FRANKFURT, Germany -- No matter how many convention center floors I trod, I still get a kick out of the extravagant and wacky theatrics corporations assemble to tout there products.

And this at the beginning of the Mercedes-Benz press conference at the Frankfurt Auto Show clearly gets to join the hall of fame. It was like a combination of Cirque du Soleil and that old ride at Disneyland where you went into a microscope that Orson Welles narrated set to trance music. Enjoy.