Mercedes-Benz News

What's the furthest you've ever driven on a single tank of gas? 300 miles? 400? 500 even? With modest fuel tank sizes and so-so economy, most cars sold in the U.S. won't go a great deal further than this. Some of the special diesel models sold in Europe will though, and a model that's certainly...

Mercedes-Benz is the featured marque of this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and that means the annual event’s latest Central Feature sculpture is designed to honor the German automaker. A Central Feature has been present at the Goodwood Festival of Speed since 1997, and all of them...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of the racing world’s greatest celebrations, and has been since 1993. This year, Motor Authority will be there to take in all the sights, sounds, and speed—and share it with you. So why not ride along with David Coulthard to get a bit more familiar...

Mercedes AMG drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took a hard-fought one-two victory yesterday at the 2014 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix to make it six one-two finishes this season after just eight races—a feat only achieved once before in F1. Rosberg claimed his third win of the season...

Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday started production of the 2015 C-Class at its plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the same site where it builds the M-, R- (for Chinese market only) and GL-Class models. It was first confirmed that the Tuscaloosa plant would start C-Class production as far back as 2009, and now...

Mercedes-Benz is working on an updated version of its CLS-Class for the 2015 model year and has confirmed today that the car will feature the automaker’s new MULTIBEAM LED headlights. The technology is similar to Audi’s Matrix LED headlights in that it uses multiple LEDs to enable...

Meet the new engine that will power the next generation of Mercedes-AMG sports cars: the M178. As expected, the engine is a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8, and its first application will be in the new Mercedes-AMG GT. The engine has been fully developed by the engineers at AMG and features a...

Mercedes-Benz is putting its faith in the value of the Southern Californian market by opening a new regional facility in Long Beach. The new location will house several local Mercedes-Benz operations, including an upcoming Vehicle Preparation Center, and Western Region and Learning &...

You won't be getting your knee on the ground through every corner, but Mercedes-Benz's latest technology replicates at least one of the sensations of cornering in a motorcycle--leaning into bends. MUST SEE: McLaren P1 Vs. Bugatti Veyron Drag Race In The Wild: Video Active suspension is nothing new...

While brand stores are quite common for the companies that build supercars and other exotics, they’re still a rather new concept for more mainstream makes although that is slowly starting to change. BMW has opened a series of brand stores over the past couple of years and now Mercedes-Benz is...

Mercedes-Benz is working on a mid-cycle update for its M-Class SUV and word on the street is that the update will see a plug-in hybrid model added to the lineup. Mercedes has already revealed its first plug-in hybrid in the form of the S-Class-based S500 Plug-In Hybrid, which is due for the 2015...

On Tuesday a promotional event involving Mercedes-Benz racing drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Rosberg went horribly wrong, with two people needing to be taken to hospital. Wehrlein, a DTM driver, and Rosberg, current points leader in the 2014 Formula One World Championship, were driving in...

This week Google unveiled its first car, a prototype autonomous vehicle devoid of a steering wheel and brakes yet capable of transporting passengers at speeds of up to 25 mph. Like most fully autonomous cars, Google’s prototype can only travel on pre-set routes but the plan is to eventually...

Mercedes-AMG recently started the official teaser campaign for its upcoming GT sports car by launching a new microsite that is to be continuously updated with new info leading up to the car’s final reveal this fall. Today we have the next installment of the teaser campaign: a series of videos...

The Mercedes AMG Formula One team is dominating the current season, with one of its drivers named the victor at every race held so far. Part of the reason for the winning streak is the hard work engineers at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, based in Brixworth, England, put into developing...

The Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 is a glorious monument to excess. It's both perfect, and way too much at the same time. It's both useless, and incredibly useful. It's beautiful and ugly. It's wonderful. Also, it's wonderfully expensive, which is why most of these limited-edition machines are finding...

When Mercedes-Benz showed off the G63 AMG 6x6, many declared it the ultimate iteration of the venerable "G-Wagen"--more wheels, more luxury and more power than ever before. We all forgot one thing, though: Companies like Mansory exist. MUST SEE: Pagani Huayra From The Driver's Point Of View: Video...

As always in the Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying is critical, and this was proven yet again with polesitter Nico Rosberg of Mercedes AMG winning the 2014 race in spectacular form. Once again the only real challenge came from Mercedes AMG’s other driver, in this case Lewis Hamilton, who...

Mercedes-Benz has just launched a new generation of its C-Class sedan and once again there will be coupe, wagon and high-performance AMG variants. However, according to one of the automaker’s senior staff, there will be some additional variants. We already know that a convertible will be...

The annual Cannes Film Festival isn't just a place to screen the latest movies and rub shoulders with the stars, but a fabulous opportunity for advertising your latest wares. Mercedes-Benz is doing just that this year, but is doing so for charity—by auctioning an S63 AMG Coupe for the benefit...