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Although the RideLust readership usually prefers blurbs about hot female celebrities and the equally hot cars they drive, I’ve exercised a little editorial oversight and included Gary Busy in our celebrity round-up. Although he probably looks better in a bikini than the present-day Brooke Shields, Busey and his retro Mercedes ride didn’t make the cut based on sex appeal but rather for possessing the unique distinction of “Most Likely To Rip Your Endocrine System Out Of Your Body.”

Spotted by paparazzi behind the wheel of his Mercedes-Benz 300D, we’d like to think Busey’s 30-year-old ride a subtle protest of Hollywood materialism, but in the interest of being realistic we’ll assume he’s probably living out of the back of it.

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Not scheduled to make its grand entrance until 2009, the much-anticipated Mercedes-Benz ML 450 2-Mode Hybrid is at the top of almost every upper class Greenie’s wish list. Co-designed with BMW and GM, the Mercedes ML 450 Hybrid will mark the German luxury symbol’s first foray into the eco-friendly world ["Thad, remind our driver he's picketing 'big oil' tomorrow, won't you dear?"]

A 3.5L V6 gasoline engine and twin 120kW electric motors boost the ML 450 Hybrid ICE’s [Internal Combustion Engine] standard performance from 279-hp to a powerful 321-hp, all while maintaining the stark quiet synonymous with both hybrid vehicles in general and Mercedes-Benz luxury [and providing optimum acoustics for listening to your “Das Engeri” audio book].
A mechanical blend of both a multi-speed automatic and continuously variable transmission enables the ML 450 Hybrid to ride smoother than silk while simultaneously making it a real bitch to fix [better hope that warranty doesn’t run out too soon]. An advanced regenerative braking system is powered by discretely placed, 288V battery packs and serve to further assist the electronically-variable transmission.

With an EPA estimate of 30mpg overall, and a reported carbon output of 185 g/km [we figured we didn’t need to convert those particular stats from their metric form since we’re fairly sure most people in North America have bought a gram of something in their life…]. Although mum’s the manufacturers’ word on suggested retail price, we expect somewhere in the range of its green luxury sibling’s, the Lexus 400H, 50k tag.

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