Word around town is that Mercedes Benz expects 20 percent of its new car sales to be hybrid vehicles by 2015, and will embark upon a program of launching a new hybrid model every year from 2009 onwards to help it achieve this goal.

Tightening emissions and fuel economy legislation - and an increased awareness of environmental [...]

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Ahead of its Beijing Motor Show debut this weekend, official images and details of the Mercedes-Benz GLK have been leaked onto the internet – a process that is becoming de rigueur.

Arguably the first handsome SUV to be produced by the German manufacturer, the GLK will be going toe to toe with the likes of [...]

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Having only recently released details of their Vision GLK Freeside Compact SUV “Concept”, Mercedes Benz have now released the preview video. Due to take its first bow at the Detroit Motor Show in a few days time the Freeside Compact uses a four-cylinder 2.2-litre Bluetec diesel, with an output of 125 kW/170 hp running through [...]

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Mercedes Benz have officially released details of their new Vision GLK Freeside Compact SUV “Concept”, although it is fairly obvious to even the casual observer that this is a production ready version of the upcoming GLK and the term concept is being used with some degree of poetic license. According to the MB press release [...]

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