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Mercedes-Benz Leaks First S-Class Picture
Apparently somebody “accidentally” uploaded this photo to Mercedes-Benz’s Austrian website. In this day and age of the internet, “leaks” are always suspect, but the next S-Class was slated to be...
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Mercedes-Benz S-Class Brochure Leaked
A little light reading for the weekend? Someone went and scanned a German language version of the all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class brochure. Bertel’s preoccupied at Nissan right now, so other folks with...
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Say Bye To Maybach, Hello To Pullman
Just as Mercedes prepares to do away with one historic nameplate, it appears to be reviving another. The flagship of the next-generation S-Class range will wear the Pullman badge. Pullman historically...
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Audi to Go After S Klasse and 7 Series More Directly With Next A8
Bloomberg is reporting that Audi will reveal the next A8 sedan at the upcoming Frankfurt auto show in September and that Ingolstadt’s flagship will more get upgrades so it can more effectively compete...
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Cain’s Segments April 2014: Luxury Flagships
The impact of Mercedes-Benz’s W222 S-Class has been keenly felt in America’s luxury car sector. The S-Class’s most direct rivals have been shunned in favour of the venerable Benz over the last seven...
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Pullman Muzik
Those of you among the B&B that listen to rap – so, myself and the assorted friends of mine who read the site – better get used to a new name in luxury automobiles: Pullman. These patent...
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Mercedes-Benz’s S-Class Is Selling Like It’s 2007
Mercedes-Benz USA has already sold more copies of the all-conquering S-Class in 2014 than in the full calendar years of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. By the end of October, Mercedes-Benz USA’s...
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Cain’s Segments: January Sales Of Flagship Luxury Cars
Mercedes-Benz USA’s S-Class outsold its next-best-selling rival by more than two-to-one in January 2015. S-Class volume jumped 22% from the level achieved in January 2014, a year-ago period in which...
View ArticleChart of the Day: America’s Favorite Expensive Vehicles in 2015’s First Six...
So many upper-crust products sit at the top of their respective automaker’s lineup and do little more than look pretty. They are flagships, technological showcases, standard bearers. On the other hand,...
View ArticleThe Saudi Royals Ride In Benzes and Escalades, Not Audis
Notwithstanding Remy’s hugely popular Saudis in Audis rap video, it appears that Saudi Arabian King Salman and his entourage prefer Stuttgart and Detroit to Ingolstadt. The King and his retinue arrived...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1986 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEL, Bubba’s Cab Edition
The Mercedes-Benz W126 S-Class was the king of 1980s sedans and it sold very well in the United States. You’ll still see plenty of them on the street today and it’s rare that a California self-service...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz Updates the S-Class With More of Everything for 2018
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the refreshed S-Class at the Shanghai Motor Show, and every model in the lineup receives a laundry list of upgrades for 2018. While technological conveniences remain the...
View ArticleQOTD: What’s Your Favorite German Car From the 1990s?
Ah the Nineties. Lots of cylinders, reliable new technology, and wide-track styling. But enough about Pontiac and the 3800 V6, because we’re talking today about German cars from the era. Which German...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Sports/Luxury Mercedes-Benz 6.9 of 1979
It’s time to check out the flagship of a flagship. What happens when an S-Class is cross-pollinated with the largest V8 engine Mercedes-Benz can offer, then loaded up with cutting-edge automotive tech?...
View ArticleAudi Planning Luxurious A8 to Rival Mercedes-Maybach, Resurrection of Horch...
Audi’s fourth-generation A8 sedan is the pinnacle of the brand’s opulence, so long as you’re willing to ignore every model that begins with the letter R and the forthcoming Q8. Starting at $83,800...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: V12 Luxury Coupes to Drain Your Wallet in 1993
They’re big, expensive, luxurious, and have 12 cylinders sitting under their long hoods. All of them will deplete your checkbook in multiple ways, but you can only take one home with you. What’s it...
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Big German Luxury Sedans of 1991
They’re large, expensive, and hail from a time when the sedan was king of the luxury pyramid. German exclusivity personified in three flagships — but which will you burn? BMW 735i The sporty one. BMW...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1992 Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL
Top-of-the-line German luxury sedans are worth plenty… until, suddenly, their values slam down to salvage-title Hyundai Scoupe territory. For today’s Junkyard Find, an early W140 S-Class that sold new...
View ArticleBolder, or Blander? Upcoming Mercedes-Benz S-Class Apparently Spied
A Spanish Instagram account seemingly leaked photos of an uncovered next-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class late Tuesday, showing off the flagship’s new face and caboose and revealing something far more...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz Axes a Pair of Two-doors
Long rumored to be on the chopping block, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class coupe and cabriolet are now confirmed to be heading into their last year of existence. The automaker confirmed the death sentence for...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 1991 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC, End of an Era
Today’s Rare Ride was the ultimate display of Germanic automotive wealth in the early Nineties. Always rarer than its sedan brother, the SEC was the S-Class with two doors and no pillars. Let’s check...
View ArticleRare Rides: A 2000 Mercedes-Benz S 600 Designo, Bespoke in Blue
In 2000, shortly before the ill-fated revival of the Maybach brand into a gauche purveyor of S-Class Baroque Editions, the 12-cylinder S 600 resided at the top of the Mercedes-Benz model hierarchy....
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