Category: Mercedes-Benz

The sighs of relief from the chiefs at Mercedes-Benz Australia must have been heard all across Melbourne. The first shipment of the all-new Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class crossover SUV had finally reached the docks in Australia and big celebrations were underway. A silly planning decision from Mercedes’ head office was made a decade ago and the local branch of Mercedes has suffered ever since. That decision was to build the small-medium Mercedes-Benz GLK crossover SUV only with the steering wheel on the left hand side. Mercedes dealers in Australia, NZ, the UK… Read more

Mercedes-Benz C-Class is arguably the most important car in the ever expanding range of vehicles from the iconic German marque. Details of the all-new new C-Class have just been revealed. It has modern looks, low fuel consumption and emissions thanks to weight savings of up to 100 kilograms and either significantly revised or all-new engines. Though the C-Class is lighter, it’s also larger than ever. It probably comes as no surprise to Australians that Mercedes’ global research shows every new generation of people is larger than the one before. New… Read more

Look at a new Mercedes-Benz S-Class today and you’re getting a glimpse into the cars you may be driving yourself in five to ten years time. The timing depends on your budget, if you don’t have upwards of $215,000 in your automotive budget today, you will have to wait. But rest assured that many of the safety features in the big Benz will be standard in $14,990 cars one day. We have been watching the new S-Class carefully, starting with its launch in Hamburg, where we witnessed its spectacular global… Read more

As the introduction of the next generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class gets closer, the guys at AMG, the high-performance division of the iconic German marque, are working on a swan song for the last iteration of their most popular model. Indeed, they must already be hard at work on the all-new C-Class AMG – but are certainly not going to talk about that at this stage. ENGINE / TRANSMISSION The ‘507’ indicates the horsepower produced by the Mercedes-AMG 6.2-litre V8 engine. That’s 373 kW in Australian speak, though we don’t know if… Read more

Yet another class has been introduced to the Mercedes-Benz range in Australia. The CLA-Class is a baby brother to the CLS-Class, a model that has changed the landscape in stylish but reasonable practical car and brought on a host of imitators. ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS Mercedes AMG engineers have given us an amazing 355 horsepower from a 2.0-litre high-pressure petrol turbocharged engine. A powerplant that’s the most powerful four-cylinder mass production engine ever made. Sitting alongside the engine is a seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual gearbox that’s beefed up to provide ultra-fast… Read more

Low slung and sporty, the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA four-door coupe looks great The all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA adds yet another vehicle class to the ever growing range provided by the iconic German marque. Though it has the underpinnings of the third generation A-Class, the CLA isn’t a four-door sedan version of that very successful five-door hatch, but rather a four-door coupe. So the Mercedes-Benz CLA is a smaller Mercedes CLS four-door coupe, not a longer A-Class sedan. To some extent this decision wasn’t a voluntary one, because when they set out… Read more