Mercedes Benz launched a new Flex powered website for their USA page. I never visited the old site, but the new site looks great, and has a nice application to build your own Benz.

Most car manufacturers use Flash for their website. A quick look shows Toyota, Honda, Ford, Mazda, GM, and VW (thanks Michael Chaize!) are all using Flash on their sites.

Volkswagen UK launched a new website today that was written with Adobe Flex. Previously there was a used Volkswagen site written in Flex - today the official Volkswagen site in the UK has launched, and its written with Flex.

The new site includes 3-d models of the cars, and like the Harley Davidson configurator each option that you add to the car that changes the car results in an updated image of the car.

From a technical perspective, the site also supports deep linking support, allowing people to link directly to certain aspects of the site, like this link to configure a new Jetta.

The site was built by the talented team at Tribal DDB and is definitely worth taking a look at.

Via Digital Arts

The new Scion website has launched and provides a great example of what's possible with Flex when you don't use the default theme. Much like other sites, like the Tour of California site or Comcast's Fan site, you can't tell that the site was built using Flex. The developers have done a great job of modifying the look and feel of the application to be completely unique.

Much like other car sites, the Scion site provides an overview of all the models available, a section for car owners, and a section for Scion fans. The site also includes a number of multimedia features, including video throughout the site, and music that plays throughout your visit.

Flash technology seems to be almost required for a car website. Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Acura, and Lexus all use Flash on their websites. Curriously, GM is not using Flash on their web page.