When the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG rides out of the market and into the sunset next year (we predict with a plume of tire smoke and a touch of opposite lock) many a petroleum-laced tear will be shed, but before we start crying like a just-booted contestant from Dancing With the Stars, let us look at […] More »

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 »

We’ve got a pre-facelift W204 to facilitate this week’s AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call. In this video, you’ll see a C63 AMG with x-pipe exhaust performing some smoky acceleration runs … pretty standard stuff, but the way it does it is so appealing. For instance, at 1:15, it appears the C63’s revs make a distant […] More »

The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG is one of the greatest cars Mercedes-Benz has ever built, and when production of this steroidal W204 ends, it will be missed because a large component of this car’s charm lies under the hood with the 6.2-liter, naturally aspirated M156 engine that will soon be retired in the name of fuel […] More »

Since 2009 Daimler and Tesla have been in an electric vehicle partnership; Daimler owns 4.3 percent of Tesla, but there is little evidence of an alliance between the two companies. Daimler wants that to change. The company’s CFO, Bodo Uebber recently said at a press conference, “I told my guys, go back to Tesla and […] More »

A 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG recently annihilated Alex Roy’s previous cross-country driving record of 31 hours and 4 minutes. The record was broken by Ed Bolian, a guy who teaches Sunday school with his wife … he also sells Lamborghinis. Helping Bolian break the law was his co-driver Dave Black, and Dan Huang, the passenger/navigator. While the record has not been […] More »

Watch this Mercedes-Benz S-Class walk-around video and you’ll discover they tried to resemble the qualities of a boat in the exterior design. A boat? Interesting. When I think of “boaty” cars, I think of Lincolns and Cadillacs of the ’70s … I don’t want to think of an S-Class as a boat. The “boaty” design […] More »