Mercedes-Benz Biome

The Mercedes-Benz Biome is an electric concept car that appears in the Asphalt series. It first appeared in Asphalt 8: Airborne as a Class B car.

Overview
The Mercedes-Benz Biome is an electric concept car created by Mercedes-Benz in 2010. This car is unique in that it is grown in a laboratory rather than at a factory line. It is also powered by BioNectar4534 fuel.

Asphalt 8: Airborne
Added in the Dubai update, the Mercedes-Benz Biome is one of the three electric cars by Mercedes-Benz, with the others being the SLS AMG Electric Drive and Silver Lightning.

The Biome starts with a rank of 1192 (same as the Jaguar F-Type R in Class C), has a maximum rank of 1486 (between the Ferrari 458 Italia's 1484 and Ferrari 599XX's 1490), and a final rank of 1590. With 57 points added using a Tuning Kit, the Mercedes-Benz Biome becomes one of the most powerful Class B cars in the game.

The Biome has the best handling stat in the game, even smoother than those of the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA, and Peugeot Onyx. In fact, the Biome can traverse through any track without drifting! However, it takes skill to do so, as this car is rather difficult to control for beginners. Albeit having very good handling, the Biome is highly susceptible to skidding or oversteering (e.g. Long sharp turns like in Sector 8, Uphill/ Downlill areas, etc.) and resulting to a crash or Wreck. It is preventable by counter-drifting (drifting at the opposite direction to where you are going to crash to) thus resulting in the need to drift. It would take fast reflexes to prevent a crash, but it is quite easy to master. Its top speed is low at first, but when maxed out, it becomes very high. Surprisingly, even though it has a very weak nitro boost, it is actually very nitro-efficient, thanks to its acceleration. Overall, the Biome is the best Class B car in the game, as it is always seen in the top 100 spots of the leaderboards of time-limited events that involve Class B cars. The best B class car is actually the Hussarya, but since not everyone is a rich boy, people use the Biome (available for credits), which takes a lot of skill to handle the skid issues.

At 450,000 Credits (same as the Ferrari FF from Class A), the Biome is one of the most expensive Class B cars in the game available for purchase by credits (and the most expensive Mercedes-Benz vehicle in the game, excluding the Premium car Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT Coupé Final Edition), behind the Mazda Furai's 500,000 Credits and the Rimac Concept One's 650,000 Credits. The Biome also costs 1,276,425 Credits to max out.

The Biome qualifies for its own race in Season 7, which is the final race of Season 7 itself. It also qualifies for the two Mercedes-Benz events in the game, both of which are also in Season 7 but appear earlier than the Biome's event.

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Collections

 * Glimpse into the Future - The Mercedes-Benz Biome is the most expensive vehicle in that collection (450,000 Credits to purchase + 1,276,425 Credits to max out).
 * Brave New World

Trivia

 * The Mercedes-Benz Biome, Rimac Concept One, and Renault DeZir are the only electric cars not part of the Ion Runners collection.
 * At the beginning of a race, if Mercedes-Benz Biomes are the only cars involved, the pre-race engine sounds will be very faint. However, Biomes still have the same in-game AI engine sound as all other electric cars.
 * As of the additions of the Renault DeZir and Rimac Concept One in the Winter update, the Mercedes-Benz Biome and Audi R8 e-tron are the only electric cars in the game with that do not share an engine sound with another electric car in the game (not counting the in-game AI engine sound).
 * In geography, biomes, often referred to as an ecosystem, are climatically and geographically defined as contiguous areas with similar climatic conditions on the Earth, including communities of plants, animals, or soil organisms.
 * Although powered by a specific fuel(BioNectar4534), Mercedes-Benz Biome is counted as a all-electric vehicle and can enter electric car races.
 * Strangely enough, part of the wheels of the Biome seems to be underground. This has never been corrected in the previous updates.