C-Class


Mercedes-Benz pondering C-Class production in Alabama?

The C-Class is Mercedes-Benz's biggest seller Stateside, and a report in a Stuttgart newspaper indicates the company could be looking to stabilize the revenue from its bread-and-butter sedan. The C-Class is currently produced in Sindelfingen, Germany, and that makes it prey to currency swings on the trip across the pond. If Mercedes transferred production to its plant in Vance, Alabama, the company would also pay lower labor costs than it does in Europe. The Alabama plant currently makes the M, GL, and R-Class vehicles. In March of this ... Read more →

AMG-fettled Mercedes E-Class Coupe to favor agility over power? Jonny Lieberman

Exact details are few and far between, but for those that value handling over tire-smoking POWA, this is great news. Autocar is reporting that the next AMG-fettled Mercedes-Benz E-Class will rely ...

2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe a C-Class underneath? Chris Shunk

The Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe is all-new for 2010, with sleeker, sportier proportions and improved efficiency and performance. The E-Class also weighs 400 pounds less than its sedan ...

Review: 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Sam Abuelsamid

What a difference 20 inches and 1,000 lbs makes. The latest occupant of the Autoblog Garage is the Mercedes Benz C63 AMG. You might recall that a few months ago we tried out one of the big dogs ...

Wald C-Class Black Bison Edition scares us... really Drew Phillips

Click above for a high resolution image We usually try and reserve judgment when it comes to aftermarket styling packages. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and different people prefer ...

Mercedes unveils new range of diesel four-cylinders 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the new M-B four-pot diesels. With lots of AMG goodness on the road and in the pipeline, something's got to balance out Mercedes-Benz' carbon footprint. So M-B announced today that it's releasing a new range of four-cylinder diesel mills that balances ...

Frankfurt 2007: BRABUS Bullit, live and brutally insane 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the pic above for more high-res shots of the BRABUS Bullit. The term "sleeper" isn't quite accurate when referring to the BRABUS Bullit. It has presence, with an air of understated brutality. The aero mods speak volumes about its predilection for sinister speed, and the V12 emblems flanking ...

Frankfurt 2007: Mercedes C-Class wagon arrives in BLUETEC Hybrid form 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for updated gallery of media and live pics var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Mercedes_Benz_C300_BLUETEC_Hybrid_station_wagon_rolls_out_in_Frankfurt'; Mercedes, so far, has had the biggest stage production of any manufacturer here in Frankfurt. It was so big they needed to ...

BRABUS punches up the Mercedes-Benz C220 CDI 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for gallery BRABUS has announced its D3 S POWER XTRA tuning kit for Mercedes-Benz's new C220 CDI sedan. The Euro-market oil-burner sees a marked improvement in performance after installation, with power jumping from 168 hp/295 lb-ft to 217 horses and a stout 354 lb-ft of torque. On the ...

Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sports Coupe 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image to enlarge The Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sport Coupe never really caught on here in the US, and it was ultimately dumped from the automaker's Stateside lineup. It has lived on in Europe, however, and it will be updated to bring it closer in appearance to the all-new W204 C-Class sedan. The ...

Mercedes BLK takes aim at 1-series 2 years ago on Autoblog

To hear some people talk, you'd be forgiven for thinking BMW's 1-Series has already won the compact luxury segment and retired to the hearth with a glass of celebratory Riesling. And it hasn't even come to America yet. In spite of the 1's much hyped and much anticipated arrival, it will still have ...

Guessing Game: AMG website hints at impending new model 2 years ago on Autoblog

Those octane junkies in Affalterbach never seem to tire of developing new, more powerful engines and shoehorning them into everything with four wheels and a three-pointed star. The Mercedes AMG website is featuring a cryptic bit of flash animation that shows the back end of an unknown new product ...

Mercedes-Benz C-Class US pricing announced 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for a high res gallery of the US-spec C-Class. For those of you that either want to upgrade your current Benz or finally make the leap into German luxury sedans, Mercedes released pricing for the US-bound C-Class, and the cost of entry is approximately $2,200 less than the ...

Spy Shot: 2008 C-Class Estate 2 years ago on Autoblog

World Car Fans has a new round of C-Class Estate spy shots, this time with even less camo. This batch of photos reveals almost the entire car except for the rear, where plastic obscures the details. Mercedes engineers even seem to have cooperated with the photographer, parking a C-Class sedan next ...

Rendered speculation: Mercedes A-class 2 years ago on Autoblog

When Mercedes decided to aim for the entry-level luxury market in the U.S., the best they could come up with was the C230 Sport, which, because of an anemic powertrain and a high cost of ownership, never quite made it into primetime. In Europe, the A-class subcompact pseudo-minivan hasn't caught ...

Car magazine gets the skinny on the Audi RS5 2 years ago on Autoblog

Although it's certainly no secret, Car magazine is reporting that Audi engineers are hard at work developing the uber-5. Set to go head-to-head with its Teutonic rivals the M3 and C63; the new RS5 is expected to pack a 450 HP punch when it hits the market in the first half of 2008. The 4.2-liter V8 ...

AMG C63: 450 HP C-Class at your service 2 years ago on Autoblog

After several other tuners have had their say, AMG finally checks in with a horsepower number for the C63: 450. By comparison, the E63 AMG gets 507 hp and takes $83K to become part of the family. The C63 AMG will cost about $20K less, so in order not to offend its bigger brother (and their owners), ...

Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG 2 years ago on Autoblog

Following the unveiling of the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class, we all knew it wouldn't be long before AMG would have their turn at the new baby Benz. Sure enough, spy photos have begun hitting the internet, showing the next C63 AMG undergoing testing at the fabled Nurburgring. Set to face off against the ...

C-class tunage: Kicherer K35 CS 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image for high-res version For some people in the market for a hairy-chested C-Class, the AMG-fettled C63 and any Brabus option will be too obvious. For them it's Kircherer to the rescue, with its new C-Class sledgehammer, the K35 CS. Kircherer has upped the antes on both the gasoline ...

New York Auto Show: 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class US debut 2 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: New live shots added to the gallery! Click on the photo to see a live gallery of the US debut of the new C-Class Mercedes-Benz took the wraps off of the 2008 C-Class for the first time in the United States at the New York Auto Show yesterday. The US version has a choice of 3.0L and 3.5L 24V ...

New York Preview: Mercedes-Benz reveals new 2008 C-Class for U.S. 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image for 39 high-res pics of the US-spec 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Merecedes-Benz just dumped a whole lot of details about the new US-spec C-Class in our laps, including data and pics. You can read all of the stats on the next page, but the important bits are right here. There will be ...

Brabus does the new C-Class 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click for hi-res gallery Brabus never fails to deliver tuned Mercedes-Benz cars and trucks that pack a wallop underhood and looks to match. If the car wears Brabus badging, chances are it's going to walk the walk. This is the case with the just-announced Brabus C-Class tuning program. When ...

Lorinser takes on the new Merc C-class 2 years ago on Autoblog

The C-class is the entry-level Benz in the North American market. As such, every nouveau riche new graduate seemingly goes out and treats themselves to a slice of flashy bourgeois pie. That can be alarming for the Euro-car fan, as you risk being lumped into that precocious category along with ...

US-market C-Class to receive more "aggressive" look 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for a gallery of the recently-revealed C-Class In a report published earlier last week by Automotive News, Mercedes-Benz USA president and CEO Ernst Lieb told the industry mag that when the newly-unveiled C-Class arrives in the US this September, it'll sport a more aggressive look than ...

Official 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class brochure leaked on web 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view entire high-res gallery of brochure The official brochure for the 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class has surfaced over on the German Car Zone forums, and it reveals in full production glory the car that we've seen countless times in spy shots over the past year. The first thing ...

Wiper woes: Mercedes-Benz recalls 130,000 vehicles in Germany 2 years ago on Autoblog

After a rough few years full of significant recalls, Mercedes-Benz appeared (or appears, depending on your perspective) to be getting its act together by successfully addressing its quality issues. The automaker just announced a major recall in Germany involving 130,000 vehicles windshield wiper ...

Spy Shots: 2008 Mercedes-Benz C-Class 3 years ago on Autoblog

To be totally honest, when we heard that there were new shots of the Mercedes Benz C-Class floating around the webiverse, we didn't pay much attention. We've seen so damn many of them over the past few months that more pics of the camo'd four-door sedan are hardly enough to get our attention ...

New Cadillac CTS will be offered in a variety of flavors 3 years ago on Autoblog

When Cadillac launched the CTS in 2003, its sights were aimed squarely on the BMW 3-series and its cross-town counterpart, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Since then, the CTS carved out a sizable niche in the market, with sales normally hovering around 50,000 to 60,000 per year. Cadillac is expected to ...

Spy Shots: Best look yet at Mercedes C-Class 3 years ago on Autoblog

Despite Photoshop renderings leading us astray, we're beyond certain this is the best view yet of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz C-Class. WorldCarFans reports that the amateur shots it's hosting were taken when a pair of C-Class mules pulled over on the Autobahn because one of them had stalled. In order ...

First official shots of Mercedes-Benz C-Class? 3 years ago on Autoblog

The Car Connection's TCC Confidential blog claims to have received in its email box this morning some pics of the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class that expose what the car will look like when it's officially unveiled at next year's Geneva Motor Show. Hmm... we're going to go out on a limb here and say ...

Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG 3 years ago on Autoblog

As the horsepower wars rage on, the AMG team saw fit to stuff the 4-valve DOHC 6.2-liter V8 into its entry-level sedan and create the C63 AMG. With 475 hp being created at 6,800 rpm and 465 lb.-ft. of torque at 5,000 rpm, Stuttgart's luxury brand is seeking to give the RS4 and soon to be released M3 ...

Captured: Next Mercedes C-Class wagon 3 years ago on Autoblog

The next Mercedes-Benz C-Class wagon has been snagged testing in Germany. Seen underneath the standard cloak-and-dagger spyshooter eveningwear is a cautiously evolutionary shape that could only carry the three-pointed star. That said, the perennial entry-level luxury player rides on an entirely ...

Spy Shots: 2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG 3 years ago on Autoblog

M3 who? Sorry BMW, you're gonna to have to equip the next M3 with more than just a 400-hp V8 if you hope to keep up with MB's upcoming C63 AMG. We've seen enough spy shots of the garden variety C-Class than we care to admit, but there's something about a car in camo sporting a 6.2L V8 producing a ...

Mercedes tops reliability report 3 years ago on Autoblog

According to the German automotive association ADAC, Mercedes-Benz vehicles are the most reliable among the German brands. The C-Class, CLK-Class, E-Class, M-Class, S-Class, and the SLK-Class all took top spots in the association's latest report, more than any other German automaker. The ADAC was ...






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