Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City Announces the Arrival of the all new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK

KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwire - 06/20/11) - Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City announced the arrival of the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/class/class-SLK).

The all-new SLK-Class leads boldly into a new era. From winning the first auto race to pacing Formula One, the course of sports-car history has long been guided by the Three-Pointed Star. Its iconic grille and signature power hardtop make the 2012 SLK-Class a rich racing heritage of Mercedes-Benz sports cars. Leading with an aggressive new design, the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class draws on its racing pedigree to redefine the roadster experience. The result is an exhilarating vehicle engineered for escaping the everyday with the top down and the throttle open (http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/gallery/class-SLK).

A new-generation engine delivers more power, richer torque, cleaner emissions and greater efficiency. Its new 3.5L V-6, SLK350 is quick from 0 to 60, advanced rapid-multispark ignition fires up to four times in a millisecond and new high-pressure Direct Injection micro-manages the fuel spray as fast as 0.1 millisecond. Additionally, it is the world's first 7-speed automatic transmission re-engineered for performance that's more responsive and more efficient.

Paddle shifters let you control gear changes without taking your hand from the 3-spoke steering wheel. The lowered, sport-tuned 4-wheel multilink suspension of the SLK provides the ideal balance of sharp handling, surefooted control and smooth comfort. Speed-sensing power steering with our innovative Direct-steer system offers quicker cornering response, crisper on-center feel and easier low-speed maneuvers.

Soave Enterprises, a Detroit-based holding company, entered automotive retailing 15 years ago. Soave Automotive Group has grown to a dozen franchises in Kansas and Missouri. From the luxury brands of Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover, Saab, Maserati, Porsche, smart and a Pre-Owned department, featuring those and other luxury brands retailed by Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City, which offers Mercedes-Benz, Sprinter, smart and Airstream motor homes. This group's talented employees offer the one thing all customers deserve and expect: excellent customer service (http://www.aristocratmotors.com and http://www.mb-kc.com).

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Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City Announces Partnership with The Kansas City Art Institute for The Art of the Car Concours

Aristocrat Motors Announces Partnership With Kansas City Art Institute in Art of the Car Concours

Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City are collaborating with the KCAI for The Fifth Annual Art of the Car Concours®. The event is a benefit for the KCAI scholarship fund and will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 26 on the KCAI campus. The show will feature more than 180 vintage, classic and special-interest vehicles, including cars, trucks, racing cars and vintage motorcycles belonging to collectors from eight states. Vehicles from Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma will be on view.

Event day parking will be available on the streets surrounding campus as well as in the underground parking garage at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Garage parking is $5 and the entrance is located at 45th and Oak Street.

This event is growing in popularity and stature among vintage and classic collectors. The Concours is unique for its size and scale in having no formal judging and no classes of vehicles. The intention is to provide a wide range of very high-quality, original, vintage vehicles in an eclectic, informal setting, without the pressure of traditional Concours events.

More information including ticket purchasing can be viewed at www.artofthecarconcours.com.
Soave Enterprises, a Detroit-based holding company, entered automotive retailing 15 years ago. Soave Automotive Group has grown to a dozen franchises in Kansas and Missouri. From the luxury brands of Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover, Saab, Maserati, Porsche, smart and a Pre-Owned department, featuring those and other luxury brands retailed by Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City, which offers Mercedes-Benz, Sprinter, smart and Airstream motor homes. This group's talented employees offer the one thing all customers deserve and expect: excellent customer service (http://www.aristocratmotors.com and http://www.mb-kc.com).

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Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City Announces the Arrival of the all new 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS

KANSAS CITY, MO — Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City announced the arrival of the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class Coupe today (http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/gallery/class-CLS). 

According to the official Mercedes-Benz website, the 2012 CLS-Class Coupe has the world's first 7-speed automatic transmission, re-engineered for smoother, more efficient and more responsive performance. An electronic selector and paddle shifters, allow complete control of gear changes without taking a hand from the 3-spoke steering wheel. Its multi-talented, multi-mode AIRMATIC suspension turns pressurized air into calm composure on any road. AIRMATIC not only expertly balances sharp handling reflexes with a relaxing ride, it also lowers the car at higher speeds to cut drag and enhance stability. The new electromechanical power steering with Direct-steer offers quicker cornering response, crisper on-center feel and easier low-speed maneuvers.

The CLS-Class Coupe has the world's first all-LED active headlamps, which generate light that's even closer to natural daylight than the standard Bi-Xenon headlamps. Its active Curve Illumination and Adaptive Highbeam Assist continuously vary the beam pattern of the LED headlamps to help maximize illumination of corners and straight-aways (http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/gallery/class-CLS#/class-CLS/section-2/tout-2/type-img).

Like every Mercedes-Benz coupe, it's sleek, poised and rakish. Like no car before it, the CLS-Class welcomes its four passengers through four inviting doors. Its frameless door glass and a tautly arched roofline, define a shape that slices through the air as deftly as its air-suspended chassis carves through corners.
The COMAND system makes advanced technology easy to enjoy with a convenient central controller and a high-resolution LCD screen. A 610-watt harman/kardon surround sound system delivers SiriusXM Satellite Radio, HD Radio™ stations or music via iPod, new Bluetooth audio streaming. The Navigation Programming features a 40GB hard drive, Zagat® Survey ratings and live SiriusXM Traffic.

Soave Enterprises, a Detroit-based holding company, entered automotive retailing 15 years ago. Soave Automotive Group has grown to a dozen franchises in Kansas and Missouri. From the luxury brands of Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover, Saab, Maserati, Porsche, smart and a Pre-Owned department, featuring those and other luxury brands retailed by Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City, which offers Mercedes-Benz, Sprinter, smart and Airstream motor homes. This group's talented employees offer the one thing all customers deserve and expect: excellent customer service (http://www.aristocratmotors.com and http://www.mb-kc.com).

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Art of the Car Concours

We believe more than most that automobiles are works of art. Not just any works of art, but a daily expression of our personality that we venture out into the world with every day. In tune with that belief, we are proud to be working with The Kansas City Art Institute at the 5^th Annual Art of the Car Concours.

The Fifth Annual Art of the Car Concours® will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 26 on the KCAI campus. The show will feature more than 180 vintage, classic and special-interest vehicles, including cars, trucks, racing cars and vintage motorcycles belonging to collectors from eight states. Vehicles from Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma will be on view.

Event day parking will be available on the streets surrounding campus as well as in the underground parking garage at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Garage parking is $5 and the entrance is located at 45th and Oak streets.

This event, a benefit for the KCAI scholarship fund, is growing in popularity and stature among vintage and classic collectors. The Concours is unique for its size and scale in having no formal judging and no classes of vehicles. The intention is to provide a wide range of very high-quality, original, vintage vehicles in an eclectic, informal setting, without the pressure of traditional Concours events.

More information including ticket purchasing can be viewed at www.artofthecarconcours.com .
We look forward to seeing you there!

Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City: Employee Social Media Training

Today it is hard to get around Social Media. It seems that every advertisement on TV or in Print has those little F’s and T’s written all over them. Since most companies seem to be moving into the social realm (including us) it becomes more important than ever to educate our employees on social media related issues.

That is why we at Aristocrat Motors have committed ourselves to making sure our employees are properly trained and educated on how to use social media in a safe and effective way.

By holding regular training sessions, we have highlighted how to setup a Facebook or Twitter account, managing your security settings to ensure employee privacy, and how to protect yourself from online identity fraud.

We hope that these training solutions ensure that our staff is as well informed and up to date as possible. We know that by having a well trained and educated staff, we can continue to provide the best experience possible to our customers.

We can be visited on the web at www.Facebook.com/MercedesBenzofKansasCity , www.Twitter.com/MercedesKC, or www.MB-KC.com. 

Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City is Building A New Website

Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City is proud to announce that it is beginning a new website partnership with DealerFire, a custom dealership website design firm. We believe that our websites should provide the same superior experience online that we provide offline, so we have begun building a set of new, modern, and more efficient virtual storefronts that will be able to do more than ever before.

As we are in the design process, we encourage our customers to visit our current website (www.MB-KC.com) and tell us what they would like to see added, removed, or kept as the new sites begin developing. 

We will provide updates as the build goes on, but expect our new website to be live sometime in mid-July. As always, everything we do is focused on the customer experience.

Please contact us at 913.677.3300 or mbksocialmedia@soaveauto.com .

Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City is Sponsoring The Great Midwest Balloon Fest

Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City is proud to announce our partnership with the Great Midwest Balloon Fest. From July 8^th through 10^th, the skies over South Johnson County will be alive with hundreds of hot air balloons, parachute drops, and aerial acrobatics.

In addition to these high flying masterpieces…BACK ON THE GROUND…we will be offering you the chance to get aquainted with the entire Mercedes-Benz lineup by driving them! As well as the opportunity to win a free Balloon flight by visiting us at our display and entering.

To get your tickets to the Great Midwest Balloon Fest, as well as find out more information, please visit http://www.greatmidwestballoonfest.org/ .  

We look forward to seeing you there!

Art of the Car Concours Featured on The Kansas City Star Website

Art of the Car Concours: Featured in The Kansas City Star

All of us at Aristocrat Motors and Mercedes Benz of Kansas City are proud to be the title sponsors for the 2011 Art of the Car Concours. This fantastic display of classic automobiles benefits the scholarship fund for The Kansas City Art Institute. Recently we were mentioned in The Kansas City Star as the title sponsor:

Kansas City Art Institute to host Fifth Annual Art of the Car Concours on June 26

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (May 31, 2011) - The fifth annual Art of the Car Concours®, featuring nearly 200 vintage, classic and special-interest vehicles, including cars, trucks, racing cars and vintage motorcycles belonging to collectors from eight states, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 26 on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick Blvd. Vehicles from Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma will be on view.

“This event, a benefit for the KCAI scholarship fund, has begun to develop a national reputation,” said Marshall Miller, a Kansas City attorney and vintage car aficionado who founded and serves as chairman of the event. “The Concours is unique for its size and scale in having no formal judging and no classes of vehicles. The intention is to provide a wide range of very high-quality, original, vintage vehicles in an eclectic, informal setting, without the pressure of traditional Concours events.”

Advance tickets may be purchased online for $12 at www.artofthecarconcours.com. The day of the event, tickets may be purchased for $15 at the gate. Children 10 years old and under, as well as active duty military (with identification), will be admitted free. In addition, early-bird tickets are available online and at the gate for anyone who would like to arrive between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. to see or document vintage cars arriving for the event. Those tickets cost $17 when purchased online and $20 at the gate. Anyone who purchases a $12 ticket online but who then comes early to the event may pay another $5 to enter the campus prior to 10 a.m. Proceeds from sponsorships and ticket sales will benefit KCAI’s scholarship fund.

Featured vehicles this year include a 1929 Duesenberg, a 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom, a 1936 Stout Scarab and a 1956 Nash Rambler.

“The 1929 Duesenberg Model J-129 Dual Cowl Phaeton, owned by John Groendyke of Enid, Okla., has been shown at Pebble Beach, Meadow Brook and Amelia Island,” Miller said, citing three of the nation’s premier concours venues. “The 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom II Cabriolet de Ville, owned by Lawrence Smith of Wichita, Kan., has never before been shown in public and has a special French custom body. The 1936 Stout Scarab, owned by Dick Taylor of Lumberton, N.C., is a Grand National Award-winner that has been shown at Amelia Island, as has the 1956 Nash Rambler Palm Beach Coupe, owned by Scott Morris of Kearney, Neb. The Nash Rambler also was the Pininfarina 1956 Paris Show car. The upcoming Concours in Kansas City will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view these very special cars.”

One of the most popular activities at the Concours is voting for “People’s Choice” awards. Ballots will be distributed to all who attend the event, and they will be invited to vote for their favorite cars. After the votes are counted, trophies created by a KCAI alumna will be presented to the top five vote-getters. Corporate sponsors, the president of KCAI and the chairman of the Concours also will be presenting trophies to the owners of special vehicles chosen as the best in categories that range from “best color” to “car we’d most like to insure.”

“In five years the Concours has grown to the largest in the Midwest for high-quality original vehicles of a wide variety,” Miller said. “There is no similar event in Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis or Dallas. As a result, exhibitors, sponsors and visitors from around the country will be traveling to Kansas City for the Concours. This year we have many new vehicles that will delight our guests. We especially encourage multi-generations of families to attend, as that is how I started my interest.”

Miller said that he anticipates that from 180 to 200 vehicles, trucks and vintage motorcycles will be on display. Many of the local vehicles are in private collections and have not been publicly displayed. Amelia Island and Pebble Beach Concours winners also will be displayed.

The event has attracted both local and national sponsors. The Mercedes-Benz Dealerships of Kansas City, Aristocrat Motors/Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City are the presenting sponsors. Additional sponsors include Baron Automotive; The Branson Car Auction; Curves Ahead Transport; Grass Pad; Hagerty Insurance Agency Ltd.; Hyman Ltd.; Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A.; McPherson College; and Meguiar’s Inc. Community partners include DeLaSalle Education Center, McPherson College and Tivol.

The Kansas City Art Institute is a private, independent, four-year college of art and design, awarding the bachelor of fine arts degree with majors in animation, art history, ceramics, digital filmmaking, digital media, fiber, graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and studio art with an emphasis on creative writing. The college also offers evening, weekend and summer classes in art, design, multimedia studies and desktop publishing for children, youth and adults. Founded in 1885, KCAI is Kansas City's oldest arts organization. More information about the Art of the Car Concours is available at www.artofthecarconcours.com.

We hope to see you at this year’s Art of the Car Concours!