s not the entire story. It won the race by stumbling less than everyone else.
PC makers shipped just 57 million computers worldwide in Q3, which might look good, but it’s a 21% year-over-year plunge (via Counterpoint Research). And despite Apple’s Mac shipments falling by 11%, to 5.6 million, its market share rose from 8.7% to 9.8%. How did that happen?
Update (October 22 23:54 PT): In response to our query, GM clarified that offline recording support is already available on eligible vehicles. Like Tesla's Sentry Mode, it requires owners to connect a USB drive to save incident recordings, which can be viewed on the vehicle's infotainment screen. The upcoming Connected Cameras feature will build on this by giving owners remote access to these recordings via the revamped OnStar app, allowing them to check footage without walking out to their car.
General Motors has announced plans to add a new Connected Cameras feature to its OnStar service starting next year, giving drivers a way to monitor parked vehicles remotely and capture footage of certain incidents.