Mercedes-Benz wants to fill the garages of new luxury car shoppers with its 2015 C-Class. Clearly, it also wants to fill holes in the automobile market, such as the crossover “coupe” segment.
By: Derek Shiekhi | May 28, 2014
That didn’t take long. It was only April when we spotted a development mule version of the Mercedes-Benz MLC/ML Coupe. The crew at AMG quickly got its wrench-turning hands on it and created what you see in the spy shots: the MLC63/ML63 AMG Coupe.
By: Derek Shiekhi | May 20, 2014
The automotive industry is moving toward electrification like Walmart shoppers moving through the doors at 5 a.m. on Black Friday. Thanks to tightening EPA regulations, there’s a lot of pressure to get more plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles on the roads, but only so much can be done given the constraints of the time-space continuum. The W205 C-Class is not immune to this impending wave of electrification, as demonstrated by these spy shots of C-Class sedan and wagon plug-in prototypes.
By: Manuel Carrillo III | May 6, 2014
This week’s AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call footage comes from the 2012 WannaGOFAST Georgia Half-Mile Shootout. The star of this video is an E63 AMG Wagon that starts off with a race against a heavily tuned BMW E90 3 Series. After that, it goes toe-to-toe against a wicked-quick V8 Mazda Miata. The E63 hustles down […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | January 6, 2014
On an AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call in October we showed you an exhaust sound battle between an E92 BMW M3 and a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. In that last battle the cars were standing still. The video below takes the action a step further by comparing the exhaust sounds when the cars are accelerating. As […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | December 30, 2013
All carmakers have been having a record year, sales and profits are up in virtually every segment and within every company. But Mercedes-Benz is poised to dethrone, recent US-luxury market king, BMW. In fact, BMW has led the US market in luxury sales for the last two years. But based on an improved/improving economy and […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | December 5, 2013
Mercedes-Benz is the most popular luxury brand in America with last month’s sales up 25 percent over the year before. The brand’s sales success can be attributed to the CLA-Class that has recently gone on sale. With a new, low-priced model in showrooms, the gap between Mercedes-Benz and sales runner-up, BMW, is widening. Last month […] More »
By: Manuel Carrillo III | November 5, 2013
