Mercedes-Benz S Class News
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The mayor Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, has taken to using an armored personnel carrier to crush illegally parked cars.
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2013 Mercedes-Benz S-Class To Spawn Four Bodystyles: Report
Mercedes-Benz is hard at work on its next-generation S-Class flagship sedan, which is expected to bow onto the market late next year as a 2013 model. We’ve already seen countless spy shots of prototypes for the new car, which have revealed a fairly conventional sedan shape with similar...
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Electric Mercedes-Benz S-Class Possible: Report
Mercedes-Benz already has a number of electric prototypes out and about including the Smart ForTwo Electric Drive, which is already available for lease and soon sale, as well as the SLS AMG E-Cell supercar, which has been confirmed for sale in 2013. Not only that but the automaker’s parent...
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2011 Detroit Auto Show: 2012 Mercedes-Benz S350 BlueTEC 4MATIC
A brand new all-wheel drive diesel sedan is about to be launched on the U.S. market in the form of the 2012 Mercedes-Benz S350 BlueTEC 4MATIC, which will be making its debut next week at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. It’s been 15 years since a diesel was offered in the S-Class flagship sedan in...
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Mercedes-Benz Adds Pedestrian Spotlight To Night View Assist
Night time driving can be difficult even with excellent vision and good headlights--and it can be especially dangerous for pedestrians at the roadside. But Mercedes-Benz has been tackling this area of road safety aggressively for years now, today announcing the addition of a unique spotlight system...
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Mercedes-Benz Continues DiesOtto Work, S-Class Still Slated To Be First
The idea of combining the best of the high-compression, high thermal efficiency characteristics with the power and familiarity of gasoline isn't new. There are a number of concepts out there, including sparkless HCCI engines, Lotus' variable compression, multi-fuel Omnivore, and of course...
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Lurking under the surface of some of the industry's top luxury sedans is a range of active suspension systems. Some are as simple as variable-rate anti-roll bars, others up the ante with magneto-rheological or air-ride dampers and complex electronic controls. Somewhere in the future lies Mercedes-Benz's next development: Magic Body Control. No, it's not a Victoria's Secret product, and as far as we can tell, it doesn't use any actual magic. But it may give you a boost of self confidence and hint of the heeby-jeebies anyway. Using hydraulic bushings to modulate the car's suspension, Magic Body...
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Bonus Gallery: 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG
You've already seen the 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, and you've already combed through the full spec sheets, but now you've got another opportunity to ogle the super sedan thanks to a fresh dump of photos straight from Mercedes--this time focusing on the powertrain, with cutaway diagrams of the...
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Full Details, Gallery For 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG
Mercedes has given us the outlines before, but today we get the full whammy.
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Beyonce Almost Earns Her Halo For Real-Real
This, friends, is a cautionary tale, and one that makes it all too clear that the world would be a better place if everyone drove supercars. Lend an ear. Last week, Beyonce and hubby Jay-Z were tooling around London in a Mercedes-Benz S-Class. (Clearly, his love affair with the Jaguar XJ has gone...
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Mercedes Sedans Choose Suicide Over Cradling Charlie Sheen's Keester
And so it came to pass, in the year of Our Lady Gaga 03 (commonly known as 2010), a plague settled upon the House of Sheen. The Patriarch (commonly known as Charlie) was beset by lawsuits and community theatre, and at some point, his automobiles launched a revolt. In layman's terms: a Mercedes...
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2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe Preview
Mercedes-Benz has some major changes in store for its product line over the coming years, with several key models receiving facelifts and complete name changes. We have already seen this with the new 2010 E-Class Coupe, which has replaced the CLK, and soon we will see the CL name phased out with...
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Possible reasons that Charlie Sheen is smiling in the photo at the link below: 1. That whole business about his Mercedes S-Class tumbling over a cliff under very suspicious circumstances has been mostly forgotten. 2. The guy already has a new Mercedes sedan in his driveway. 3. As part of Sheen's community service for threatening to give his wife what-for on Christmas morning (just like at grandma's house!) he'll be working in community theatre. 4. That community theatre is located in Aspen, Colorado. 5. He will not be required to watch any community theatre productions as part of that gig...
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Mercedes-Benz Gets All Name-Droppy (We Know: SHOCKING)
We get weird things in the mail: love letters, bomb threats, talcum powder that's pretending to be anthrax, except it smells like diaper rash, so, you know, FAIL. We also get press releases. Press releases are frequently dull, occasionally informative, and nine times out of ten, hilarious. But one...
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Sean Connery's S-Class Sedan Is A Little Off-Kilter
So apparently, there was some sort of Scottish thing in New York last week: Sean Connery played host to the 7th Annual Dressed To Kilt fashion show at New York City's M2 Ultra Lounge this week. The charity show featured celebrities and athletes wearing Scottish designs and included runway...
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Dealers Fearful Of All-Hybrid Mercedes-Benz S-Class Range
According to Mercedes-Benz dealer sources, news that the automaker is considering an all-hybrid lineup for its next-generation S-Class is true. A Mercedes-Benz spokesman admitted to MotorAuthority.com last week that an all-hybrid S-Class lineup was under serious consideration, though nothing had...
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2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class To Get New Twin-Turbo V-8, Possible All-Hybrid Lineup
Mercedes-Benz has told Motor Authority some of its plans for the coming S-Class mid-cycle refresh.
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2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Preview
AMG has a new sledgehammer V-8 and it’s set to debut in the 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG, which goes on sale this September. Thanks to the new engine, the latest S63 AMG offers more power and torque than in the previous year yet it consumes significantly less fuel--25 percent less, according to...
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The facelifted Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is due next year.
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2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Keeps The Name, Goes 5.5-liter Turbo
The new Mercedes-Benz S63 will feature a smaller turbo engine despite wearing the 6.3 badge.
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Charlie Sheen's Mercedes Follows His Career Path To Bottom Of Ravine
Well, this doesn't sound suspicious AT ALL: A car that plunged down the side of Mulholland Drive on Friday morning is owned by actor Charlie Sheen, who reported the vehicle stolen, authorities said. Sheen called police about 5:15 a.m. to report a possible burglar on the premises of his Sherman Oaks...
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Rendered: 2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe
The current C216 CL was first introduced at the end of 2006 but prototypes for the facelifted version had been spotted testing in Germany as early as August last year.
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Mercedes-Benz SPLITVIEW Technology Coming to S-Class At L.A. Auto Show
The SPLITVIEW screen system allows two different images to be shown at once from a single screen.
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