As with any major manufacturer, someday they will need new engineers, designers and employees of any sort. Mercedes is no exception. What is a bit of an exception is what some students created using their time and imagination in a Mercedes shop. The students in question did something quite brilliant as your average redneck might. Put simply, they took one...
The well-known Playboy magazine decided to make its own top including several categories, the most important one being the Car of the Year, and this year, the award goes to Mercedes SLS AMG. Thus, the German supercar has been picked as the hottest car launched this year, getting the big prize - the Car of the Year award. However, there...
Tuners from PIECHA decided to make few improvements for the Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet and thus they created a tuning kit for the German model. The German convertible model gets an upgraded appearance thanks to few stylish components adopted by the tuners. A quad-pipe exhaust system is mounted in the new rear spoiler, a chromed exhaust system, we should notice. In...
We talked recently about the future generation SLK as the Germans from Mercedes provided few shots with the camouflaged model while testing. However, it seems that the Germans accidentally revealed the official video for the 2012 Mercedes SLK where the model is presenting all its features. Of course the video got deleted very quickly but however we have some screenshots...
The Germans from Kicherer well-known for their appetite to create tuning kits for Mercedes models reveals the SLS 63 Supersport package developed of course for the Mercedes SLS AMG supercar. Under the bonnet the German tuners succeeded to rise the power of the model to 610 horsepower and 670 Nm of torque mainly due to a better calibrated ECU unit....
This bit of news may not seem so new but bare with me. Mercedes Benz has decided to send its baby A Class over to China. The A Class' introduction to the Chinese market is part of a very ambitious plan the Germans have for themselves. Starting next year the 2011 Mercedes A Class will be available in China in...
The Mercedes SLS AMG has been around for a while and although it hasn't yet been sold in massive numbers the tuning community are already working on it. The 2010 Essen Motor Show is just the place for a tuner to show off something like this in style. Since the tuner in question is Brabus and Mercedes is pretty much...
According to Ernst Lieb, the Head of the U.S. department of Mercedes, the BlueTEC diesel version of the GLK model will be introduced in U.S. starting 2012. We talk about the four-cylinder 2.2-liter propeller which will be found on the C-Classe later in 2013. It seems that the Germans at Mercedes are considering the benefits of a diesel propeller and...
Mercedes will reveal within the Los Angeles Auto Show an innovative concept which will compete at the Los Angeles Design Challenge. The Biome concept was designed in Carlsbad by Hubert Lee and aims to win the Los Angeles Design Challenge, a contest which searches for a model with a mass less than 1000lb, which is about 454 kilograms. Even Mercedes...
The Paris Motor Show which ended just over a month ago, saw the German triple star manufacturer revealing the 2012 version of the Mercedes-Benz CLS. The 2012 model year CLS is a nice new release, makes for interesting reading on the refresh of a class opening Mercedes, but it's, well, a bit lacking. Mercedes payed attention to this aspect and...
The Sindelfingen plant in Germany where the people from Mercedes manufacture also the CLS and CL models will be the one from where the CLS Shooting Brake model will see the sunlight. The Germans at Mercedes announced that the CLS Shooting Brake model will enter production, after the concept with the same name was revealed at the Beijing Auto Show....
The Americans at the NHTSA have caught the Germans at Mercedes-Benz out with some problems. Sadly, the problem Mercedes is experiencing has lead to a very big recall on quite a few of the Stuttgart based manufacturer's models. The problem that sparked the investigation at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and eventually lead to this recall is related to...
Death Valley is the place where the Germans from Mercedes are currently testing the next-generation Mercedes SLK, the following photos released by the manufacturer proving this. Mercedes decided to reveal some interior shots too, new elements such revised dashboard and three-spoke steering wheel are available. The main purpose for this test made in the U.S. was to see how the...
The Germans at Brabus managed to create a tuning kit for the Mercedes S-Class model, more exactly the S600 version, and they managed to rise the output power to 800 horsepower. Brabus SV12 R Biturbo 800 is the name of the newest tuning kit created by the German tuners, a tuning kit that provides better aesthetics and impressive performance worth...
Mercedes ML500 4Matic receives a new tuning kit from the German tuners at Senner. Senner is a quite resonable name in the world of the luxury car tuners and the modifications made to the ML500 4Matic provies it once again. The German model received both aesthetic improvements but also few upgrades under the hood. At the exterior the tuners brought...
Mercedes decided to reveal a concept model that seems likely to be a future limited edition of the SLS AMG supercar. Named "Night Black" the German model features a matte black finish at the exterior and from the first information it might be designed for the Australian market only. While the modifications suffered by the propeller under the hood are...
I'll be honest with you and tell you right from the start that this comes with a disappointment to me. It's not because I won't be going to SEMA to see it, it's not because it has a "Konzept" tag added to the name but because of that C74 part of the title. Why am I disappointed you may ask,...
Apparently the Australian International Motor Show isn't the sort of place where only Pickup trucks get revealed but can also be a good place to see an interesting Mercedes-Benz Concept. Actually, when I mean an interesting Mercedes-Benz Concept what I mean to say is that the Germans ran out ideas and tried to disguise a production model as a concept...
The Swiss people from FAB Design managed to create a tuning kit for the Mercedes' SLS AMG. The supercar from Stuttgart received few exterior aesthetic improvements but more significant some upgrades under the hood. The details are still limited but we know that the German supercar is able to develop now thanks to FAB Design 611 horsepower, thus, extra 40...
It's no longer something new, amazing, shocking or pretty much unusual in any way when an automotive manufacturer announces some sort of technology bits added to the interior of their products. And when we speak of great manufacturers and of great impact consumer products loaded with technology it almost becomes a necessity. Considering how many cars offer iPod integration it's...
