iOS 7 beta hints at AirPlay for your car

A setting discovered by a developer poking around the beta for iOS 7 lists "iOS in the Car" using a Wi-Fi connection.

 

Apple's upcoming iOS in the Car feature apparently will work via AirPlay, so you won't have to physically hook up your device.
Scouring through the "Accessory Developer" settings menu in the iOS 7 beta version, developer Hamza Sood uncovered two options -- one called "iOS in the Car over USB" and another called "iOS in the Car over WiFi." Revealing his findings in a tweet, Sood's conclusion was that iOS in the Car will tap into Apple's AirPlay.
Unveiled in June at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, iOS in the Car will integrate your iPhone with your auto's onboard receiver or "infotainment" system. This integration would let you control your phone through your car's dashboard so that you can play music, display maps, and talk to Siri without having to fumble with the device.
Using a Wi-Fi connection via AirPlay would further mean that you can simply leave your iPhone in your pocket or purse and that it will automatically communicate with your car.
So far, Apple has signed up such automakers as Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Ferrari, Hyundai, Kia, and Infiniti to integrate more iOS features into their cars. At WWDC, Apple VP Eddy Cue said the iOS integration could kick off as soon as 2014, which means the feature itself may start to pop up in a few select 2015 models.

WORLD'S FASTEST MERCEDES SLR MCLAREN

 

Given that Mercedes and McLaren went their own separate ways a few years ago, finally winding Mercedes SLR McLaren production down in 2009, we thought for sure we'd see less terrible SLR tunes. Yet they keep coming.

This rough-looking, gaping-mouthed SLR took not one, nor two, but four different doctors to Frankenstein together.

Platinum Motorsport, RENNtech, MACarbon, and Exotics Boutique all put their tuning expertise together and popped out what they're calling the world's fastest SLR. They're also calling it the L4P SLR777.

These four partners conspired to increase the SLR's quickness, speed and look by adding the Mansory Renovatio bodykit (the first car to receive the kit outside of Mansory walls), upgrading a variety of hardware and customizing the interior.

Renntech left few corners untouched, boosting output to 770 horsepower and upgrading the five-speed transmission to handle it, upgrading the exhaust system, adding racing coilovers and shocks, increasing road clearance with a push-button hydraulic system, and upping stopping power with a performance brake system.

Platinum Motorsport was responsible for the bodykit install and "liquid white" paint job; MACarbon outfitted the interior with carbon fiber components; and Platinum finished the tune off with suede elements inside and 20-inch Agetro M140 Monoblock wheels outside.

As to the "world's fastest" claim, the L4P SLR777 runs the quarter mile in 10.29 seconds at 134 mph. That's well over a second faster than the 11.6 @ 125 mph that the stock version is capable of--and here's the proof: