At the Mercedes conference, the theme was all about electricity. They even had a Cirque-du-Soleil-style trapeze artists hanging from the roof, shooting electrical lighting rays onto the still-shrouded E-Class. Of course, with such a dangerous show, the brass had to warn off any observers with pacemakers, thus causing approximately 70 percent of the balding, graying, pot-bellied press corps to leave before the fun started.
