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Every year, the World Car of the Year Awards program recognizes the best new vehicles on the planet automakers have to offer. A panel composed of 73 automotive journalists from around the world – two from Canada, including yours truly – submitted their votes electronically last week. The finalists in …

A few short months after Mercedes-Benz announced the creation of AMG Sport (a sub-brand that was about halfway between a "regular" Mercedes and a full-blown AMG performance car), the manufacturer went back on its decision and decided to axe it. This decision was made to simplify Mercedes-Benz’s lineup; with so …

Canadian fans of euro wagons will soon have another model to drool over, with Mercedes-Benz announcing plans to bring the C-Class wagon to this side of the Atlantic. Available here for the first time in nearly a decade, the 2016 C-Class Wagon is longer and wider than its predecessor, which …

According to Mercedes-Benz’s history book, they invented the car 130 years ago with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (there are people that will argue that this or that inventor had a working car before that, but we’ll leave that discussion to them). To commemorate this important date, Mercedes-Benz wanted to release a …

Mercedes-Benz is continuing to rework the naming convention of its sport utility lineup, unveiling a new version of the GL and with it a new new: The GLS. Slightly overhauled for the 2017 model year, the GLS is being dubbed "the S-Class of SUVs"—hence the addition of the 'S' to …

At a press conference in Toronto today, the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada unveiled the winners in the nine vehicle categories that make up this year’s Canadian Car of the Year Awards program. These are the results of four days of intensive testing in October at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park …

According to Mercedes-Benz’s new nomenclature, SUVs are now be named with the same letters as the sedans: the small SUV has become the GLC, followed by the GLE and finally the new GLS, which will replace the current GL. Mercedes-Benz just launched the 2017 GLS, and as we suspected, it …

The 28 th edition of what is affectionately known as Testfest is under way. This annual event gathers up members of the Automotive Journalists Association of Canada in order to determine the best new vehicles for 2016. This year, the test program will be held at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park …

In case you’re not following this year’s Formula 1 season –nobody will blame you, trust me– know that after the end of last weekend’s Russian Grand Prix, only four races remain in the calendar. During said race, two major events influenced the 2015 season. First of all, German driver Nico …

It seems that the discovery of VW’s cheating program that limited pollution emissions during the EPA’s lab tests was only the tip of the iceberg; according to reports by Emission Analytics, four other manufacturers may have been trying to hide something… A couple of Mercedes-Benz’s Euro engines emitted 0.406 grams …