Tests and Features

Today, all the luxury brands are offering new compact models in an attempt to attract new customers. As of summer 2014, Mercedes-Benz will be pitting its new GLA against the BMW X1, Audi Q3 and others. Built on the same platform as the Mercedes-Benz A Class, B Class and the …

A few weeks ago, during the Los Angeles Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz had invited several journalists to attend the official opening of its new research and development centre. Formerly located in Palo Alto and now in Sunnyvale in the famous Silicon Valley, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America (MBRDNA) is focusing …

The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter has been available in North America since 2001. Sold initially as a Freightliner (a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz) product, then as a Mercedes-Benz product and finally as a Dodge during the Daimler-Chrysler fusion, this big van returned to the Mercedes-Benz fold after the bankruptcy of Chrysler and the …

Disappointment is one of the most cutting of human emotions. Nothing can ever fall so far in our estimation than that which we have built up to a dizzying height via our own expectations. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA250 is a car that I really, truly, wanted to like, and a …

Often it’s AMG’s accountants and product planners that look at a business model and tell the company’s enthusiastic engineers that although the cars on their drawing boards are spectacular, they must adhere to budgets and sales forecasts, and therefore have to make concessions to the final design. The resulting AMG-branded …

The SLS AMG should be enough of a car to make experienced drivers nervous. The SLS AMG Black Series will make them shudder. Its 6.3-litre V8 pumps out 622 horsepower, it weighs 1,550 kilos, and it can sprint from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds. It’s the most powerful …

It’s always a memorable event when a new Mercedes-Benz arrives in Canada, mainly because new Mercedes models are very rare (I’m not talking about new versions of existing models – that’s a lot less rare!) and because, in general, they are phenomenal. That’s true of the CLA, anyway, the smallest …