Mercedes-Benz News

  • 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE450 AMG Sport on the set of Jurassic World

    Mercedes-Benz’s new GLE Coupe is set to make its world debut next week at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, and today we learned that the vehicle will also feature in the upcoming fourth Jurassic Park movie, Jurassic World. The partnership continues the relationship between the movie’s producer Universal and the German automaker, first forged in 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park which helped launched the original M-Class by featuring it prominently. In Jurassic World, which hits theaters June 12, the characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard utilize a number of...

  • 2016 Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    2016 Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman Spy Shots (With Interior)

    Mercedes-Benz is working on an extra, extra-long version of its S-Class sedan that’s expected to revive the Pullman name and have a price tag more than double that of the Rolls-Royce Phantom in some guises. A prototype version has been spotted again, revealing many of the car’s details...

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    Mercedes Confirms Plans To Move U.S. Headquarters To Atlanta

    Mercedes-Benz has a home in the United States, and it's been in New Jersey since 1972. That is set to change, however, as the German automaker has confirmed it will be moving its local headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia later this year. MUST SEE: 2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 Does Burnout, Then Runs The...

  • 2014 BMW M235i first drive, Las Vegas Motor Speedway
    Audi, BMW And Mercedes-Benz All Achieve Record U.S. Sales In 2014

    Germany’s three major luxury automotive brands experienced record sales in the U.S. in 2014, with BMW ending the year as the most successful. In 2014, BMW sold a staggering 339,738 vehicles here, up 9.8 percent on the record 309,280 it sold in 2013. The most popular model was the...

  • Mercedes-Benz F015 Luxury in Motion concept, 2015 Consumer Electronics Show
    The future arrives early with Mercedes-Benz F015 self-driving car concept

    The new autonomous car concept Mercedes-Benz has been teasing for this week’s 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been revealed as the F015 Luxury in Motion, a self-driving, fully-connected, hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid that offers a vision of driving in the future. In...

  • Mercedes-Benz F015 Luxury in Motion concept, 2015 Consumer Electronics Show
    More Teasers Released For Mercedes Concept Debuting At 2015 CES

    Mercedes-Benz has released more teaser shots for its new concept car it plans to present at this week’s 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. We’ve already spied a shrouded version of the concept and Mercedes has also dropped a few hints in the recent past. The automaker is hoping the...

  • 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien

    Mercedes-Benz’s current E-Class has been on sale since the 2010 model year but despite its age the car is still the second most popular model in the automaker’s lineup, trailing the C-Class by only a few thousand units so far this year. Sales should get a boost in the coming years as a new generation is in the works, as evidenced by the numerous prototype sightings in recent months, and now we have a spy video of some of the more advanced examples. The new E-Class will ride on Mercedes’ modular MRA platform, which debuted in the latest C-Class where it managed to bring...

  • 2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 Coupe spy shots
    2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 Coupe Spy Video

    Mercedes-Benz recently took the covers off its all-new 2016 GLE Coupe, both in standard trim and in new AMG sport format. However, the version we’re most interested in is the dedicated performance model from Mercedes-AMG, the GLE63 Coupe, which was recently spotted testing in Spain. For those...

  • 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class
    Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class Starting Price Rises To $32,425 For 2015

    Mercedes-Benz made headlines last year when it announced it would be bringing in its CLA-Class priced from just $29,900 before adding $925 in destination charges. Now, pricing is creeping up, with the 2015 model destined to be priced from $31,500 for the entry-level CLA250 model, an increase of...

  • Mansory Mercedes-Benz S-Class
    Mansory Just Made Its First Good Car: A 1,000-HP Mercedes-Benz S-Class

    I have little to no love for any products that automotive customizer Mansory has put out over its history. The styling is typically far too in-your-face in the worst way, turning exotic, luxury, or high-performance machines into rolling bits of poorly planned pop art. The saying "It's not my cup of...

  • The Wombat has its engine and transmission, now about that little matter of steering...
    Hooniverse Updates Its Wagon Project: The Wombat

    Over in the Hooniverse, we look at things... a little differently. Some see a W123-generation Mercedes-Benz wagon as a timeless piece of German engineering that's not to be messed with. Under the hood is a stout five-cylinder turbodiesel engine that's designed to run until the Sun burns out. We see...

  • 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 AMG 4Matic
    2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE450 AMG 4Matic Coupe Preview

    Call it the answer to BMW’s X6, or call it simply another monstrosity foisted upon the world at the behest of success in China, but the Mercedes-Benz GLE 450AMG 4Matic Coupe is here, and it’s … certainly something. Since its debut in concept form at the Beijing Auto Show this...

  • 2016 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT S at Laguna Seca, first drive, November 2014

    The 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT has only just hit the scene but it’s already one of our favorite cars here at Motor Authority—and after watching his latest video from his online channel Chris Harris on Cars it’s clear Chris Harris is also a huge fan. The British journo was down at Laguna Seca recently to test Mercedes’ newest sports car, which in the video above shows him exclusively at the track. He’s also only shown in the higher-performance GT S variant, which will be the first model available when the car hits showrooms early next year. Two versions of the stunning...

  • 2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 Coupe spy shots
    2016 Mercedes-AMG GLE63 Coupe Spy Shots

    Mercedes-Benz’s rival to the BMW X6, the all-new GLE-Class Coupe (essentially an M-Class with coupe-like styling), is set to make a debut at next month’s 2015 Detroit Auto Show, but it won’t be debuting in just standard flavor as the Mercedes-AMG division will also be showing off...

  • Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG World Championship 2014 Collector's Edition
    Mercedes Rolls Out Special SL63 AMGs Celebrating F1 Victory

    Mercedes-Benz has celebrated its victory in the 2014 Formula One World Championship with a pair of special edition SL63 AMGs developed together with its star drivers. The car of the 2014 world champion Lewis Hamilton is the one in black while runner-up Nico Rosberg’s car is the one in white...

  • Teaser for Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class Coupe AMG Sport
    Mercedes-AMG Teases New AMG Sport Versions Of The C-Class And Upcoming GLE Coupe

    We’ve known for some time that Mercedes-AMG was planning a new range of performance vehicles to fill the gap between Mercedes-Benz’s range-topping variants and its own dedicated high-performance cars. We can now confirm that the new range is to be grouped under the AMG Sport heading and...

  • Mercedes-Benz autonomous car concept spy shots
    Mercedes-Benz Autonomous Car Concept Spy Shots

    Mercedes-Benz is scheduled to unveil a new concept car at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in early January, which the automaker is hoping will drive the social discourse on mobility and the design of the urban environment ahead—primarily in the area of autonomous cars. We’ve already...

  • 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG Shooting Brake
    Mercedes-Benz Reveals CLA And CLA45 AMG Shooting Brake

    Mercedes-Benz has just taken the covers off its fifth compact car, the all-new CLA Shooting Brake. The newest addition to the Mercedes lineup is essentially a wagon version of the CLA-Class sedan, and it has been revealed today in both standard form and the high-performance CLA45 AMG variant...

  • Mercedes-Benz AMG GT tape artwork screencap

    Mercedes-Benz celebrates 17 million Facebook fans with some sports car art.

  • 2016 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show
    2016 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class Video

    It could be the finest luxury sedan in the world—if our drives in the new S-Class are any clue. Yes, the Maybach nameplate is back, and this time, it’s the badge applied to what is now the ultimate S-Class. Like Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Maybach is now a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz. Maybach...

  • Mercedes AMG at the 2014 Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
    Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton Named 2014 Formula One World Champion

    Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton has been named the 2014 Formula One World Champion, after the Briton won yesterday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in spectacular style. He’s now the first Mercedes driver to claim the title since Juan Manuel Fangio all the way back in 1955. His teammate Nico...

  • Hardcore Mercedes-AMG G63 spy shots
    Hardcore Mercedes-AMG G63 Spy Shots

    Mercedes-AMG’s G63 6x6 has proven to be a massive hit, despite its price tag of around half a million dollars and the fact that it barely squeezes into most parking spots. Now, it appears the engineers at Mercedes-AMG are testing a version of the regular four-wheeled G63 fitted with a number...

  • 2016 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class, 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show
    2016 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class Debuts At 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show

    Mercedes-Benz recently confirmed one of the year’s worst-kept secrets: That its Maybach brand is making a return as a new “Mercedes-Maybach” sub-brand specializing in ultra-luxury, similar to how the existing Mercedes-AMG sub-brand specializes in performance. Now, the first...

  • Mercedes-Benz autonomous-car interior concept at TecDay, Sunnyvale, California
    Mercedes-Benz Shows How Autonomous Cars Will Revolutionize Interiors

    Mercedes-Benz creates a virtual simulation of the car interior of the future.

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