As a luxury automobile maker, Mercedes-Benz is known for sophisticated blends of technology and mechanics. We feel that particularly in the 21st century there is a stronger market emphasis on the comforts and features of a vehicle instead of the mechanical aspects. Improvements in the mechanical these days are primarily valued in so far as […]
Daylight Savings Time: How to Adjust
“Gee Willikers, Martha! Why do we have to change the clocks?” “Because it’s Daylight Savings Time, Herb. We spring forward and fall backward because it saves energy, or because it promotes shopping, or because it gave farmers more time to work, or because Ben Franklin invented it. I don’t know, Herb! Stop asking questions!” “Ham […]
Electric B-Class Readies for June Arrival
Ah, first looks. That first time you see a new model in its not-quite-finished prototype form and realize what a new and interesting thing it is. With the Mercedes-Benz B-class, you’ll have no need to worry about tensions between the lower and upper echelons of the Mercedes-Benz lineup as this is the automaker’s sole electric […]
Garrett McNamara Builds Surfboard with Mercedes-Benz
In vehicles, we’re familiar with certain values from Mercedes-Benz: comfort, performance, technology, safety and innovation, all that. While impressive, there is another element that we forget because we’re grown used to having excellent cars around us year-after-year. We’re referring to the wonder of what an automobile actually is: a gasoline-combusting machine that would have seemed […]
First Driving Impressions of the GLA-Class
When we last wrote about the GLA, it had just entered production in Germany, and we were looking forward to a spring arrival in the U.S. We now know, however, that the GLA250 4MATIC® and GLA45 AMG® will arrive in the fall, and the 250 in the spring of 2015. To herald their coming, however, […]