2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Gets Priced, Surprisingly Less

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is the automaker’s purest expression of luxury, and now we know just how much owning this luxury will cost. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 is powered by a 4.7-liter twin-turbocharged V-8, good for 455 hp, and most surprisingly the S550 will start at more than $2,000 less than the previous model, at $93,825. The new model is slightly more fuel efficient, and offers more power over the previous engine...

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Mercedes-Benz Plans to Join Autonomous Car Race with Self-Driving Technology

Mercedes-Benz is publicly stating it would like to have a self-driving, autonomous car produced this decade. Building on the Mercedes-Benz Intelligent Drive suite of advanced safety technologies that include semi-autonomous driving capability, the automaker is hoping to develop a fully autonomous driving vehicle. At the launch of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Mercedes engineers indicated that the technology wasn’t the issue, but rather...

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Audi TDI Rally: We Drive the 2014 Audi A6, A7, Q5 Diesel Model

In the U.S., gasoline-powered vehicles reign, but Audi is part of a growing contingent of automakers leading the case for diesel-powered vehicles in America. Diesel cars are expected to account for six to eight percent of the U.S. market by 2015, with that number expected to grow to more than 10 percent by 2025, when automakers are expected to have more fuel efficient fleets under government regulations.   At a recent panel we...

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Watch this Nissan GT-R Nismo attack the 'Ring

Following yesterday's spy photos of the Nissan GT-R Nismo at the Nürburgring, we've been informed that some intrepid spies have captured video of Super Godzilla lapping the track. We aren't sure which turn the first clip is showing, but the second and third are almost certainly the tough right-hander known as Bergwerk. Like the current GT-R, the Nismo, even with what might be a new exhaust system, isn't a vehicle that sounds particularly...

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Evo grabs Ford's Fiesta R5 rally car by the scruff

 Evo and host Henry Catchpole were thinking of excuses reasons to borrow the bonkers Ford Fiesta R5 rally car for a day or two, when it struck them: the car is street legal. With access to the R5, some of the world's most beautiful driving roads in the English Lake Country nearby, and a handy video crewing hanging around, the plan seemed to write itself. Based on the resulting video, it was a good plan. Without spoiling the video for...

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Translogic gets inside look at Terrafugia Transition flying car

It was only a month ago when Terrafugia took its Transition flying car (or driving plane, as CEO Carl Dietrich says) to the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for some exposure and its first public flight demonstration. We know the flight was a success, but Translogic was also there to get an inside look at the street-legal flying machine and capture it on video. Dietrich says that the toughest part of building the Transition was...

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Leaked – Production-spec BMW i8 shows its interior!

While some of you may have just watched the BMW i8 teaser video, a couple of images of the hybrid supercar have leaked on the internet. These are the first official production-spec images of the i8 and one of these images lifts the veil on the interior. Sci-fi interiors? You bet! While the gearshifter, iDrive controller and the Start/Stop button may seem to have come from any other BMW in the range, the rest of the interior looks really...

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