BlueEfficiency

Post-global launch, in the August issue of CAR magazine I labelled the Mercedes-Benz E400 Coupe as the “quintessential mid-range coupe for buyers whose budgets don’t stretch much north of R1 million”. On Germany’s buttery smooth country roads, Benz’s revised two-door rode beautifully, performed ...

THE owner of the black Gallardo doesn’t look impressed. In a parking lot in Hout Bay, this usually crowd-drawing slice of Italian exotica is at the receiving end of the odd cursory glance as a small group of bystanders file past to have a look round the charcoal-grey Mercedes-Benz SL500 parked nearby. ...

Mercedes-Benz has equipped its CLS with a 2,1-litre turbodiesel engine. With “only” 150 kW it may not seem like the sort of engine best suited for a vehicle that has a kerb weight somewhere in the region of 1 735 kgs, but at the local launch, Kelly Lodewyks found that the output figures are ...

There’s one thing that bothers me with the B-Class, and that’s Mercedes Benz punting it as a pukka rival to conventional hatcbacks a la Golf and A3. After the recent launch in Durban I have very few reservations about the all-new W246 B-Class, which makes a lot of sense, considering that Mercedes-Benz ...