Gas Mileage and Gas Prices » kardashian http://www.fueleconomyhelp.com How to Increase Gas Mileage and Beat Gas Prices Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:36:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Mercedes Shark II; Would You Donate it to Charity? http://www.fueleconomyhelp.com/2008/12/the-mercedes-shark-ii-would-you-donate-it-to-charity/ http://www.fueleconomyhelp.com/2008/12/the-mercedes-shark-ii-would-you-donate-it-to-charity/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:11:24 +0000 Fuel Economy Advisor http://www.fueleconomyhelp.com/?p=187 Let’s take a little break from talking about fuel economy – in fact, let’s just forget for a minute that you cared about how many miles per gallon your car got and can afford a $100,000 car – because it seems everyone is talking about the Mercedes Shark II.  It’s an amazing car, born from the union of the Mercedes Benz CLS 55 and the design package by the Mercedes Benz tuning company ASMA Design.

So why is everyone talking about the Mercedes Shark II right now?  Because Kim Kardashian (of Keeping Up With the Kardashians fame) and her boyfriend, Reggie Bush (of the New Orleans Saints, but not as famous), have decided to auction off some of their belongings for charity.  And somehow she talked him into auctioning off his Mercedes Shark II!  It seems they really needed the fame more than the money, however, because they actually submitted a press release to all the major marketing outlets to let everyone know just how “philanthropic” they were being.  I guess he didn’t like it that much anyway – in the past 2 years he only drove it about 7,100 miles.

You can follow the auction for the Shark II on Ebay – it’s up to $80,000 at the time of this writing, and doesn’t end until Dec. 3, 2008.  I tried to find some specs on the car, like how much gas mileage it gets, but it seems when you have that much to spend on a car you’re not so concerned with mpg.  The standard Mercedes CLS four door coupe gets about 12-14 mpg city, and 18-21 highway, and starts at about $65k.  But that’s before ASMA Design got to the car.

ASMA Design took a 2006 Mercedes AMG CLS 55 8-cylinder, chromed it out with a new front grill and chromed alloy rims, and gave it a new Bi-Color finish.  The changes are subtle, but that’s all it takes when you’ve got a brand new Mercedes to work with.  Some more info on the Mercedes Shark 2:

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