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Article: Miami nice: The Ocean Drive is handmade excellence from Mercedes-Benz.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2007
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Byline: Steven Cole Smith
Jun. 23--MIAMI BEACH
-See that photo to the left? That's me driving the Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive, on Ocean Drive, in Miami Beach. My passenger is Steffen Koehl, a Mercedes designer largely responsible for the Ocean Drive.
What you do not see in the photo is the police escort, lights flashing and siren chirping in front of me, or three or four more cars tailing me, filled with Germans who leap from their seats when I stop to tend to the car.
This is, after all, the only Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive, assembled by hand after engineers and designers took a brand-new Mercedes S600 long-wheelbase sedan and stripped ...