NEW YORK -- The only thing that's cooler than a luxury sports car you can control through your phone is one with "gullwing" doors and a built-in speaker.
Unveiled at the 2013 Toy Fair and available this fall from Silverlit, the same company that brought you the iPhone-controlled Porsche 911 Carrera, this remote-control Mercedes Benz SLS AMG works pretty much the way the Porsche did. It syncs up via bluetooth with a free, iOS-based app that gives you fine control over speed, direction and acceleration.
The added ingredients are the dual gullwing doors (they open the same way a DeLorean's do) that you can open and close via the remote control and the ability to stream your iPhone or iPod iTunes music library direct to a large speaker in the back of the tiny vehicle (the sound is pretty loud, though, in our limited experience, we couldn't discern much about the quality). Once you start playing music through the rear-windshield-sized speaker, however, you can't drive the car.
At $129.99, it's considerably more expensive than Silverlit's $79.99 Porsche. As for an actual Mercedes Benz SLS AMG? It lists for almost $200K. So if you have your heart set on a gullwing Benz, we suggest you start small -- very small.
Check out the photos and video for a quick demonstration.