This month marks another milestone in Daimler’s car2go car-sharing service, as Milan gets to enjoy a fleet of 450 smart fortwo vehicles slated to be fully available by the middle of September.
While the smart eco-friendly vehicle brand certainly isn’t the biggest moneymaker in the Daimler stable, those vehicles together with the car2go platform allows the German automaker to make good on its promise of delivering sustainable automotive solutions, particularly for urban mobility applications that are focused upon by car2go.
For this week’s AMG Monday Morning Wake-Up Call, we’re going loud with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series as it makes the Pacific Northwest’s wet roads sizzle. Mercedes says the SLS AMG Black is their “purest example of driving performance [...] ever.” In this Epic Drives video, presenter Arthur St. Antoine would likely agree with Mercedes; [...]
Mercedes-Benz has been caught testing camouflaged prototypes of its second-generation 2016 GLK-Class. The next GLK will be based on the all-new C-Class for 2015, which will share more components with the E-Class platform, meaning more engine variety under the bonnet. Here’s a specific benefit of this cross-platform sharing: Car and Driver says Mercedes is mulling a [...]
This sick CLK63 AMG Black Series was spotted at a recent Airstrip Attack event by the guys at Speedhunters. Weistec Engineering put everything they had into this car: The engine was removed, given a complete tear-down and then was blueprinted and rebuilt with forged pistons, billet rods and new bearings. The heads were also CNC [...]
Featured on this Photo of the Week post is a neat-looking Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG on a set of ADV15TFs from ADV.1. These wheels have a meticulously engineered appearance that few other brands can match, and when mounted to a C63 AMG, they heighten the bahnstormer’s brutish demeanor. Our sponsor Acute Performance posted this set of pics [...]
You get to know a car really well when you see it pieced together at the factory. Think of it like witnessing a person being conceived, or birthed — it’s a very intimate experience. In this video, we get intimate with the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class as it goes from a shell, to a rolling masterpiece [...]
Have you ever seen exhaust grow? No? Well, then, as Captain Oveur in Airplane! asked, “You ever seen a grown man naked?” Thanks to the wonders of thermal heat expansion, vehicle exhaust systems do, in fact, grow significantly as their temperatures increase. Thanks to the wonders of forum member fly2nite‘s documentation skills and curiosity, we can now see [...]