Instead of a tiller, it has a computer-style joystick. Instead of three wheels it has four. And instead of a gas engine, it has a super high-tech hydrogen fuel cell powerplant. It's the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Roadster, and it was created as a modern-day homage to the 1886 motorized tricycle that launched the automotive age.
Mercedes-Benz was showing off the little odd-looking buggy on the "concepts lawn" of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance today. The car was created by 150 students in Germany in honor of Mercedes' parent Daimler's 125th anniversary.
Bret Melillo, a product manager who was showing off the car, says that it is good for up to 250 miles of driving on a single tank of hydrogen. It only weighs 1,000 pounds. But those big bicycle-style wheels, meant to mind onlookers of ones on the original, might make for a bit of a rough ride.
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