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April / May 2015 The Texas Star Mercedes-Benz Club of America — North Texas Section North Texas Section Christmas Party - 12/20/2014 Section President, section events. Gayle presented Ron Seifert inspired another Section Leadership with the 2014 Member of entertainer, Suzi Checki, Brett Jurick, President the Year Award. to do a solo song, Santa Baby. Everyone enjoyed Open, Vice President We had some very both performances. Gayle Brewer, Secretary special entertainment Craig Halvorson, Treasurer besides the wonderful The night was sprinkled Thomas Lovell, Membership music played by our with the raffle of 20 favorite DJ, Pete. Our gifts. The evening was Brett Jurick, Newsletter, Webmaster The North Texas Section very own thespian, an event with great food, Ken Muller, Technical Chairman Christmas Party was Gayle Brewer, recited good entertainment, and held at Heritage Ranch Ron Seifert, Events Chairman the poem, A Cajun’s neat gifts from the raffle Golf and Country Club. It Thomas Charles Mako, Ex-Officio Night Before Christmas, and great music for was decorated in Maurice Nahas, Board Member using the Cajun dancing. Thanks to beautiful holiday cheer vernacular, and another Karen and Mic Gene Jurick, Regional Director and the food was poem by Ogden Nash Macmanus and all of Ramzi Baransi, Park Place delicious. Our President called the Boy Who their Section helpers Motorcars Liaison of MBCA, Terry Kiwala Laughed at Santa who made the evening Larry Reeg, Mercedes Benz of Pla- was a special guest, no Liaison Claus. They were both possible. Thanks to Gene Jurick our perfectly portrayed. Terry for making the trip Regional Director was Gayle is always a from Chicago to attend Inside this issue: also a part of our wonderful part of our our party. North Texas Section 1 event. Brett Jurick, our Christmas Party President’s Message / 3 Welcome Upcoming Events 4 Star Tech 2015 5 News/ AMG Petronas 6 World Car Awards / 7 Book Reviews New & Renewing Members 8 through March 2015 Membership Application 10 Our Sponsors: Mercedes-Benz of Plano 2 Pangea Natural Stone 6 Hagerty 6 Marshall Motors 8 Step By Step Travel 8 Park Place 11 1 The Texas Star 2 The Texas Star April / May 2015 The Texas Star President’s Message I hope you had a great holiday Please check out our new website at season and are off to a good www.ntx.mbca.org. This site is now hosted by the start in 2015. I am so happy for MBCA National Business Office and is intended to the weather warm up we have provide all of the information you are accustomed to seen recently. This year has from the North Texas Section plus everything that is started out great for The Club available nationally. With all of the great events and Mercedes Benz as well. coming up, I hope to see every one of our 950+ New cars like the GLA, the members at an upcoming event. Please say hi if you upcoming GLE Coupe and of are new or not a regular attender. We will do our very course the awesome new AMG best to make you feel at home. GT. There is lots to love. We have a great year planned for If we do not have your email address, you are missing the North Texas Section. We out on the majority of the communications from The strive to make your experience Club. Please go to www.mbca.org, log in and update enjoyable. WE have great times your info to stay in contact with all we have going on. coming up this year including driving, technical and social events. I think there is Brett Jurick something for everyone. President, North Texas Section Welcome! The North Texas Section cultural maven or social Check out where the of the Mercedes-Benz mingler, the MBCA North Club of America (MBCA) Texas Section had an competition is and where is dedicated to enhancing upcoming event for you. the ownership experience Check out the Events we are! Mercedes Benz is of the finest automobiles section to see what’s taking the luxury car in the world. We engage in coming up during the a variety of activities year, and for details on market by storm! throughout the year that events that are just over hopefully appeal to a the horizon. broad section of our Wonder How We Are Doing? membership. US LUXURY BRAND SALES Currently our membership Jan/Feb/March Brand totals over 940 members 2015 who are committed to Mercedes-Benz 83,715 furthering their experience BMW 78,492 and enjoyment of their Lexus 77,180 cars. Whether you’re a gear head, performance Cadillac 37,175 driver, rally enthusiast, Audi 40,098 Lincoln 21,478 3 The Texas Star April / May 2015 The Texas Star Upcoming Events —Here’s what’s happening! Tenth Annual Mercedes Benz Owners Get Together – May 23, 2015 - Centerville, TX The Tenth Annual Texas Caravans will leave from Mercedes-Benz Owners' Get Houston, DFW, and the Together will be held Austin area on the morning Saturday, May 23, 2015 in of the event. For more info, Centerville, TX. This event is please contact Joseph open to all who wish to Middleton at 713-487-8197, come, whether you're a or texasbenzmeet13 MBCA member, or not. @gmail.com. Join us for a delicious BBQ North Texas Section signups Directions: lunch at Woody's - Please e-mail Ron Seifert Smokehouse on the at [email protected] From DFW Metroplex northbound side of I-45, by May 20th if you are going Love's Truck Stop followed by a show and to attend. 2500 S I-45 (Exit 272, Fulghum Rd. Exit) shine at Fort Boggy State Hutchins, TX 75141 Park, just 4 miles south of Assemble at 9:45am, depart at 10:15am Centerville. Mercedes Benz USA is moving to Atlanta! location in Sandy Springs is great for the city, metro Atlanta and for the entire state of Georgia," said Governor Deal. "I want to thank Mercedes-Benz USA and its leadership team for its decision to call Georgia home." As part of the relocation, the automaker plans to hire hundreds of new employees from the Atlanta area. MBUSA will continue to maintain several operational business units in both MBUSA, which is currently 285, the approximately 12- Montvale and Robbinsville, New Jersey. headquartered in Montvale, acre parcel rests in one of Additional details on the new Sandy Springs New Jersey, will construct a Atlanta's largest and most facility, as well as MBUSA's Atlanta recruiting new, state-of-the-art sought-after commercial efforts, will be released in the coming weeks. headquarters facility on a districts, offering numerous greenfield site located at the hotel, retail and restaurant corner of Abernathy and options with easy access to Barfield roads in Sandy public transit and Springs, expected to be Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta completed in early 2018. International Airport. Set near the intersection of "Mercedes-Benz USA's Georgia 400 and Interstate planned headquarters 4 The Texas Star April / May 2015 The Texas Star Star Tech 2015 – MBCA’s Premier Event for 2015 Welcome to StarTech 2015! Our wonderful event will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio June 12-14. We look forward to having a fun and informative National Event with as many of our members as possible. The weekend's events will be centered around our great host hotel, The DoubleTree by Hilton, Cincinnati Airport. Whether you fly in or drive, this hotel is very easy to find, has a secure parking lot, and will be the location for the tech sessions and Saturday Night Soiree. StarTech 2015 Overall Schedule Friday • 2PM- Vendors register and start setting up for the Show and Shine. • 3PM- StarTech 2015 kick-off with a Show and Shine car show in the hotel parking lot. Registration check-in opens. • 7PM- Welcome Party Sponsored by MBUSA at the Mercedes Benz Diamond Club at Great American Ball park. Saturday • 9AM- Technical Session Block 1; check-in for morning off-site events; vendor area opens. • 12PM- 2-hour lunch break. • 2PM- Technical Session Block 2; check-in for afternoon off-site events. • 6PM- Ladies of Mercedes event (still in the works!) • 7PM- Saturday Night Soiree Sunday • 9AM- Onsite events start for those not going to the Ault Park Concours d’Elegance • 10AM- Ault Park Concours d’Elegance. (Separate tickets must be purchased for this event) For hotel information: Click Here To Register:Click Here To see our speaker lineup: Click Here 5 The Texas Star April / May 2015 The Texas Star Mercedes Takes Early Luxury Lead, Resurgent Lexus Jumps to No. 2 Mercedes-Benz opened percent gain from the year - “...a best-ever January is the perfect 2015 with a record January earlier period. to take an early lead in the "On the heels of record way to kick of the New Year.” - U.S. luxury race, but a sales in 2014, a best-ever Stephen Cannon, CEO, surging Lexus is nipping at January is the perfect way Mercedes-Benz USA its heels. to kick off the New Year," said Stephen Cannon, CEO 2014’s luxury champ, BMW, of Mercedes-Benz USA, in finds itself in third place a statement. "Our product after the first month. offensive continues in 2015 Mercedes sales rose 8.9 with the launch of the percent to 24,619 vehicles. Mercedes-Maybach S600, a The brand’s biggest gainer fully redesigned light truck among models that sold at lineup and the hero of our least 1,000 units was the Super Bowl spot this year, GL class, which had a 38 the Mercedes-AMG GT S.