Mercedes-Benz has a longstanding relationship with the Vatican, having provided transportation for Popes going back 80 years, and now the company has unveiled its latest holy ride. The new Popemobile, as the Pope’s public-appearance car/rolling display case has come to be known, is again based on Benz’s M-class, but sees a number of Pope-duty-specific upgrades relative to the outgoing model. The one and only Dr. Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board at Daimler AG, presented the Pope with his new rolling digs today.
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The new M-class Popemobile gets a revised holy, er, fishbowl on the back for Pope Benedict XVI to occupy. More glass area, greater interior illumination, and more standing height top the list of Pope dome tweaks. Benz also lowered the dome’s roof slightly, which it says will make the Popemobile easier to load into airplanes. (The vehicle travels with the Pope pretty much anywhere he goes.) Inside the dome, Benz again fitted a throne—yes, an actual throne—that’s embroidered with the coat of arms of the Holy Father. (And you thought the massaging seats in your S-class were pretty neat.) Mercedes says the new Popemobile could first be pressed into duty tomorrow, at the Catholic Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception.
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