Mercedes-Benz News

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe and Cabriolet are heading to the showroom next month, just in time for summer. Whether you want to feel the wind ripping through your hair as you drive down the coast or zip through the city streets in style, there's an E-Class to fit any ...    Read more

We understand that time is valuable, and for your benefit, we've composed a list to highlight the most important news each day of the past week. Kicking things off was an NHTSA announcement that traffic fatalities are gearing up to break a devastating record. Thankfully the next few days brought ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz will be the first to tell you that it is the grandfather of the diesel engine. Across the pond, this makes for really good for business as 55 percent of all Europeans drive a vehicle with a diesel engine under the hood. Back in America, that number is incinerated ...    Read more

Sorting through Mercedes-Benz's ever-expanding lineup, it can feel like a never-diminishing bowl of alphabet soup. But as far as the suits in Stuttgart are concerned, there is one letter that matters above all: S. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class exemplifies that rare confluence of driving characteristics, advanced technology, and ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz is comfortable letting you know that the comfy 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class offers superior levels of comfort. Just how comfortable? It comfortably mentions "comfort" or "comfortable" 19 times in its press release. On page one. Of four. But is it? Is it comfortable? Well, yes. At least the previous S-Class ...    Read more

Set to be unveiled for real next week, the next-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class slipped out a little earlier...in scale model form. This latest S-Class has become more luxurious to replace the Maybach, and adds an extra-long version set to top the range. An S-Class coupe will replace the CL, and a ...    Read more

For this episode of Head 2 Head, Motor Trend's Johnny Lieberman compares the 2013 Range Rover and the 2013 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG using several technical and challenging obstacles on what happens to be Motor Trend's testing ground for SUV of the Year. Both vehicles can manage the dirt flawlessly, but ...    Read more

Back in the day, the D.A.R.E. cop in my hometown drove a 1980s Chevrolet Camaro seized from a drug dealer, the last part of that sentence not-at-all fitting certain stereotypes to a T, right? Right. Today's Chevrolet Camaro SS is a far more sophisticated beast and is now ending up in ...    Read more

At the end of last month, Mercedes-Benz announced a recall on select 2013 GL models, including the GL350 BlueTEC, GL450 4MATIC, GL550 4MATIC, and GL63 AMG. The vehicles affected have a manufacturing date between May 15, 2012 and October 4, 2012. Toyota also announced a recall late last month on ...    Read more

Remember when you thought cars that could drive themselves were right up there with ones that could fly? Well, the former may happen sooner than you think, and an American automaker may be the first to do so. That was only the first major automotive news story of the week ...    Read more

We're not exactly sure where this picture of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class came from--other than a French car site--but we do know that it's pretty spot-on with what we've seen so far and looks to be a legitimate picture of the upcoming flagship sedan. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class ...    Read more

Believe it or not, Mercedes-Benz actually makes vehicles that excel in a harsh working environment. No, we're not talking about the GL-Class or even the SLS (although it would be wildly entertaining to see an SLS AMG try to outrun a Sidewinder missile). We're thinking more along the lines of ...    Read more

Despite its absurdly long name, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 BlueTEC 4MATIC represents a crucial shift in the Mercedes-Benz lineup. This marks the first time since 1985 that the German automaker will bring a four-cylinder diesel engine to the U.S. The 2.1-liter twin-turbocharged four-cylinder will deliver 200 horsepower, and an exceptional ...    Read more

China is still an emerging market when it comes to new cars, yet it has become one of the most pivotal when it comes to automakers going out of their way to meet the needs of the buying public. That's because a decade ago, China was selling a few million ...    Read more

For this episode, Frank Markus of Motor Trend travels to Saint Tropez to test out the brand new Mercedes-Benz CLA, the automaker's new entry into the youth market. The idea of a Mercedes-Benz under $30,000 seems dangerous, especially when you take the old ...    Read more

In a week filled with tragedy, much more happened outside the automotive sphere than in it. But things did happen, mostly in Shanghai, China, where the Shanghai Motor Show is kicking off this week. It wasn't too long ago when China was thought of as a country that drove around ...    Read more

Luxury doesn't have to be big, and Mercedes-Benz is emphasizing this more than ever with its line of new cars like the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA. It's taking that idea one step further with its GLA Concept, debuting at this month's Shanghai Motor Show. At 172.5 ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz will reportedly expand its bread-and-butter C-Class offerings to better compete with the BMW 3 Series. Potentially looking to further differentiate between the C and the newly debuted, entry-level CLA, Mercedes will add diesel, hybrid, and convertible versions to the C-Class. The current C-Class is only ...    Read more

Toyota will be holding behind-the-wheel safety events in Torrance, California, Denver, Colorado, and San Antonio, Texas for new drivers as part of its free driving program, Toyota Driving Expectations. Teen drivers with permits or licenses can use the classes, and online resources, to learn about defensive driving skills, accident avoidance, ...    Read more

It's easy to snooze through new car sales each month with a few inevitabilities, right? The Ford F-Series will always be the best-selling pickup. The Toyota Camry will always be the best-selling midsizer, unless the Accord trades spots with it like it does so often. Except that neither the Accord nor ...    Read more

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The 2013 New York Auto Show press days are over, and after a weekend to reflect on what we saw in New York City's Javits Center, we've distilled the dozens of debuts into our list of the best and worst. We call it ...    Read more

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Even Mercedes-Benz at times realizes that there are other companies with greater expertise in subjects than itself, such as with navigation systems. That's why it's partnering with Garmin to roll out its next-generation navigation system over the next four years across the Mercedes-Benz lineup. "Being selected by Daimler as their global ...    Read more

So if you had a trip to Hawaii to plan, what would you drive? Yeah, a $350,000 Ferrari FF isn't a bad choice. And who from the Motor Trend crew would you bring along? Yeah, we imagine we'd pick host Jessi Lang, too. Arthur St. Antoine picked both the Big Island and ...    Read more

Every few months, we venture out from our cubicles and meet en masse with people we, at times, consider extended family, heading to locales all over the U.S.--and the world sometimes--to hit up yet another auto show. Next week, we're reconvening in the Big Apple to bring you all the ...    Read more

Confirming just how safe its vehicles are, Mercedes-Benz has announced that its 2013 C-Class compact sedan and coupe and M-Class midsize SUV scored five-star ratings in recent U.S. crash safety tests. Mercedes-Benz, to its credit, points out that since 2010, fewer vehicles have achieved five-star ratings. That's when the government ...    Read more