Introducing...The $200K Nick Saban Signature Series Mercedes Soccer Mom Van
Alabama - The Crimson Tide is rolling in style this season. University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban has collaborated with the Mercedes-Benz of Birmingham dealership and specialty vehicle manufacturer McSweeney Designs to create the Nick Saban Signature Series Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
The nine-passenger luxury van is decked out with three TVs, high-tech audio and video systems and a cooler. Other premium touches include hardwood flooring, high-grain leather and massage chairs.
Priced at $200,000, the new vehicle was designed with tailgating, corporate entertaining and family travel in mind. It’s a limited edition series, with 15 to be produced for the 2015-2016 college football season.
Saban told guests he didn’t design the vehicle; he left that up to the experts. But he wanted to make sure it set a benchmark of excellence.
“There’s a standard that we want to do things to,” he said. “After looking at what they produced, I’m extremely pleased and proud and happy.”
Saban’s son, Nicholas, the AMG specialist at the dealership, said his dad played a hands-on role in the process, reviewing color palettes, materials and features of the new Sprinter. The coach put his stamp on the vehicle, figuratively and literally, as his signature is stitched into each headrest.
“We wanted it to be something that was truly exclusive,” Nicholas Saban said.
Jeffrey Hunter, who oversees McSweeney Designs, said the new Sprinter project has been in the works since early this year.
“No expense was spared,” he said. “It’s meant to be in keeping with the exceptional nature of the Mercedes-Benz brand, the Nick Saban brand and the McSweeney Designs brand.”
Rod McSweeney, founder and chairman of McSweeney Holdings, said he was thrilled for his company to participate in the project.
“We’re especially tickled because we’re huge University of Alabama fans,” he said.
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I guess dumping on rival college football coaches and 18-20 year old athletes every year wasn’t enough. Nick Saban had to take a shit on your mom’s face as well. Hey kiddies how was your ride to soccer practice today in your Nissan Quest? Get dropped off with all your little friends in a pretty sweet Honda Odyssey? Hahaha. Poor people shit times infinity. Check out Saban’s whip.
Built on a Mercedes-Benz 3500 Sprinter chassis, the vehicle has conference-style seating for up to seven people in the mid cabin and two in the cockpit. There are recliner-styled heated and air-cooled seats with integrated power massage.
The audio and video entertainment systems include two 40-inch LED TVs, as well as a Samsung 4K UHD 48-inch curved LED TV media system located at the rear of the vehicle.
Among the other features are an audiophile quality home theater processor and receiver, mobile DirecTV satellite system and LED accent lighting throughout the cabin.
How does he even do it? How does he mastermind a college football dynasty then design luxury soccer mom minivans in his spare time?
And let me guess, ohhhh like recruits care about this, all they’re interested in are super fast two door coupes where they can drop the top and cruise around with the wind whipping in their hair. Umm you know how many strippers you can fit in this thing? Know how many college groupies can pile in to that cabin? Think about it.
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There are fucking massage chairs.
#RollDamnTide
h/t Clay Travis