Category: Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz has been significantly reducing emissions and fuel consumption and emissions in all its vehicles for many years. Now the latest ultra-clean model has arrived in Australia, and the Mercedes E 300 Hybrid is the best of them all. This is the first car in Australia to combine electric hybrid technology with a diesel engine. At least one other maker sells diesel-electric hybrids in Europe, but their steering wheels are on the wrong side for Australia. To its great credit Mercedes-Benz Australia Pacific fought long and hard for this advanced… Read more

Mercedes has carried out an extensive redesign of its mid-sized E-Class coupe and cabriolet and at the same time has introduced an impressive all-new turbocharged V6 engine. Though the overall shape of the about to be superseded E-Class was very good, the frontal appearance was regarded as being overly complex by many critics. The new look is significantly neater and more attractive. We spent some time chatting to the chief designer, Robert Lesnik, during the global media launch in Germany and Denmark, where he explained how he had done this… Read more

Mercedes-Benz has given its E-Class a facelift together with a combination of price reductions and extra equipment additions that combine to improve their value, according to Benz, from $7000 to $23,000 depending on the model. Earlier this year we were able to preview the coupe and cabriolet versions of the E-Class models in their home territory. They’ll be arriving here late in the year but have been preceded by the more mainstream sedan and wagon variants. More mainstream they may be but in terms of styling the four and five-door… Read more

With a display of large scale theatre of the kind only Germany can produce we have just witnessed the global unveiling of the all new Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Picture this: a giant Airbus A380 passenger jet is in the background, a German ‘Stig’ in an SLS Gullwing is doing doughnuts on a soaking wet tarmac, a procession of all current model Mercs lines up to make a guard of honour. At the finale two all-new Mercedes S-Class saloons drive past their lesser brethren and onto the stage in front of an… Read more

If you wanted to bring a tear to the eyes of anyone at Mercedes-Benz Australia during the last few years all you had to do was ask about their range of compact SUVs – because there was no such thing as a compact Mercedes SUV. Arch rivals Audi and BMW were making big sales and equally big dollars by selling their Q3 and X1 and X3 respectively, but Mercedes had nothing smaller than the family-sized M-Class to sell. In Australia that is, because Mercedes-Benz has been making a compact SUV… Read more