There are certain things to which we all look forward: that unnecessarily slow walk to the front door after a great first date, the next episode of Top Gear, pay day … and AMG converting a standard Mercedes-Benz into a velvet-wrapped sledgehammer.

Aluminum is a long-time sweetheart of the auto industry.  It’s been used in the Audi Space Frame for years.  Jaguar crafts its vehicles out of the lightweight metal.  Even the new Range Rover is made from it.  On the domestic front, Ford will make its best-selling F-150 pickup out of aluminum starting with the 2015 […] More »

The world has been waiting for the 2015 S-Class Coupe for quite a while.  And now that it’s finally here, it’s hard to pay attention to it…as a whole. Mercedes-Benz can blame its own active curve tilting function. “The vehicle leans into bends much like a motorcyclist, thereby reducing the lateral acceleration acting on the […] More »

Ladies and gentlemen, please bow your heads and join Chris Harris in a moment of silence. The introduction of the 2015 C-Class means its W204 iteration is not long for this world.  In departing showroom floors, it will also take the naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8 C63 AMG along with it.  Mercedes’s next-generation hot rod is […] More »

The 2015 MB C-class has been revealed! Not officially, though, as these photos were leaked on a Spanish website. As expected the car mimics the brand new CLA’s styling with a strong descending bone line and an upswept light catcher above the rockers both of which lead the eye back along the car’s flanks creating […] More »