New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz A200 CDI

As happens quite often these days, following the range-topping (and more expensive) sporty A250, the absolute pick of the new A-Class range is the humble diesel variant; the A200 CDI. Why? Well, it really comes down to one thing; torque, and the A200CDI’s wonderful spread of its big, fat lump of torque that sees it […]

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Speedshow photo gallery

The CRC Speedshow was on this past weekend and, as with previous years, just keeps getting bigger and better every year. The sheer range of incredible cars on show is staggering, and the amount of interesting stuff to spend vast amounts of money on in between the cars is more than a little tempting. OVERSTEER […]

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Mercedes power for Williams F1

The Williams F1 Team and Mercedes-Benz are pleased to announce the signature of a long-term engine partnership from the 2014 Formula One World Championship season onwards. Under the terms of the agreement, Williams will be supplied with a Mercedes-Benz Power Unit (Internal Combustion Engine plus Energy Recovery System) by Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) […]

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Local SLS AMG Black Series price announced

Got a lazy half a mil lying about? Better start checking down the side of the couch then, because Mercedes-Benz has just announced the price of the Black Series version of the SLS AMG Coupe. NZ$528,150 will get your necessarily narrow buttocks wedged into the SLS Black Series’ racing seat and it will no doubt […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Mercedes-Benz A-Class

The Mercedes-Benz A-Class was once a funny little people mover-shaped car that fell over at the sight of a Moose, but now it isn’t. It is a far, far better car than it has ever been before too. We head to Melbourne to check it out. What is it? This is almost certainly the question […]

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New Cars Quick Drives

QUICK DRIVE: Mercedes-Benz B250

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz B250 The Mercedes-Benz B250 is a hard car to get your head around. On one hand you have the upright, mini-people mover body and slightly, well, grandmotherly styling. But on the other hand you have the noticeably lower ride height, big wheels and the quite frankly silly 155kW/350Nm engine lurking under […]

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Mercedes unveils CSC

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the new Concept Style Coupe (CSC) it will show at next week’s Beijing motor show. The mini-CLS four-door “coupe” shown here previews the new CLA, the A-class based sedan that will go on sale sometime next year, confirming that Mercedes is taking the shift of its smallest car away from the model’s […]

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You Wouldn’t Mess With This Hairdresser…

What do you get if you combine 1,000Nm of torque, 463kW of power and a serious lack of taste? Possibly the hairiest hairdresser’s car on the planet. Mercedes-Benz have just released details of the completely silly SL65 AMG, a convertible packing AMG’s colossal 6-litre twin-turbo V12 engine. Along with the new face, the uber-SL now […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz C250 CDI

With the facelift of the current W204 iteration of the C-class, Mercedes-Benz has taken what was already a very good car and simply made it better. This sounds like a fairly sensible thing to do with a new model, but you would be surprised how many times it doesn’t work that way. Not with the […]

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