Mercedes-Benz News

Back in 2010, we first covered the feedback pedal by Continental AG. In brief, the feedback pedal ("smart pedal") is a car's gas pedal that would vibrate under certain circumstances (like speeding), notifying the driver to ease on the pedal. Or ignore it. Continental originally developed the feedback pedal ...    Read more

A brief history lesson: there once was a time when America built the world's finest luxury cars. That key word, of course, was once. Around the 1970s, when American cars slowly became caricatures of themselves, 17 feet long and dripping with chrome, came the notion that a small, well-built, (relatively) economical but ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz has announced Predictive Power Control will make its debut in the Actros, a heavy-duty truck used in Europe. This new system is capable of reducing fuel consumption by three percent by regulating speed, braking, and the transmission. This system extends the EcoRoll function and relies on GPS data to ...    Read more

We understand the Bentley folks are pretty quick to point out the newest 2013 Bentley Continental GT's fuel economy ratings. And we ask— what is the world coming to? Bentley is of course talking about its new 4.0-liter eight-cylinder engine, and granted, when you compare it to the 6.0-liter W-12 in ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz G-Class is a nearly three-ton full-size SUV, at home transporting soldiers to and from the battlefield, or well-heeled suburban power brokers. The 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class dropped at this year's New York Auto Show. Designed back in the Seventies, the G-Class has changed little, especially the exterior, though Mercedes ...    Read more

Nissan is keeping itself busy, quickly expanding its partnership with Daimler, Mercedes-Benz's parent company. Announced this week, the Japanese automaker broke ground on a new plant in Decherd, Tennessee, to build engines for the 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and likely the next Infiniti G sedan, a car rumored to share the ...    Read more

The Mercedes-Benz C63 Coupe Black Series is one of the most lusted-after supercars among Mercedes line. We can only imagine the conversation when Mercedes engineers went up to tuner division AMG, dropped off the C-Class coupe to the surprised staff, and with the mandate, "make it faster." And the AMG folks ...    Read more

In this week's episode of Ignition, on the Motor Trend YouTube channel, mean slide guitar player and pie enthusiast Carlos Lago takes the Mercedes-Benz SL550 out for a cloudy Sunday drive. The increasingly misnamed SL550 features a 4.6-liter V-8 engine with 429 horsepower and, count 'em, two turbochargers—good ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

We're not a huge fans of the Cadillac Escalade—it's luxurious sure, but it's also huge, cumbersome, and gaudy. The Escalade ESV is all of these things and then some, as it is essentially a stretched out version of the Escalade. But the folks at Becker have taken the Cadillac Escalade ...    Read more

Electric cars have been around for more than 100 years. But since they didn't receive much of the attention their internal combustion counterparts did, the electric car has had to play a fast game of catch-up. Minds from the best automotive and engineering companies in Germany have therefore partnered with the ...    Read more

I have to admit I approached this assignment with some trepidation. Automotive.com's a consumer-oriented car site, and the 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG roadster—an exotic, two-seater soft-top convertible sports car with a price tag that's higher than the average price of a new house—in my mind had as much in common ...    Read more

We're well in to spring, and as we go through the European Sales numbers released today, we can't help but think it fitting. Spring symbolizes growth and renewal, and as far as European automakers are concerned, things are starting to get pretty green. For the most part April was a ...    Read more

It sure seems like there are a lot of banks these days, and the more crowded the market, the better the rewards. Well, if you have one million dollars, that is. Case in point: Community Bank, which is the official Bank of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is changing its name ...    Read more

Our colleagues over at our sister company Motor Trend are reporting that Mercedes-Benz may adapt its Magic Sky technology to the rear-side windows of some of its models. The technology is currently in use on the sunroofs featured in the Mercedes-Benz SL and SLK models. At the touch of a ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

When we hear the words "mobile office", most folks think about using their smartphones, tablets, and laptops to connect to the office network. Where we are when we're logging on rarely matters. Well, Mercedes-Benz is changing that paradigm just a bit for the Chinese with its Viano Vision Diamond, which ...    Read more

Our fellow reporters' lost looks echoed our own feelings as we stepped into the Mercedes-Benz Transmission LA event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While we were covering the latest automotive news deep with the confines of our offices, they had spent the day gunning ...    Read more

For possibly the first time in history, government regulations and consumer tastes have coincided. On the one hand, government regulations here in the States and abroad require car engines to have fewer emissions and be more fuel efficient than ever before. On the other hand, consumers are buying such ...    Read more

Always been confused by those alphanumeric car names introduced by ze Germans not so long ago? Well, get ready to pull out your smartphone and bring up your Mercedes-Benz app. Our colleagues over at Automobile Magazine report the automaker plans to revamp its lineup's naming scheme to make order out ...    Read more

Yesterday we posted about leaked images of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe which will debut this evening at an avant garde art party at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and, in a few weeks, at the Beijing Auto Show. We were spot on in our speculation that the Mercedes ...    Read more

Last month, Mercedes-Benz surprised the autosphere with news that it would be unveiling a "concept style coupe" vehicle at, of all places, an avant garde art party at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Mercedes later mentioned it would debut an all-new sedan at the upcoming Beijing ...    Read more

Mercedes-Benz quite humorously calls its G-Class off-road beast "forever young." Because it's been around in essentially the same form since 1979 without much more than a brush-up every now and then, it's become something of a too-strange-to-live-too-cool-to-die phenomenon for the automaker, cheating death most recently in 2005 when Mercedes introduced the ...    Read more

It's been a little while coming, but it appears Infiniti is finally set to make a serious run at German competitors Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Thanks to an interview with an anonymous source close to the Japanese automaker, the 2014 model year is shaping up as a busy one for Infiniti. ...    Read more

Updates for the stalwart 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class are primarily minor, with one major exception. That exception is the addition of the Mercedes G63 AMG to the full-size SUV's lineup. The most powerful G-Class comes equipped with a twin-turbo V-8 which generates 544 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque, or low-end acceleration ...    Read more