Category: B-Class

The B-Class doesn’t seem like much if you’re just looking at it. The car doesn’t have the status and prestige of an E-Class or the racing history of the gullwings. It’s kind of short, a little stout… It looks like Mercedes’ interpretation of the Yaris. It’s not quite as sexy as the A-Class hatchback, but […] More »

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is selling like moonshine at a speakeasy. At the Sindelfingen, Germany plant where the S-Class is built, employees have agreed to extend their shifts by 74 minutes per day beginning in 2014. Employees were already logging an extra 30 minutes of shift time in 2013. In addition to the popular S-Class, strong demand […] More »

Mercedes-Benz is bringing its first all-electric vehicle to the U.S. market with the introduction of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive. In anticipation of its early-2014 U.S. arrival, we’re taking a look back at all the cars over the years that have made this vehicle possible. Check out our gallery below for the retrospective. You […] More »

Tesla had a rocky year back in 2008 when the company had trouble securing resources. According to Elon Musk, the company’s Chief Executive, their earlier woes were so bad that the company nearly shut down. He had to spend nearly all his personal reserve in an effort to save it. But thanks to a timely investment by Daimler, by pouring $50 million into the company, it was able to support its operations

A new advertisement was released by Brabus, a high-performance aftermarket tuning firm, showing the valve control exhaust system that it offers for the Mercedes-Benz A-Klass 250. An exhaust bypass valve is mainly a valve integrated into the exhaust system of a vehicle. It gives the driver the capability of letting exhaust gases flow through its regular path, or unload it at a certain point without having to go through the car’s muffler.

  We’ve known about the SLS AMG E-Drive for some time. Heck, we’ve already seen it on the road. But now we’ve seen it in eye-searingly bright, chrome, vinyl. You probably won’t be able to buy it this color from factory. Thankfully. Mercedes has dropped some more information about the car’s underpinnings too. After all, […] More »

  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 »