What's Wrong With This Picture: Professional Driver, Slow Motion Edition

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

Strangely, this disclaimer isn’t even the funniest thing about the fresh-to-Youtube E-Class Cabriolet ad [available after the jump]. That prize goes to the way the otherwise undeniably handsome E-Cab looks with its “Aircap” system deployed. No wonder this previous ad stuck to long shots, and made light of the option’s contradictory and dispensable nature. Sure, folks in cold climates deserve convertibles too, but this Aircap thing just reminds me of cafe seating on Sunset Boulevard with heat lamps blaring on a 65-degree day. Silly wealthy folk… buy the coupe if you don’t like drafts.


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  • Bryanska Bryanska on May 28, 2010

    I drive a Miata every day. Even in the winter. On the cooler days, it's nice to have options to keep the neck warm. Any options to increase top-down comfort only increase the time the top stays down. I enjoy my windblocker. I'd also like heated seats, and my wife always enjoys her 12v heated passenger's blanket. When it's 45 degrees and sunny, I don a scarf, gloves & hat, with the heat turned on full blast. But that doesn't mean I'd surely welcome the Airscarf in my Miata.

  • Brian E Brian E on May 28, 2010

    How is this any sillier than a wind deflector on the sunroof?

    • Jmo Jmo on May 28, 2010

      Huh? The sunroof flap prevents the thwap, thwap, thwap presure changes when you have the sunroof open on the highway.

  • Carguy Carguy on May 28, 2010

    Given the E convertible's target demographic, it's the perfect feature - it won't mess up your bleach blond hair or blow off your toupee.

  • ZoomZoom ZoomZoom on May 29, 2010

    When I had my Miata in the 90's, my girlfriend of that time used to resist wearing a hat. She had these long tresses of blond hair which would be all blown around and tangled even when she wore it in a pony tail. She got so frustrated with the tangles but resisted wearing a hat for the longest time. One day I gave her one of mine, I think it may have been white or purple or something. I told her to put it on and poke her pony tail through that hole in the back. We drove for an hour or more. I think it was one of our long trips someplace. Afterward, her hair was not tangled. All I can say is "happy girlfriend, happy man."

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