A new frontal crash test was developed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and most luxury cars; including Mercedes-Benz did not get a good grade. According to CBS News, the test is designed to simulate what happened in a collision with a car, a pole or tree. At 40 miles per hour and at

It’s officially done. Maybach, Daimler’s attempt at competing with the likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce, has officially discontinued all models for 2013. The brand was hemmoraging money. Maybach lost around $500,000 on each car that they sold. Nevermind the cars that sat on the lots because they we’re so incredibly expensive. To take the place […] More »

Aaand… This is why you need to be extremely careful while passing. Even if you’re driving a powerful and agile car like the CL, no amount of engineering will be enough to save you from making bad decisions. He manages to take out four cars before coming to a stop on the bumper of a black […] More »

  We’re pretty eager to see the 2014 S-Class. But until Mercedes decides to stop playing coy we’ll just have to rely on the occasional batch of spy photos. This time, they managed to get an extremely thorough look at the interior of one of their test mules. Most intresting is the dash board. Unlike […] More »

  The A class platform sure is getting around. Besides being the base for the upcoming CLC, Mercedes has officially confirmed they’ll be building a compact SUV as well. You might remember in that teaser shot of future models from AMG, there were a few unidentifiable SUVs. Maybe this model (GLA?) was one of them. […] 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.

Yeah, it’s ugly and slow, but the Unimog is one of the most legendary and ubiquitous vehicles in Mercedes history. It’s basically bullet proof, and is easily the Mercedes we would be happiest to have in a zombie apocalypse.  Luckily for the rest of us, a New York man has put his truck on eBay.