It's the end of an era--well, not so much as the end of our 30 Days with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250. We're calling it a wrap today, after spending October with the first front-drive Mercedes-Benz sold in America. Over the past month, we've driven the CLA thousands of miles to find out if the...Read More»
We're at the end of our 30 days of seat time with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, and before we wrap things up tomorrow, it's time to report on the gas mileage we accrued over the past few weeks. We measured the CLA's fuel economy over a total of 1,774 miles, topping it off and checking tire...Read More»
We're winding up our 30 days of seat time with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 this week. While we wrap up our month-long driving experience, I've asked High Gear Media's trio of senior editors to kick in their thoughts on how the CLA fits its many missions--from a mainstream price point, from a...Read More»
We're winding up our 30 days of seat time with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 this week. As we drill through another few hundred miles on our $36,320 CLA 250, we're deciding which of its infotainment and connectivity features are must-haves--and which ones we'd control/alt/delete. All of the CLA's...Read More»
We're winding up our 30 days of seat time with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 this week, and as we put another few hundred miles on our $36,320 Cirrus White CLA 250, we're narrowing down the best and worst of its drivetrain. Before we ever drove the CLA 250, its performance numbers set up a loaded...Read More»
We're down to our final ten days with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, as we spend this month sorting out whether it's a true luxury car, how it's changed on its way to the U.S., and how we'd order one. So far, we've spent more than 2,500 miles in it, lapping the East Coast from I-95 to I-85 and...Read More»
We're speeding through a month of seat time in the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, over more than 2000 miles in a $36,320 Cirrus White example with Sahara beige MB-Tex upholstery and an infotainment system that connects us with Facebook feeds and Yelp reviews, right from the driver's seat. That spray...Read More»
October is halfway through, and so is the month we're spending with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, just as it goes on sale in the U.S. The $36,320 CLA 250 in our driveway has racked up nearly 2000 miles so far, as we try to figure out what it does best--and today, whether its initial quality...Read More»
This month, we're getting a deeper dive with one of the bigger new-car stories of the year. We're spending 30 days with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, just as it goes on sale in the U.S. One of the reasons it's a big story? It's a Mercedes-Benz at a $29,900 base price (not including a $925...Read More»
The 2014 Mercedes CLA 250 is the latest arrival in TCC's garage, and for the next 30 days we'll be studying what you get for your $30,000 entry price. To do that, we'll first put the CLA 250 in some better context. There are remarkably few direct competitors to the CLA, and in part, that's on...Read More»
Our October is booked, as far as drive time is concerned: This month, we're putting ourselves into the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 just as it goes on sale, spending 30 days with it to bring you more details, driving impressions, and information on the new compact four-door. We've just updated our...Read More»
This month, we're spending lots of quality time with the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, the brand-new, front-wheel-drive, compact sedan that's been hustling across TV screens since the Super Bowl--and is now hustling its way into showrooms as it goes on sale. We've had lots of fun with the CLA...Read More»
We're setting out this week on an in-depth look at the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250. But before we dig too deeply into the details, it's time to take a tour through our past coverage--the headlines that show where we've already been with the CLA, from Detroit to Geneva, from southern France to...Read More»
We regularly cruise the Interstates and autobahns behind the wheel of high-performance machinery--plenty of it wearing the three-pointed star. This month, we'll be turning our sights on the opposite end of the luxury and performance spectrum, toward something a little more mainstream--to the 2014...Read More»
