Leaf? Volt? Meet the B-Class, your new rival. Talks about Mercedes creating an electric car with Tesla have been floating through the ether for months now, but the truth is finally out. Tesla will be providing drive-trains and batteries to Mercedes for an all-electric B-Class by 2014. It might not be the souped-up AMG […] More »
Say it aint so! The compact, 911 fighter from Mercedes has been put on an indefinite hold, on the grounds that it’s too expensive. The news comes from auto motor und sport, who say they heard from company sources. According to them, the board argues they already have too many cars at that price range, […] More »
The guys at Car and Driver are incredibly lucky. The magazine was recently burdened with nine AMG loaner cars at their Detroit offices. That’s includes the SLS, S63, C63, the C63 AMG Black, the CLS63 E63 wagon, SL63 AMG Roadster, CL63 AMG Coupe, and the SLK55 AMG. All at once. What happens next is music […] More »
Mercedes’ CLS shooting brake has finally shed the last vestiges of spy cladding for a big, fat photo shoot today. Admittedly, not much has changed since the car was revealed to be a thing at last year’s Beijing auto show. That’s not a bad thing if you’re into the sexy-station wagon look. Which we most […] More »
Mercedes has made a big deal of trying to differentiate the new SLS AMG GT for the old one by talking about it’s “improved driving dynamics.” Typically that’s a hard thing to quantify. Handling characteristics can be a fairly subjective, but lap-times are most definitely not. To see how much faster the GT is […] More »
And it’ll be worth a pretty penny when it gets there. This extraordinarily rare 1927 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer has been in the same family for the past 60 years. It wasn’t driven or left out to rot, but was instead garaged. Until now, at least. The coupe is completely original and works just […] More »
Sweden is best known for their chocolate, famous skiing, and the Koenigsegg. They’re also known for being notoriously strict about driving and doing silly things with cars, which is why this particular one is so suprising. Yes it’s a Shelby Cobra, but the motor is a Mercedes. A V12, to be exact. If that […] More »