Marcus Slater, Author at MBWorld - Page 18 of 24

  When you absolutely, positively need to be faster than everyone else, you go for the V12. And if you want to do it in style, you probably went to AMG. Mercedes has apparently put two and two together by handing off development of all their V12s to their performance division. In all truth, V12 development […] More »

The E63 AMG doesn’t come cheap. But, we can easily understand that people might want to get more bang for their buck from their run of the mill E500 sedan. German tuners, Vath have released a new kit for the E500 owner that wants all the speed and fury of an AMG without any of the […] More »

A long, long time ago (the mid 90s), Mercedes decided to take the CLK racing. Back then, there weren’t any of the sweet protoype cars that you see running around the track like we do nowadays, so manufacturers had to roll their own. Their result was the CLK-GTR. In the FIA GT class, it was […] More »

Mercedes has been remarkably quiet about the next generation of C-Class. We doubt that it has anything to do with their recent disagreement with the IIHS, but one can’t help but wonder what they’re up to with their compact sedan. Either way, the model has been seen testing on the Nurburgring completely shrouded in black […] More »

And here we were thinking that the catching a golf ball in the SLS was a strange way to advertise. Mercedes seems to have shifted their focus from the super car driving caddy to the hot hatch driving youngsters of London. With the new A-Class on the horizon, it does make sense for them to […] More »

  Jerry Seinfeld is a lazy, shiftless bastard. Well, those are Alec Bladwin’s words from this episode of Cars and Coffee, not ours. He’s got a point though. How else do you explain a show that consists of solely of classic cars and comedic banter? This episode the two comedians get coffee in a lovely red 280SL. […] More »

It’s officially done. Maybach, Daimler’s attempt at competing with the likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce, has officially discontinued all models for 2013. The brand was hemmoraging money. Maybach lost around $500,000 on each car that they sold. Nevermind the cars that sat on the lots because they we’re so incredibly expensive. To take the place […] More »