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Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept, Specs, Specifications, Pictures, Wallpapers, Photos, Review. The LA Auto Show will be getting more than it bargained for with its 2010 Design Challenge- thanks to the designers at Mercedes-Benz. The German automaker has come up with a concept that will even give the breathtaking Lamborghini Sesto Elemento a run for its money. Coming out of the coffers of the automaker’s hi-tech design studio in Carlsbad, California, the Biome concept car is a futuristic looking green machine.

Totally fitting to a certain guy named Hubert, the studio head who was behind the jazzy Mercedes-Benz CLS we saw at the Paris Motor Show and the F800 Style concept car unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show earlier this year.The Biome concept came into being after the 2010 Los Angeles Design Challenge was created with a few tight rules: to develop a safe and comfortable two-plus-two compact car that weighs no more than 1000lb (454kg). And Merc has used a generous splash of BioFibre to make sure the new concept car tips the scales at just 875.5lb (394 kg). For the lovers of fiction and fantasy, the German automaker has claimed that the Biome blooms from seeds infused with the Mercedes-Benz DNA, and derives most of its energy from the good old Sun. This is accomplished by storing the energy in chemical bonds, in the form of a fluid called BioNectar4534. To complete the green quotient, the concept car even sputters out pure oxygen into the environment.

Those hoping to have their sci-fi dreams fulfilled at the show might be in for a little disappointment though. Mercedes-Benz has decided to save the best for the last, and we might be feasting our eyes on this beauty only at the prize-distribution ceremony for the LA Design Challenge. Reportedly, the automaker will be shelling out two other concept cars: the Smart 454 Weight Watch Technology designed at its Sindelfingen-based studio in Germany and Maybach eRikscha from its Yokahama-based studio in Japan during the show.

Each year the LA Auto Show plays host to the Los Angeles Design Challenge, where aspiring designers partner with automakers to envision the future of mobility. This year’s theme was to create the 1,000-pound car, and Mercedes-Benz’ three designs – one from the U.S., another from Germany and yet another from Japan – are predictably out there. The entrant from Mercedes’ U.S. design arm in Carlsbad, CA was not only rendered but built into a full-scale model. The basis for the Biome Concept is a vehicle that “grows in a completely organic environment from seeds sown in a nursery.”

Not only that, but it’s powered by a combination of the sun and a chemical bond from an imaginary liquid dubbed BioNectar4534. It’s all natural, all organic and all science fiction. Size-wise, the Biome comes in at a theoretical 875 pounds, but it’s massively wide, slightly shorter than a CL and about as tall as a Vector. M-B’s German design team created the Smart Weight-Watch, an ultra-compact dunebuggy with removable and recyclable plastic and cloth panels, a carbon fiber tub and tires (you read that last part right) and a lithium-ion battery powering two 15 kW motors. Total weight: exactly 1,000 pounds. Finally there’s the Maybach eRikscha from Japan, a four-passenger, two-wheeled “amalgamation of organic intelligence and biomechanical engineering artistry.”

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