---
title: "Mercedes-Benz Design Boss Teases ‘Beautiful’ New Concept on Instagram"
description: "The \"big surprise\" of a show car is expected to debut at Pebble Beach this month."
date: "2017-08-04"
modified: "2017-08-04"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Tsui"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-tsui"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/13203/mercedes-benz-design-boss-teases-beautiful-new-concept-on-instagram"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Car Design"
  - "concept car"
  - "Concept Cars"
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
  - "Pebble Beach"
---

# Mercedes-Benz Design Boss Teases ‘Beautiful’ New Concept on Instagram

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/08/merc-concept-hero.jpg>)
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Get ready for a new, three-point-starred surprise sometime this summer.

Mercedes-Benz Chief Design Officer [Gorden Wagener took to Instagram to tease](<https://www.instagram.com/p/BXUpbC0A7an/?taken-by=gorden.wagener>) an upcoming show car set to debut this summer—most likely at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance sometime in August. In the short behind-the-scenes clip, Wagener is seen in the German automaker's Sindelfingen design studio working alongside a couple of [Advanced Design](<https://www.la.mercedes-benz.com/content/latina/mpc/mpc_latina_website/en/home_mpc/passengercars/home/world/design/advanced_design.html>) guys on a radical looking concept they describe as "another icon for the brand," "a big surprise," and "very beautiful."

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXUpbC0A7an

A gander at the sketches on the table shows an intricate-looking seven-spoke wheel seemingly taken off of the [Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6](<https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/design/ultimate-in-luxury-vision-mercedes-maybach-6/>) and a front grille design reminiscent of Merc's [Concept IAA](<https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/design/mercedes-benz-design/concept-cars/concept-iaa-intelligent-aerodynamic-automobile/>) from a couple of years ago. In case you forgot, that's the one that looks like an electric shaver with blades that somehow light up.

![message-editor%2F1501809581663-gettyimages-488190648.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1501809581663-gettyimages-488190648.jpg>)
*Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA, *Getty Images**

Before you ask, that long, red coupe in the background looks is also the [Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6](<https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/design/ultimate-in-luxury-vision-mercedes-maybach-6/>), the firm's big (literally and figuratively) Pebble Beach show car from last year.

![message-editor%2F1501809655214-gettyimages-611554088.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1501809655214-gettyimages-611554088.jpg>)
*Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, *Getty Images**

![message-editor%2F1501809648030-gettyimages-611554080.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1501809648030-gettyimages-611554080.jpg>)
*Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6, *Getty Images**

What do you think this could be? A precursor to the [Mercedes-AMG Project One hypercar](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/10742/mercedes-amg-project-ones-hypercar-is-going-to-be-absolutely-insane>), the [upcoming four-door GT,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/8086/new-mercedes-amg-gt-concept-is-a-four-door-beauty>) or something else entirely? Let us know in the comments below.

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

### Author social links  
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