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Link Love From The Car Connection: Mercedes Goes Blue, Gold Porsche Goes Missing, We Go Nuts Watching A Bus Make A U-Turn

Tinseltown car tech -- Mercedes has launched a new campaign touting its BlueTEC vehicles and the Hollywood types who love 'em. Presumably, said types are happy to drive clean diesel autos, but given Sheryl Crow's expression in that publicity shot, we're not really sure. Please back away from the...

April 19, 2009 by Richard Read

2009 Shanghai Auto Show Coverage

April 19, 2009

Mercedes-Benz Offers AMG Sports Pack For S-Class, CL-Class

April 16, 2009

Driven: 2009 Mercedes-Benz C300 4Matic

April 15, 2009

Link Love From The Car Connection: Mercedes Sneak Peak, Rally For Rentals, And What Is Up With All These Pod Things?

Looking for something fun to do this summer? How's about signing up for the annual Rental Car Rally, which will run this June from San Francisco to Yuma, Arizona. Clearly... April 14, 2009 by Richard Read

2009 New York Auto Show: 2010 Mercedes-Benz GL Goes Nip/Tuck

The 2010 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class SUV doesn't look a lot different, but the standard-bearing sport-ute gets small nips and tucks for the new model year, to carry it... April 8, 2009 by Marty Padgett

First Drive: 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid

Mercedes-Benz today unveiled its latest effort to reduce the fuel consumption of its large luxury vehicles with the launch of the 2010 ML450 Hybrid. This new mdoel of the ML... April 8, 2009 by John Voelcker

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing Prepares For Takeoff

The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing sure knows how to make an entrance. The car (an understatement) won't debut until the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and it won't... April 8, 2009 by Richard Read

2009 New York Auto Show: 2011 Mercedes-Benz E250 Bluetec Diesel in the Works

“Could you imagine a four-cylinder diesel?” asked a Mercedes-Benz exec, right after showing off the company’s new E-Class range for 2010. The question, posed by sales... April 8, 2009 by John Voelcker 2

2009 New York Auto Show: 2010 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Goes Hybrid

Mercedes-Benz will restyle the S-Class for the 2010 model year--and as it's been dangling out there for a couple of years, it's set to sell its first S-Class Hybrid sedans in... April 8, 2009 by Marty Padgett

Mercedes-Benz March 2009 Sales Improve From February

Mercedes-Benz announced March worldwide sales were down 16 percent from its sales that month in 2008. By the numbers, that's 110,400 units versus 131,500 in March 2008. The... April 7, 2009 by Colin Mathews

2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Gets 7-Speed MCT From SL

Mercedes will be unveiling the high-performance AMG version of its E-Class sedan, the 2010 E63 AMG, at the New York Auto Show next week. They claim its performance, handling... March 31, 2009 by Colin Mathews

Mercedes Announces 2010 E-Class Coupe Engine Lineup

Today Mercedes-Benz announces its European range of engines for the 2010 E-Class Coupe. U.S. offerings likely won't include four-cylinders or diesels (unless diesel... March 25, 2009 by Colin Mathews

Link Love From The Car Connection: GMC Terrain Tweeted, Daimler Delivers, Plus Videos Of Hot Cabs And Cold Hearts

GMC Terrain in 140 characters -- Twitter has done something new: it's broken a press embargo. No one's supposed to know about the new GMC Terrain until April 5, but... March 25, 2009 by Richard Read

Abu-Dhabi Company To Take 9.1 percent stake in Daimler AG

Aabar Investment PJSC has announced it will pay almost 2 billion euro (approx. $2.72 billion) to take a 9.1 percent stake in Daimler AG, the parent company of the... March 23, 2009 by Colin Mathews

Mercedes To Expand GL-, R-, and M-Class Alabama Factory

Inexplicably, Mercedes-Benz looks to be preparing an expansion of its Vance, Ala. factory that currently produces its M-, GL-, and R-Class vehicles. Mercedes posted a steep... March 22, 2009 by Colin Mathews

Infiniti, Mercedes, and Lexus Lean On Incentives To Move Sales

Even luxury auto brands who once scoffed at the domestics' unseemly hood-slammin', dollar-dealin' pleas are now leaning on big incentives in hopes of reducing swelling... March 16, 2009 by Colin Mathews

BMW and Daimler would make Reifenstahl proud

BMW And Daimler? Tough Times Force National Unity In Germany. Uh-Oh.

From Germany we're getting news that BMW and Daimler AG are looking to swap spit stock. (Sorry for that makeout image so early on a Monday morning.) The proposal on the table... March 9, 2009 by Richard Read 1

Mercedes-Benz SLK '2LOOK' Edition Says Opposites Attract

Opposites attract. So sang Paula Abdul back before she was reduced to incoherent babbling on American Idol and drunk appearances on morning news shows. Mercedes agrees with... March 5, 2009 by Colin Mathews