Mercedes-Benz News

I don’t plan on going broke, put that on my Maybach, Cuz I’m in it to win now, can’t take that Listen to my Maybach music, to my Maybach music Mercedes-Benz’s bold experiment in luxury finally comes to an end next year in a whimpering failure, which is curious for the 126-year ...    Read more

Is this the next-gen Mercedes-Benz GL SUV? This dressed-up Mercedes-Benz SUV has been caught sporting camouflage a few times over the past couple months, but this time is slightly different. These shots snapped by our spy photographer show the Mercedes-Benz SUV testing on a California road with much less camouflage ...    Read more

Unlike BMW and its M Sports Division, rival German super tuner, AMG, has no plans to stuff its Mercedes-Benz sourced cars with diesel engines. With the rising cost of gasoline and the American carpocalyptic CAFE legislation requiring 54.5 mpg fuel economy by 2025, a death-knell to many large, high ...    Read more

Despite the nuisance, seat-belts have been a life-saver for millions of motorists since legislation was first enacted in 1961. Yet, even with numerous campaigns and federal laws, some people still forego the belt. Daimler is hoping to convert those who think a seat-belt is a hindrance by developing an advanced ...    Read more

Many auto makers are adding a diesel engine option to its lineup and apparently the one percent deserves a diesel alternative too. Maserati will be offering a smaller Quattroporte (nicknamed the "Maseratina" for the time being) powered by a diesel engine responsible for over 300 horsepower. A V-6 gasoline engine ...    Read more

Porsche is the golden boy of the automotive world: every manufacturer worth its salt has tried to dethrone it with a “Porsche Killer” at one time or another, with varying degrees of success (Nissan GTR owners have this phrase driven into their cerebellums ad nauseum). Why can’t we all just ...    Read more

In 1951, Mercedes-Benz made history when it pioneered the idea of crumple zones. Volvo was the first company to make seat belts standard across all its vehicles. GM and Ford both dabbled with airbags in the 1970s, while Cadillac's traction control system on the 1979 Eldorado was a noble, if ...    Read more

With all the recent economic forecasts and jobs reports, you'd think it was doom and gloom out there, (and it may be), but you'll only get a half-hearted nod of sympathy from our German friends. These are good times in the auto industry, one that's recovering ahead of the general ...    Read more

Keeping in tradition with stuffing ludicrous engines into everything short of a Braunschweig-class corvette, Mercedes-Benz has a price to go with the ML63 AMG’s twin-turbocharged, 5.5-liter V-8 engine: $95,865. With a 0-60 time of 4.7 seconds, that equates to $20,396 per second. How fast do you want to go? For ...    Read more

A wise man once said "if you ain't first, you're last." Apparently Daimler is taking that advice to heart as it plans to double its output of Mercedes-Benz vehicles by 2020. The added effort has been spurred by fellow German automaker BMW regularly finishing ahead of Mercedes-Benz, with the exception ...    Read more

While the automotive press and public has been enamored by electric vehicles and hybrids, ze boys of Bavaria have been quietly expanding their diesel offerings. Mercedes-Benz is the latest to add to its oil burners, offering a diesel engine model for its upcoming 2013 Mercedes GLK mid-sized crossover. The diesel ...    Read more

According to a Reuters report, Bentley is seizing the opportunity to go after former celebrities associated with the-soon-to-be -defunct Maybach brand, including rapper Jay-Z, actor Samuel L. Jackson, and Spanish King Juan Carlos. Maybach has catapulted to epitomize ...    Read more

Over the past few days, we've covered touchscreens, voice commands, head-up displays, applications, smartphone integration, and various other technologies featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But what does much of it come down to? The cloud. Technology in cars is finally at a point where it needs ...    Read more

This year, plenty of automakers pulled their full weight into the Consumer Electronics Show. But there were plenty of little guys out there, too, that made us ask "Why didn't someone else think of that sooner?" Whether big or small, there were a lot of announcements at the show—some bigger than ...    Read more

Like kiwis in the 1980s, and the sun-dried tomatoes of the 90s, every decade seems to be stamped with an indelible food trend (we won't even mention tuna tartar or food trucks). This holds true in the automotive world too; like the big box SUVs of the early and mid ...    Read more

Big up Yaself! Mercedes-Benz’s “Project-X” party van could only appeal to the sort of people who thought Ali G’s “Indahouse” was a documentary. The object in question above once started life as a Vito 122CDI Sport-X Dualiner diesel, a name whose badge stretches across both rear doors, before Pioneer Electronics ...    Read more

Audi has announced it will be adding more models to quell the U.S. market's demands for more sedans and SUVs. This will also help Audi in its chase to reel in the competition and fellow German auto makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz, who have been kings of the figurative hill in ...    Read more

Famed truck maker Mercedes-Benz has announced that it has built its two-millionth SUV, which includes its G-Class, M-Class, R-Class, GL-Class and GLK-Class models. Ever since the G-Class was launched 30 years ago, the truck company has been building a stable of large, capable SUVs in its lineup—including the newest M-Class, ...    Read more

Most Americans look to the upcoming new year with revelry, cautious optimism, or trepidation (especially if you believe in those pesky Mayan predictions and subsequent bad movie). One group, the United Auto Workers, though, sees 2012 as a year of survival. The UAW is in a tough situation. One of the ...    Read more

Even the most closeted, news-shunning American knows that the rest of the world sees us differently than we see ourselves. Why is a different story, but for the record, the European and Asian automakers have had, for several decades, a separate, and sometimes less exciting American car lineup. The latest ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety announced 115 recipients of its Top Safety Pick award. With 18 new vehicles joining the list for 2012, it’s especially surprising that 10 of them happen to be Honda models that have all been on sale for years now, showing the brand’s willingness to ...    Read more

When over-eager adolescent males prematurely released photo of LiLo's underwhelming Playboy shots onto the Internet, Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner felt forced to release the magazine early as well. Well, a certain publication *cough*Autocar*cough* decided to jump the gun and release details on the all-new 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL. Why Autocar felt ...    Read more

Shots of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL convertible recently surfaced across the pond in the Netherlands, aka Holland for the atlas-inept. The images, reports Autoblog.nl, seem to come from a sales brochure for the new convertible. Unlike Lexus, whose ...    Read more

In Europe, having smaller and more efficient gas and diesel engines in an automaker’s lineup is imperative, as fuel can often reach $9 per gallon. Cadillac learned this the hard way, watching its sales flounder as it introduced a set of otherwise competitive vehicles. But in launching a new brand to ...    Read more

You know the old expression, "All good things must come to an end." It's a phrase that must be echoing through Mercedes-Benz hallways as the final current-generation SL-Class rolled off the production line for the final time last week. But the nameplate isn't gone for good: The German auto maker ...    Read more