Marcus Slater, Author at MBWorld - Page 5 of 24

It’s gotta feel good to win a medal in the Olympics. You’re at the top of your sport, you’re an icon on world stage, and if you’re Russian, you’re also the proud owner of a brand new Mercedes. Here’s how it breaks down. If you managed to win a bronze medal for mother Russia, you […] More »

I know what you’re thinking. “Man, I love the G65 AMG… But it just doesn’t have enough leather from apex predators in it. I mean, how will my friends know I’ve made it if the material they’re sitting on wouldn’t try and eat them if it were alive?” It’s a common worry. Luckily, friendly Russian […] More »

That, is a mean looking CLK. At first look, you might mistake the over-sized, bolted-on fenders of this kit as some kind of DTM wannabe. The car looks the part of a track racer. But it isn’t. This is actually the work of the Rocket Bunny, a Japanese garage that has struck gold in the JDM tuning […] More »

It’s not long until we get to see the new C-Class in it’s entirety at the Geneva Auto Show in March, but the likelihood of this particularity model making it to the states is low. That’s why I’m salivating over it right now. I really, genuinely, deeply wish they would sell this in the US. […] More »

When Mercedes first pulled the cover off the SLS AMG, I looked at and thought… “The SLR is way cooler than this.” I stand by that now. No, it didn’t have “gull wings” like the classic SL 300. It probably can’t corner as well as the SLS AMG either. In fact, AMG wasn’t even a […] More »

Now here’s a color I haven’t seen yet. The first SLS AMG Black series I saw was this luminous yellow one at the LA Auto Show. I though it looked good there, but this Yosemite Blue is my new favorite. They should just put this color on everything. The SLS. The E-Class. The CLA. Hell, […] More »

Just what the ML-Class needed: More ways to get attention. You’d think rolling around town in a big ‘ol Mercedes would be enough to turn heads, and it is… But, if everyone else is driving a Benz, this is how you stand out. It’s also how you get JDM fan boys clamoring over your German […] More »