Of all the places the world has seen affected by the economic crisis, Germany's luxury car market is one of the leading downers. Happily, their luxury car production hasn't experienced the same fate. While their domestic market has fallen by more than a quarter in volume, exterior trade keeps their companies working. All of Germany's "Big Three", Mercedes, BMW and...
Mercedes decided to reveal the facelift version of Mercedes C-Class, a model which received a complete set of improvements including aesthetic touches but also few novelties for the engine range. The headlights got revised benefiting from LED lights together with the bi-xenon lights while a new front bumper was fitted. In the rear LED lights are available too together with...
If perhaps you would like a new status statement in the form of a Mercedes and reckon that riding stock wheels isn't your thing but a tuned up convertible is too much, there is a solution. It comes from Prior Design and it speaks of something seriously special, a magnificent piece of work on the Mercedes E Class coupe that...
Just in case you've bought yourself a new Mercedes Benz E Class Convertible and you reckon you're going to slip under the radar with it there's two things you may need. Firstly, a head exam and secondly, some help from a German tuner called Piecha Design. This is because Piecha Design have come up with what they call a complete...
I for one always reckoned that Mercedes' Maybach brand is the most straight forward and no nonsense one out there. For some reason or other, most of the journalistic media would prefer to mock it and favoring creations by Bentley and Rolls Royce to it. I understand the appeal of those cars but I don't understand why Maybach is failing....
Ok, it's just me who considers this sort of car as ready for a pension plan but it did get a 2012 face along some other things. Among the "other things" you'll find a new engine, one of the small 4 cylinder sort. Since the styling changes are on the minor side, let's focus on what else the three pointed...
As with any major manufacturer, someday they will need new engineers, designers and employees of any sort. Mercedes is no exception. What is a bit of an exception is what some students created using their time and imagination in a Mercedes shop. The students in question did something quite brilliant as your average redneck might. Put simply, they took one...
The well-known Playboy magazine decided to make its own top including several categories, the most important one being the Car of the Year, and this year, the award goes to Mercedes SLS AMG. Thus, the German supercar has been picked as the hottest car launched this year, getting the big prize - the Car of the Year award. However, there...
Tuners from PIECHA decided to make few improvements for the Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet and thus they created a tuning kit for the German model. The German convertible model gets an upgraded appearance thanks to few stylish components adopted by the tuners. A quad-pipe exhaust system is mounted in the new rear spoiler, a chromed exhaust system, we should notice. In...
We talked recently about the future generation SLK as the Germans from Mercedes provided few shots with the camouflaged model while testing. However, it seems that the Germans accidentally revealed the official video for the 2012 Mercedes SLK where the model is presenting all its features. Of course the video got deleted very quickly but however we have some screenshots...
The Germans from Kicherer well-known for their appetite to create tuning kits for Mercedes models reveals the SLS 63 Supersport package developed of course for the Mercedes SLS AMG supercar. Under the bonnet the German tuners succeeded to rise the power of the model to 610 horsepower and 670 Nm of torque mainly due to a better calibrated ECU unit....
This bit of news may not seem so new but bare with me. Mercedes Benz has decided to send its baby A Class over to China. The A Class' introduction to the Chinese market is part of a very ambitious plan the Germans have for themselves. Starting next year the 2011 Mercedes A Class will be available in China in...
The Mercedes SLS AMG has been around for a while and although it hasn't yet been sold in massive numbers the tuning community are already working on it. The 2010 Essen Motor Show is just the place for a tuner to show off something like this in style. Since the tuner in question is Brabus and Mercedes is pretty much...
According to Ernst Lieb, the Head of the U.S. department of Mercedes, the BlueTEC diesel version of the GLK model will be introduced in U.S. starting 2012. We talk about the four-cylinder 2.2-liter propeller which will be found on the C-Classe later in 2013. It seems that the Germans at Mercedes are considering the benefits of a diesel propeller and...
Mercedes will reveal within the Los Angeles Auto Show an innovative concept which will compete at the Los Angeles Design Challenge. The Biome concept was designed in Carlsbad by Hubert Lee and aims to win the Los Angeles Design Challenge, a contest which searches for a model with a mass less than 1000lb, which is about 454 kilograms. Even Mercedes...
The Paris Motor Show which ended just over a month ago, saw the German triple star manufacturer revealing the 2012 version of the Mercedes-Benz CLS. The 2012 model year CLS is a nice new release, makes for interesting reading on the refresh of a class opening Mercedes, but it's, well, a bit lacking. Mercedes payed attention to this aspect and...
The Sindelfingen plant in Germany where the people from Mercedes manufacture also the CLS and CL models will be the one from where the CLS Shooting Brake model will see the sunlight. The Germans at Mercedes announced that the CLS Shooting Brake model will enter production, after the concept with the same name was revealed at the Beijing Auto Show....
The Americans at the NHTSA have caught the Germans at Mercedes-Benz out with some problems. Sadly, the problem Mercedes is experiencing has lead to a very big recall on quite a few of the Stuttgart based manufacturer's models. The problem that sparked the investigation at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and eventually lead to this recall is related to...
Death Valley is the place where the Germans from Mercedes are currently testing the next-generation Mercedes SLK, the following photos released by the manufacturer proving this. Mercedes decided to reveal some interior shots too, new elements such revised dashboard and three-spoke steering wheel are available. The main purpose for this test made in the U.S. was to see how the...
The Germans at Brabus managed to create a tuning kit for the Mercedes S-Class model, more exactly the S600 version, and they managed to rise the output power to 800 horsepower. Brabus SV12 R Biturbo 800 is the name of the newest tuning kit created by the German tuners, a tuning kit that provides better aesthetics and impressive performance worth...
