Dec. 25 came and went several weeks ago, but, recently, AutoBlog’s Steven J. Ewing probably felt as if it was Christmas morning every time he stepped out his front door and saw a Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG waiting for him. No matter the timing, it must have been because he was a good boy last year.  […] More »

Mercedes-Benz has cooked up a snack-sized container of alphabet soup: the 2015 GLA45 AMG. Its hand-built, direct-injected and turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine serves up 355 horsepower and 332 lb.-ft. of torque.  Those figures make it “the most powerful series-production four-cylinder engine in the world.”  AMG’s 4MATIC all-wheel-drive and SPEEDSHIFT DCT dual-clutch seven-speed transmission digest that […] More »

Equipped with a 360-horsepower 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder engine (the most powerful production four-cylinder engine in the world), the Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG’s strength will never be called into question. That doesn’t mean the A45 AMG is immune to engineering companies looking to boost it even further. One of those companies is mcchip-dkr. Their stage-one tune constitutes a […] More »

We’re giving you a double dose of AMG action in this week’s AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call. In the first video, check out RENNtech’s Stage 1 tune for the A45 AMG that bumps output to 414 horsepower and 393 lb-ft of torque at about 27 pounds of boost.   In the next video, the cylinder […] More »

We found this video of Matt Farah flogging a Weistec MB E63 AMG that produces an estimated 850hp at the crank. He proceeds through his usual antics doing smoky burnouts and rolling acceleration “tests” through Orange County, California’s hills. However, he mentions that as soon as he left Weistec’s shop the air conditioning failed along […] More »

Every year, the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall hosts, among other things, many of the wheel and tire displays at SEMA. And it is in these booths that some of the best and much of the worst the automotive world has to offer is shown. We already shared some of the worst (if not […] More »

Almost a century after introducing its first car, the world-renowned prestigious automakers Mercedes-Benz, debuted its first C-Class car, the 190. The car was universally referred to as the “compact class,” but was not officially named the C-Class until 1993 with the introduction of the second C-Class cars. The main differences between the C-Class and its […] More »