📍 ‘A bonnet long enough to host a gin tasting.’
Mercedes-Benz has just revealed the Vision Iconic, a concept that makes every other EV look like a household appliance.
Imagine 1930s grand tourer glamour reimagined for 2035 — long bonnet, illuminated grille, and solar paint that charges itself while sunbathing in Monte Carlo.
Inside, it’s all brass, velvet, and genius.
It’s not a car. It’s an electric time machine.
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◼︎ Mercedes-Benz has a peculiar habit of reminding the world that grace and speed can still cohabit in the same sentence. The Vision Iconic is its latest love letter to the past and future.
◼︎ Unveiled last week, it’s what happens when a 1930s grand tourer spends a long weekend with a Silicon Valley engineer and returns with impeccable taste.
◼︎ A sweeping bonnet, illuminated grille, and body coated in solar paint capable of generating roughly 7,000 miles of energy per year is not designed for the sake of it; it’s poetry in aluminium and photons.
◼︎ Step inside and it’s pure theatre: a ‘hyper-analogue’ cabin trimmed in deep-blue velvet, brass accents, and glass instrumentation.
◼︎ It’s less of a car interior and more of a Mayfair cocktail lounge with a steering wheel.
◼︎Beneath the charm lies formidable intellect: neuromorphic computing and steer-by-wire technology designed to learn and adapt, reducing energy use while making autonomy feel almost human.
◼︎ Mercedes admits it’ll likely never reach production — but that’s not the point.
◼︎ The Vision Iconic is a manifesto, a declaration that luxury doesn’t have to forget its lineage while racing towards the future.
📍 ‘An electric car for people who still believe in cufflinks.’
