Over the last 20 years, new car fuel economy, horsepower, and torque have all risen dramatically. Driven by these significant increases, many modern cars including Mercedes-Benz now require or recommend premium gasoline, while many older Mercedes…

Traveling from San Francisco to Big Sur, one can find a heady mix of some of the best twisty roads, scenery and country club profiling opportunities the world has to offer. The Mercedes AMG GT C makes the journey effortless; it is a weapons-grade…

ercedes-Benz introduced the W220 S-Class in 1999 as a complete departure from more Teutonic designs of decades past. This new flagship would be both efficient and luxurious, and was hailed as a technological marvel upon its release. Throughout the…

Seventy years ago, the Mexican government determined to celebrate the completion of the Pan-American Highway with a race. Starting in Ciudad Juarez, situated just across the border from El Paso, the route followed the newly-paved roadway south…

By its third running in 1952, La Carrera Panamericana had earned a reputation as a demanding and exciting motor race for drivers and spectators alike. Also known as the Mexican Road Race, it was created in 1950 to promote Mexico’s link in a highway…

Onthe short list of the most glamorous cars ever built is the Mercedes-Benz 500K Special Roadster. Its flowing lines and elegant persona attracted celebrities and royalty. The example shown here, on display at the National Automobile Museum in Reno…

This is the fascinating history of Stuttgart’s superb engines and the sporting supercars they powered in the 1920s and early 1930s. Although these monstrously capable machines are often nicknamed “Porsche-Mercedes”, in fact this tells less than the…

Serving their country during the cold war, in 1982 Major George Newman, U.S. Army Field Artillery and Major Jane Newman of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps were stationed in West Germany. George was assigned to the 3rd Armored Division in Hanau; Jane  was…

Many of us have seen dashboard camera video on social media, and usually it shows something hilarious, frightening, or both. But dash cams are about much more than impressing your friends. For liability and prosecution protection, all drivers should…

Winter is a special time for Mercedes-Benz enthusiasts of all kinds. For some of us, the dark months are a time to undertake projects–to fix that last nagging thing that doesn't quite work right, or just to relax with a good book by the fire. But…