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Attention gamers: Mercedes-Benz is coming with a unique virtual model especially for the League of Legends world championship. That seems and is irrelevant, although this Mercedes-Benz SMNR does show what happens when designers are not slowed down by anything and anyone.
“Mercedes-Benz Project SMNR (Summoner) is powered by the energy of the worldwide fan community: all gamers, along with their avatar, called ‘Summoner’, are represented by an energy particle in the vehicle.” For the undersigned, a non-gamer, this sentence from the press release might as well have been written in Japanese. So we limit ourselves today to the car in question, which looks interesting to say the least. The two-seater for ‘League of Legends’ (LoL) is transparent, partly made possible by the fact that it doesn’t really exist. That is also the major driving force behind the technical design of this vehicle, which has ‘bioluminescent energy particles’ and ‘flowing structures’ instead of solid supporting parts. You can’t, but that seems to be the point.
“For the first time, we were able to set aside the limits of material use and physics and let our creativity run wild. In the virtual world, there are no limits to what we can create,” said Gorden Wagener, Chief Design Officer Mercedes-Benz Group AG. The SMNR’s curvy, flowing lines still reflect Mercedes’ actual design language, as does the field of Mercedes stars on the nose. After all, we also find that grille-like solution optionally on some EQ models.
The wheels appear to be an integral part of the body and project well beyond the car on all sides. The carriage itself is strongly rounded at the bottom and rear and therefore undoubtedly very streamlined. That fits in with the real Mercedes-Benz, which likes to show what good aerodynamics can produce with both production models and concept cars.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl