1
Aug
If at first you don’t succeed, manufacture a bunch of model variants and
hope public buy them. Well, that sounds good and all but, for Mercedes
and their SLR supercar, it hasn’t really done much to get volume where it needs to be.
You remember SLR? The thoroughly exotic supercar, developed …
22
Jul
Mercedes plans to offer a range of small displacement, turbo-charged
engine offerings by 2010 as a short-term solution for better fuel
economy, reports Automotive News Europe. rugged CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy]
standards and increasingly strict emissions controls in North America
a…
28
Mar
Mercedes-Benz just presented to Europe its new A-class three- and five-door hatchbacks, with revised front- and rear-end styling and a sharper, more upscale interior. Unfortunately, like the old A-class, it’s not headed to America.
From a fuel-efficiency standpoint, the big news is the arrival of…
17
Mar
In the biggest clean-diesel push by a European automaker yet, Mercedes-Benz is set to roll out three Bluetec sport-utility vehicles, joining the E320 Bluetec sedan in showrooms. The 2009 GL320, ML320, and R320 Bluetec models (pictured here, left to right), supplant the older-tech CDI diesel models i…
2
Mar
There’s a decent chance your average hybrid owner wouldn’t know the difference amidst a lithium-ion and nickel-metal hydride battery whether their life depended on it, but we know you — dear reader — are not one of those “average” joes / janes. That being the case, you may be interested to kno…
28
Feb
considering even the most fuel-efficient powertrain is limited by the mass and the aerodynamic efficiency of the vehicle it’s moving, Mercedes-Benz created the C-class BlueEfficiency. Debuting at the Geneva Show and headed for European showrooms in the spring, that trio of highly optimized sedans in…
18
Feb
We’ve heard the marketing babble, and pondered the possibilities of a hands-free drive to work, but do those radar-based collision prevention technologies actually work? The British Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre Thatcham seems to think so. BMIRPCT took a expanded tough look at Volvo Cit…
11
Feb
It loses its supercharger, yet picks up more ponies in ability for a total of amoung 518 and 525 hp. The Mercedes Benz SL63 AMG will be be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show and will go on sale sometime in the spring of 2009. Mercedes Benz hasn’t released official word about the car, though the com…
30
Jan
Spy shots of the forthcoming Mercedes SL Black supercar have been kicking around the Net since final September. But England’s “Car Magazine Online” finally got the story. The vehicle goes on sale that fall. It was developed with help from HWA of DTM/German Touring
Car Championship fame. Only 400 un…
25
Jan
Rumors that AMG, the in-house high-performance division of Mercedes Benz, will offer a diesel have been circulating for months, and they’re been renewed by a report in Auto Express that AMG “is closer than ever” to doing it.
The British magazine doesn’t have any more details than that, but it’s…
2
Jan
Car accidents inspiring bouts of nationalism aren’t all that new. However, this could be the shakiest case of it that we’ve heard of recently. Wang Zhan, the Chinese owner of a Mercedes S350, rear-ended a DongFeng van. In spite of the rather severe damage done to the car, the airbags didn’t depl…
13
Dec
Mercedes-Benz has already developed a system to help folks that have trouble braking, and it now looks like it’s doing the same for those that have a tendency to fall asleep at the wheel. That will apparently come in the scheme of the automaker’s “Attention Assist” system, which is apparently …
9
Nov
Formula One teams have long tried to glean insight into what their competition is doing, but this year’s spying scandals have exploded into all-out espionage. After the whole Stepneygate/Ferrari vs. McLaren thing, we thought that was the last we’d hear of spying until at least next year. But…
5
Oct
Our friends over at the Kicking Tires blog decided to take a gander at how well a few of the new 2008 models did their first month on the market, and it turns out really, really well. Though automakers don’t break down what percentage of a particular car’s monthly sales were of the 2007 or 2008 …
