For years, businessmen and high-ranking officials choose executive cars such as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class or even Maybach counterparts as representatives of stature. These high rollers choose these cars for various reasons, but mostly for comfort and luxury. However, space has become one of the parameters …
Mercedes-Benz is credited for creating the first automobile in 1885, but it also claims the birth of a different type of vehicle: the truck. In 1896, Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, the company that merged with Benz & Cie Rheinische Automobil und Motorenfabrik to create Daimler-Benz AG in 1926, built …
Mercedes-Benz’s van-building division introduced a comprehensively updated Vito that gains better in-car technology, new turbodiesel engines and, in some markets, an available electric powertrain. The American-spec model, which is known as the Metris, will receive some of these improvements for the 2021 model year. Negligible …
Mercedes-Benz has updated the Vito van range for 2020, adding a handful of cosmetic revisions, a host of mechanical upgrades and, most importantly, a new all-electric drivetrain. The conventionally powered Vito will be available to order at the end of spring, with the electric eVito following …
The 2020 Mercedes-Benz Vito will get several updates, including an all-electric eVito Tourer passenger van version built using lessons from Mercedes’ eSprinter and eVito cargo haulers, as well as the recently revealed EQV luxury van. Whether these updates will apply to the related U.S.-market Mercedes-Benz Metris …
While there are plenty of Mercedes-Benz-based motorhomes on the market in the United States, they all come from upfitters customizing the vans, at least until now. The Metris Weekender is the brand’s first factory-offered pop-up camper for the American market. It debuts at the Chicago Auto …
Even though the Detroit Auto Show left January in the dust for a mild Michigan June, there are still plenty of automotive happenings around the world this month. Mercedes has a booth at this year’s Caravan, Motor, and Tourism exhibition in Germany, where the automaker is …
In 2014, the Mercedes-Benz V-Class premiere saw a completely new approach to design, value appeal, comfort and safety being introduced into the MPV segment. The concept went on to be a true success: proof of this can be found in the 209,000 or so V-Class units …
