The luxury vehicle segment in New Zealand has always been a two-way fight between BMW and Audi — but not this year. In 2015 Mercedes has stormed to the top of the sales charts, leaping over both the other Germans. Why? While the magnificent new C-Class sedan will have made up a significant part of […]
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For our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week we are thrilled to bring you the latest work from Kieran Roberts – “Victory Lines” From Kieran’s website: “The 1992 DTM championship winning Mercedes-Benz 190E of Klaus Ludwig. The earlier version of these cars were built in the early 80s for rallying. However, when Audi bought out the […]
For a while now Mercedes-Benz has lagged behind obvious rivals BMW and Audi in one key area — SUVs, particularly those in the fast-growing small and medium segments. But Mercedes are determined to fix that particular weak spot in the most German way possible — to jam as many different variants into as many segments […]
The lads from XCAR are at the Frankfurt motor show taking a look at the latest motors on show. Today we bring you their first crop of videos from the show – the reveal of the Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupe and the Rolls-Royce Dawn!
Quite how AMG manages to get a blistering 265kW out of a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine without it exploding into shrapnel after about ten minutes is staggering. How the also get it to be not only useable, but also relatively docile and tractable around town has, quite frankly, got us buggered. Needless to say, however, […]
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class was previously the smallest Benz you could get. But now an entire family based on the new A-Class has popped up below it in the range to take care of the “entry level” duties for the brand, leaving the C-Class to get on with its happy spread into both middle-age and mid-size […]
Clearly having a fleet of some of the sexiest and most expensive supercars in the world isn’t enough for the Dubai police department – now they are turning to pimped-out SUVs. They have just added a Brabus B63S-700 Widestar to the fleet. Packing a Brabus-tweaked 5.5-litre biturbo V8, the Brabus beast is good for 522kW […]
The Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG is an utter beast and it makes the kind of colossal noise that leaves you in no doubt of that whatsoever. To try and capture than noise, we attached a GoPro down by the exhaust and took it for a blast on a country road. This didn’t work, as the […]
Ever felt the urge to take your Mercedes for a quick drive over lunch, only to be thwarted when you remember that you don’t actually have a Mercedes? Well, Mercedes-Benz NZ are doing something that may just be a solution to your rather peculiar problem… MBNZ will be holding “Take the Wheel” events in central […]
The first thing you notice about the GL is that it is big. Very big. But don’t let that intimidate you, because lurking inside that huge, towering behemoth is a remarkably capable vehicle that literally does everything it can to help you handle the massive size. The second thing you notice about the GL is […]
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