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 »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 29, 2013
Mercedes-Benz is going to launch the GLA with a limited run of Edition 1 models just as it did with the related CLA. The crossover GLA will be available for order beginning later next month. The Edition 1 available from launch will only stick around for a year and brings Edition 1-limited design touches and […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 28, 2013
…But not first place. The Indian GP yesterday saw reigning champ Sebastian Vettel clinch the F1 championship, his fourth in a row. Tires were an issue once again as the soft options suffered from early degradation affecting all drivers except Sebastian Vettel. Who, of course, qualified on the pole. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas cars were strong […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 28, 2013
Mercedes-Benz invited Chris Harris and former F1 driver David Coulthard to drive a 220 Sedan in the Nurburgring round of the Langstreckencup (Long Distance Cup), the world’s largest historic endurance racing series. Harris was so excited by the invitation that he bought a suit. Not a racing suit, mind you, but a poorly-fitting business suit. […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 25, 2013
Yesterday we ran a story about a super-mean rally SL500. And it got us wondering… what’s the greatest SL that Mercedes ever built? We all remember the legendary mid ’50s Gullwing and of course the ‘Pagoda’ SL. But what about more recent SLs like the McLaren collab SLR? Or perhaps an AMG tuned Black Series? […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 25, 2013
Mercedes-Benz was active on the global rally circuit in the late 1970’s and developed a new car for the 1981 World Rally Championship. They hired Walter Rorhl, who had just won the WRC for Fiat in 1980, to test the new R107 SL500 and give input. The car was based on a street-driven SL except […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 24, 2013
The Mercedes-Benz S-class launched three months ago and has already has more than 30,000 orders placed. Last year, MB sold a total of 65,000 of it’s top-of-the-food-chain sedan all year! That means that Benz is on pace to double sales of this high margin model! It isn’t too surprising that sales have jumped as this […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | October 22, 2013
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