Mercedes-Benz C-Class Named Top Safety Pick By The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
In their latest assessments, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS has named the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class one of their Top Safety Picks for 2009. The news comes after the IIHS examined the C-Class in three categories – frontal offset, side impact and rear crash protection/head restraint – after which the sedan achieved top marks of "Good" in each.In addition to the IIHS award, the Mercedes C-Class was also awarded five stars in the Euro NCAP the European New Car Assessment Programme...

Mercedes-Benz CLS 350 CGI Grand Edition unveiled
The new Mercedes-Benz CLS Grand Edition will be launched on the market in March 2009.” The special, 4-door coupe highlights an extraordinary design that merges the sporty stylishness of a coupe with the flair of a luxury sedan. This special model is scheduled for sale beginning in January next year. One of the most desired fashion photographers in the world, Michelangelo di Battista, setup an encounter between the top model and the design trendsetter by the carmaker based in Stuttgart.[source]

Mercedes-Benz E550: A plush highway cruiser
NEW YORK -- Poverty is greatly overrated. So is what is construed as "just-folks" normalcy. Both conditions are heralded only by people who don't have access to lots of money. In a word, Paris Hilton is right. It is better to be rich, even if you are not much of anything else. Money at least gives you the opportunity to try to become something better. The theory is crass. But it is nonetheless true, as evidenced by anyone confronted with a choice between driving an economy car or a 2008 Mercedes-Benz...

Mercedes-Benz GL450 aces Motor Trend One-Year Road Test
The Gulfstream jet of SUVsWhen Mercedes-Benz announced a new, three-row-seat sport/utility would be built on the second-gen M-Class chassis architecture and that it would replace the mil-spec G-Wagen, one of our editors wrote, "There goes the neighborhood. Mercedes is wimping out by killing off an icon and replacing it with an overwrought station wagon. How could they?"That editor was me. But I'm pleased to advise you that it all came out fine. Continued customer demand garnered the brick-shaped G500...

Mercedes-Benz GLK opens the winter season
Shortly it will be time to go to the ski slopes once more, and the users of Mercedes versions with the fixed all-wheel-drive system 4MATIC can be confident as they set out toward their selected winter getaway, due to the fact that the performance of the drive arrangement on snow- or ice-packed roads truly remarkable. Mercedes-Benz shows the high traction reserves together with outstanding directional stability and safety in the latest GLK at its 4MATIC system.In acute winter settings at a height of 2500...

Mercedes-Benz GLK350 is compact luxury | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Americans would have been lousy hunters and gatherers. That's why we invented Costco. The buy-it-by-the-barrelful mentality perpetuates the American need to gather too much stuff while hunting for a deal. I've gone broke saving money at this mega-volume store. For some, the problem with Costco is the same as the problem with many SUVs: Both offer too much and are just too big for practical purposes. No one tows a boat to work every day, and no one needs 200 frozen chicken breasts. Downsizing is the new...

Mercedes-Benz Introduces New SPLITVIEW COMAND Display For The S-Class
Mercedes has announced today that starting in the summer of 2009, S-Class models will feature a new technology they're calling SPLITVIEW. Developed in collaboration with Bosch, SPLITVIEW will allow both the driver and passenger to view two separate programs via the same COMAND display. For example, let's say the vehicle's operator is in the process of viewing navigation directions, the front passenger can simultaneously watch a film on the exact same 8-inch display.You may be wondering what magic lies...

Mercedes-Benz Introduces New SPLITVIEW COMAND Display For The S-Class
Mercedes has announced today that starting in the summer of 2009, S-Class models will feature a new technology they're calling SPLITVIEW. Developed in collaboration with Bosch, SPLITVIEW will allow both the driver and passenger to view two separate programs via the same COMAND display. For example, let's say the vehicle's operator is in the process of viewing navigation directions, the front passenger can simultaneously watch a film on the exact same 8-inch display.You may be wondering what magic lies...

Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive 2011
Consumer Guide's Impressions of the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Ocean DriveMercedes-Benz seems ready to add a four-door convertible based on its big S-Class sedan. It should be much like the recent Ocean Drive concept except in name. Bring big money.What We Know About the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Ocean DriveIt's tough making a profit in the car business these days, and even top-of-the-market outfits like Mercedes-Benz don't have money to waste on pipe-dream projects. That's why observers took note when Mercedes...

Mercedes-Benz Releases Concept BlueZERO Details
Current challenges such as growing worldwide mobility requirements, declining crude oil reserves and increasingly stringent exhaust emission regulations are making the electric car more and more a focus of public attention. Thanks above all to major advances in battery technology, electric drive is seen as a promising answer to the question of how individual mobility can be made sustainable.Battery-electric drive systems offer a wealth of advantages in this respect: they provide a high level of torque...