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Mercedes-Benz engineers test out their "tweet fuel" - Click above to watch video after the jump
Automakers have taken to social media with varying degress of success. On one side, we've got the
Ford Fiesta Movement and on the other we've got... nearly every other automaker's social outreach. And now, we have
Mercedes-Benz.
Four teams of two have been picked to race Dallas at Cowboys Stadium, with one team each leaving from New York, Tampa, Chicago and Los Angeles. Each team is captained by a "celebrity" well-versed in the Twitter universe - an odd combination of "coaches," but they've got what Mercedes wants: 7,087,730 followers, combined.
So how does Twitter factor into the race? Each team needs to collect something Mercedes is calling "tweet fuel" and it's based on the rather vague description of "twitter activity."
Said "fuel" will help push the team further in their respective vehicles, with NY behind the wheel of a
2011 Mercedes-Benz CL550 4Matic, Tampa driving a
2011 E550 Cabriolet, Chicago getting the keys to a
2011 GL350 BlueTec and LA will use a
2011 S400 Hybrid. If they "win," each member will receive a
2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe.
One more note, Mercedes has put out a teaser of a faux Tweet-guided CL, proving once again that automakers are better at contrived stunts than viral videos. Check it out for yourself
after the jump.
[Source: Mercedes-Benz]
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