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Mercedes color and trim manager on the new SL-Class interior [w/video]

Mercedes has released a video as part of the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, discussing interior design details of the new 2013 SL-Class. In the video Nicola Ehrenberg-Uhlig, manager of color and trim for Mercedes-Benz, explains the choices made when the vehicle was designed and how the design team wanted to convey the car's personality via special materials. Aviation is the theme for the new SL-Class, which in the designers' minds stood for clear design, functionality, speed and power.

Bondholders snub GM, bankruptcy filing likely

Nowhere near enough General Motors bondholders agreed to exchange their debt for stock before a midnight Tuesday deadline, making a bankruptcy filing by the automaker highly likely. GM had set a threshold of 90 percent of the $27 billion in bond debt it wanted to exchange for 10 percent of the stock in a reorganized company for the deal to take place. In a statement Wednesday, GM said the amount of notes tendered was substantially less than the 90 percent target.

Jay Leno learns to drive his own McLaren MP4-12C at Dunsfold +video

Jay Leno learns to drive his McLaren MP4-12C You happen to be one of the worlds’s best-known petrolheads, and you also own one of just 64 McLaren F1 road cars ever made. So when the company that made your McLaren F1 decides to make a new car – albeit not quite at the same exalted level of supercardom as the F1 – you have to have one. So you phone McLaren and place an order.