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Autonomous emergency braking (AEB), once only available in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and its competitors, has now trickled into lower-priced segments, and for good reason: to save lives. Euro NCAP estimates AEB can prevent up to 8,000 deaths per year, and Volvo says its City Safety-equipped vehicles have reduced accidents by 27 percent when measured against […] More »

Let’s dream for a moment, shall we? Let’s imagine the United States was lucky enough to have both the Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG and the A45 AMG. Imagine having to decide between the two. Heaven forbid those first-world problems, but which car would you choose? You may like the swoopy four-door-coupe silhouette of the CLA […] More »

Do you enjoy stuffing your pillows with 100 dollar bills? Does your license plate frame read “my other car is a yacht?” Do you fill your pool with coins and then swim around in them as though they were liquid? If so, then The Bentley Mulsanne might just be your type of car. But it’s […] More »

  Normally this comparison wouldn’t even be a contest. Despite its classy pretensions, the average 40 year old Mercedes couldn’t hold a candle to the a newer model in performance or luxury coddling. They key word there, is normally. This particular 280SE 3.5 is anything but.

Mercedes and BMW have been at each other’s throat’s for a long, long time. This time though, the competition isn’t taking place between their top-tiers: it’s at the bottom. The entry-level luxury car market is a hot one, and both Mercedes and BMW have new cars to send into the fray. In this episode of […] More »

Spring is upon us, and that means two things: Baseball and driving. Luckily the luxury car market makes no qualms with supplying to the fun to the second half of that equation. Mercedes has their stalwart of entry level coziness in the C-Class, but the Cadillac is set to join the fray in 2013.

After ten years of leading the U.S. luxury vehicle sales charts, Lexus may shortly be dethroned by the previous leader, Mercedes-Benz, as well as BMW. While Lexus sales have been recuperating this year from the first half of last year’s poor sales result, the Mercedes-Benz sales have been going up really fast.
One likely reason for