• Mercworld’s first birthday

    03 December 2007

    Join Mercedes at Brooklands this weekend for cake, Stirling Moss, and the chance to ride in a Mercedes SLR McLaren

    Mercedes-Benz World will be celebrating its first birthday this weekend, and you’re invited.  Although officially the anniversary was last week, it’ll be this Saturday and Sunday (3-4 November) that...

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  • RML SLR 722 GT (2007): first official pictures

    30 October 2007 by Ben Pulman

    Yet another McLaren Mercedes special edition SLR? It’s another special edition, but it's nothing to do with Mercedes, apparently. Northamptonshire-based RML (Ray Mallock Ltd) have tweaked the SLR for...

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  • Mercedes’ new E-class scooped

    09 October 2007 by Ben Pulman

    Merc's new E-class arrives in 2009, and should be very, very clean. Merc's Bluetec technology, which squirts urea (basically the toxins found in your pee) into the exhaust to cut NOx emissions...

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  • Mercedes-Benz F700

    11 September 2007 by Ben Pulman

    So, another big lumbering Mercedes saloon then? Not a bit of it. Although the F700 might be 5.17m long – somewhere between the S-class and long-wheelbase S-class – the F700 is supposedly cleaner and...

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  • Brooklands Centenary

    12 June 2007 by CAR magazine

    Brooklands Centenary Festival: the lowdown The world’s first purpose-built race track will celebrate 100 years of motorsport this weekend - 100 years to the day after opening its banked turns in 1907.

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  • Mercedes C-class shown

    09 March 2007 by Tim Pollard

    Mercedes Vision C220 Bluetec: the lowdown Mercedes' bigger, better and cleaner new C-class hogged centre stage at the DaimlerChrysler stand. The C is the bedrock of Merc's range and the company rolled...

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  • Mercedes design boss speaks out

    22 January 2007 by Tim Pollard

    We spoke to Mercedes design boss Peter Pfeiffer at the recent Detroit Motor Show – and asked him about the future strategy at the Stuttgart company. What’s the point of the Ocean Drive concept? We...

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  • Mercedes plots McLaren buyout

    04 October 2006 by Georg Kacher

    DaimlerChrysler is planning a bid for the McLaren Group, to gain full control of its F1 operation and production of the SLR supercar. CAR Online asked DC boss Dieter Zetsche if he was considering...

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  • Super-Mercs storm in

    29 September 2006 by Ben Whitworth

    Mercedes pulled the wraps off not one but two muscle-bound AMG monsters at the Paris show – the CL63 and S63. Powered by AMG’s formidable 6.3-litre V8 that pumps out 525bhp at a screaming 6800rpm and...

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