Author Archives: Yoav Gilad

Disadvantaged Community of Palo Alto, CA to Receive Child Transportation Service from MB

„Boost by Mercedes-Benz“ – hochklassiger Fahrservice für

In what can only be described as a purely altruistic gesture, Mercedes-Benz is rolling out a new service in the California slum of Palo Alto. The program is designed to help parents who are too busy waiting for venture capital funding to come through or purchasing food at the local organic, farm-to-table co-op (cause, you […]

Tech Tuesday: C6 Key Fob Lock Out

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2008+ Lock Out Is your battery dead? Don’t know what to do? Read on… Your key fob contains a traditional key inside it. To get it out of the key fob press down on the button circled in the photo below, while pulling the silver top out. If there is a lot of resistance, depress […]

2015 Mercedes-Benz C-class Exposed!

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The 2015 MB C-class has been revealed! Not officially, though, these photos were leaked on a Spanish website. As expected the car mimics the brand new CLA’s styling with a strong descending bone line and an upswept light catcher above the rockers both of which lead the eye back along the car’s flanks creating a […]

Edition 1 to Lead the Way for GLA

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Mercedes-Benz is going to launch the GLA with a limited run of Edition 1 models just as it did with the related CLA. The crossover GLA will be available for order beginning later next month. The Edition 1 available from launch will only stick around for a year and brings Edition 1-limited design touches and […]

Scion iQ: Road Trip!

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Scion was launched as a company that builds relatively small and practical, economical cars. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, Scion introduced the iQ, its smallest offering, to the US market in 2010. Obviously, there is a reason that city cars are so small—parking spaces are rare and tight, streets are cramped, and the ability to [...]

Grand Prix Recap–Podium for Mercedes-Benz

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…But not first place. The Indian GP yesterday saw reigning champ Sebastian Vettel clinch the F1 championship, his fourth in a row. Tires were an issue once again as the soft options suffered from early degradation affecting all drivers except Sebastian Vettel. Who, of course, qualified on the pole. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas cars were strong […]

And Now For Something Completely Different: Financial Analysis Predicts Gloom and Doom for Harley

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A few days before the Moco’s rosy quarterly earning statement dropped, a starkly different report predicting Harley-Davidson’s insolvency was released by an independent site. The opinion comes from Idea Mechanic, and while the tiny site is less than two months old, its PDF regarding HD’s future was spot on in several cases. Yes, the target demographic is […]