It’s like a Frankenstein scenario gone awry, but for most of us, this bodes some exciting news. Not that we don’t love the silky smooth exhaust note of Aston Martin’s current 4.7-liter v8 in the Vantage, but the promise of a “bespoke v8 engine” developed by Mercedes-AMG is certainly eyebrow raising, and elicits visions of […] More »

On an AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call in October we showed you an exhaust sound battle between an E92 BMW M3 and a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. In that last battle the cars were standing still. The video below takes the action a step further by comparing the exhaust sounds when the cars are accelerating. As […] More »

A home run for Mercedes Benz? It’s still too early to tell, but more and more it’s looking like it. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the new car’s done more than just widen the sales gap between Mercedes and BMW. More importantly, the CLA’s attracted a new, younger generation of customers into the […] More »

I’ll admit it. This excites me. We’ve come a long long way from the days of wood paneling, floppy handling, and Ghostbusters into a bright future – but it’s still uncertain. I’m talking about a future where wagons and proper ‘Estate’ variants are steadily being replaced one at a time with niche market crossovers, GT’s, […] More »

The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is selling like moonshine at a speakeasy. At the Sindelfingen, Germany plant where the S-Class is built, employees have agreed to extend their shifts by 74 minutes per day beginning in 2014. Employees were already logging an extra 30 minutes of shift time in 2013. In addition to the popular S-Class, strong demand […] 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 »