Mercedes-Benz is the most popular luxury brand in America with last month’s sales up 25 percent over the year before. The brand’s sales success can be attributed to the CLA-Class that has recently gone on sale. With a new, low-priced model in showrooms, the gap between Mercedes-Benz and sales runner-up, BMW, is widening. Last month […] More »

Being the dedicated journalist that I am, I risked life and limb to sneak into the SEMA halls while companies were still setting up (I was nearly run down by a forklift!). And what did I uncover? Well, besides the usual Dub nonsense out front, more on this tomorrow, we did manage to find this […] More »

We’ve got a pre-facelift W204 to facilitate this week’s AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call. In this video, you’ll see a C63 AMG with x-pipe exhaust performing some smoky acceleration runs … pretty standard stuff, but the way it does it is so appealing. For instance, at 1:15, it appears the C63’s revs make a distant […] More »

The guys at Auto Express recently brought these two siblings together for a knock-down, drag-out fight on both the track and the open road. They came away pretty impressed with the 2.0-liter, 355-horsepower turbo four banger. But which car did the prefer? Watch the video after the jump to find out! Via Autoblog

The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG is one of the greatest cars Mercedes-Benz has ever built, and when production of this steroidal W204 ends, it will be missed because a large component of this car’s charm lies under the hood with the 6.2-liter, naturally aspirated M156 engine that will soon be retired in the name of fuel […] More »

Since 2009 Daimler and Tesla have been in an electric vehicle partnership; Daimler owns 4.3 percent of Tesla, but there is little evidence of an alliance between the two companies. Daimler wants that to change. The company’s CFO, Bodo Uebber recently said at a press conference, “I told my guys, go back to Tesla and […] More »

In what can only be described as a purely altruistic gesture, Mercedes-Benz is rolling out a new service in the California slum of Palo Alto. The program is designed to help parents who are too busy waiting for venture capital funding to come through or purchasing food at the local organic, farm-to-table co-op (cause, you […] More »