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New Mercedes E-Class 350 4Matic Hits The Spot
The Mercedes-Benz E class is their top of the line luxury passenger car. In prior years the E class did not always rise very far above the entry level (for Mercedes) C class cars, but the new E350 is a true premium Mercedes. What’s even better is that the price tag for this bundle of [...]
Mercedes GLK350 4Matic – Best SUV Ever
In the general way of things, I’m not a big fan of driving around in an SUV. They tend to be overweight, slow, and they wallow in corners. My biggest complaint is that they can be heavy and at the same time, fail to feel solid on the road. But I finally found an SUV [...]
Fun on the Run to the Sun
Being an automotive journalist has to have some upside this year – amid all the news of declining subscription rates and advertising sales in free-fall, there’s got to be a silver lining somewhere on this cloud! The automotive journalism business has always had its ups and downs. On the downside, you’ll never buy a villa [...]
We Got Mercedes SLS Spy Photos
Mercedes-Benz made a slight tactical error this week, parking their new SLS roadster and gull-wing coupes outside our hotel in Monterey. We (and about 20 other journalists there for the Mazda rollout) had about 2 minutes of shooting time before they spotted us and covered up the cars, but that was enough for a sneak [...]
China Looks to the Future with Automotive Design Talent
There’s a popular belief in the industrialized world that the global economy is shaping up such that we in the West will do wonderful creative highly paid design work, and people in China will work for low wages in factories building the gadgets and cars that we design. As it says on the box that [...]
Think you can drive? Care to prove it?
OK hot shoes, here’s your chance to show the world just what you can do-assuming you have a spare $50-Large burning a hole in your pocket. A group is developing its own reality TV show in which amateur drivers will haul ass on closed public roads. Participants get to race a Ferrari, a Porsche, and [...]
2009 Mercedes-Benz C300 4Matic
I’m always excited when the press car delivery guy shows up in a Mercedes-Benz. I’m excited because I know I’m going to spend the next week driving around in an exceptional car. Honestly, when it comes to a sporty luxury car, Mercedes still sets the bar for everyone else.
Mercedes Posts Big Sales in China
Keeping our attention focused on the east, Mercedes-Benz posted huge sales growth in the Middle Kingdom during the first 11 months of 2008. The venerable German automaker has long sold cars throughout the world – from utilitarian sedans to rugged off-road vehicles, and China has been a recent favorite. Sales rose by over 50% so [...]
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