Category: Mercedes-Benz

For the 2021 season the Mercedes E-Class Coupe has had a solid overhaul with an emphasis on sporting look and upgrades in many departments. For a start it has the AMG Line body-enhancement pack that was once an option is now standard in all variants. Meaning that you get the looks of a sporting coupe but can opt for the Comfort settings if that’s more your style of things. STYLINGMercedes E-Class Coupe is a long handsome machine that gained some envious looks on several occasions during our week’s road test…. Read more

Who’d have thought it? Mercedes-Benz, that automotive innovator, that made its name catering for the well-to-do of this world with large luxury vehicles, now continues to carve a niche with small cars. With the recent arrival of the GLB-Class, this brings to six the number of models in the Mercedes compact car portfolio, which includes the A-Class hatchback and sedan, B-Class, CLA Coupe and GLA compact SUV. Britta Seeger, Daimler AG management board member, responsible for Benz car sales says: “Every third Mercedes-Benz is now an SUV, every fourth a… Read more

Australia and Mercedes-Benz recently became a lot closer with the shift of Aussie driver Daniel Ricciardo to the McLaren Formula One race team, powered by the German giant’s engines. Now Benz has combined the sophisticated technology of race circuit performance with off-the-beaten-track advantages in the GLA crossover SUV. And it’s arrived in the land Down Under. Consisting of four variants – GLA 200, GLA 250 4Matic, GLA 35 4Matic and GLA 45 S 4Matic+. GLA-Class is powered by two turbo-petrol four-cylinder engines – a 1.3-litre unit putting out 120 kW… Read more

Mercedes-Benz continues to play the numbers game with its GLE family SUV range, adding ’53’ to the list – and, ‘bingo’ it comes up a winner. The new AMG GLE 53 4Matic+ sports utility coupe’s performance belies its bulk. It has more cabin space, but a shorter wheelbase makes for greater agility, more aerodynamic than the model it replaces. It uses the Mercedes’ MBUX widescreen digital display. Squeezing in between the GLE 450 4Matic Coupe ($137,000, plus ORCs) and the GLE 63S AMG 4Matic+ Coupe ($222,700), the middleweight GLE 53… Read more

Middle-of-the-road, according to the Macquarie dictionary, can mean ‘between extremes’ or ‘moderate’. The latter certainly does not apply to the Mercedes-Benz CLA 35 AMG 4Matic Coupe. The road travelled by the new four-door coupe may be in the middle of the CLA range but it is far from ordinary. How about a sprint to 100 km/h from a standing start in 4.7 seconds on the way to an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h? The source of such performance is a 2.0-litre four-cylinder twin-scroll turbocharged petrol engine putting out… Read more