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Mercedes CLS review covering 2005 To Date

Mercedes CLS review covering 2005 To Date

Friday 22 August 2008

When it comes to buttoned-down saloon car rectitude, Mercedes-Benz has the market taped. Leave aside the gut-wrenchingly rapid AMG models and it has to be said that the C-Class, E-Class and S-Class models are about as straight as they come. It’s easy to imagine senior suits in Stuttgart intoning that "For the saloon car, we have a procedure. The procedure must not be deviated from. Deviation will not be tolerated." Quite how the CLS slipped through the net is anyone’s guess, but here’s a car that takes the saloon car book of conventions, rips it to shreds and dances on the tatters. As a used buy, it’s one of the most interesting saloon choices around.

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Mercedes B-Class review covering 2005 To DateMercedes B-Class review covering 2005 To Date

Monday 28 July 2008

Mercedes doesn’t often get it wrong but with the B-Class, it developed and brought to market a car that rather confused the public. What was a B-Class? What did it compete against and why should I buy

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Mercedes A-Class review covering 2005 To DateMercedes A-Class review covering 2005 To Date

Thursday 26 June 2008

History has been extremely harsh on the Mercedes A-class. Yes, the original model fell over on the infamous ‘elk test’ but less widely known is that Mercedes then implemented a belt and braces safety

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Mercedes C-Class review covering 2000 - 2007Mercedes C-Class review covering 2000 - 2007

Friday 8 February 2008

There’s an established pecking order in the executive car arena that Mercedes did a great deal to disrupt when they launched the C-class in September 2000. Up until this point, you bought a BMW 3 Seri

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Mercedes R-Class review covering 2006 To DateMercedes R-Class review covering 2006 To Date

Friday 9 November 2007

* IntroductionMercedes-Benz is not in the business of getting things wrong. Page through the company’s long and illustrious history and it’s littered with firsts. First to use supercharging on a passe

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Mercedes SLR McLaren review covering 2004 To DateMercedes SLR McLaren review covering 2004 To Date

Monday 20 August 2007

Subject to some fierce depreciation, the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren hypercar is now coming into the realm of the merely very expensive. Having garnered mixed reviews since launch, the SLR is an intrigu

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Mercedes Vaneo review covering 2002 - 2006Mercedes Vaneo review covering 2002 - 2006

Wednesday 4 July 2007

Faced with the problem of how to convert all of the buyers of small estates and mini-MPVs to the three-pointed star, Mercedes designers came up with the Vaneo. It’s by no means the most elegant lookin

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Mercedes SL review covering 1989 - 2002Mercedes SL review covering 1989 - 2002

Wednesday 4 July 2007

Ask anyone what they'd do if they won the lottery and you can bet somewhere on most people's list will be the following: mansion on the French Riviera, swimming pool filled with champagne and a Merced

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Mercedes GL-Class review covering 2006 To DateMercedes GL-Class review covering 2006 To Date

Wednesday 4 July 2007

* IntroductionFor those who feel that large is just a good start, there’s the Mercedes GL Class. Originally designed to replace the antediluvian G Class utility vehicles, a combination of fierce loyal

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Mercedes S-Class Saloon review covering 2006 To DateMercedes S-Class Saloon review covering 2006 To Date

Wednesday 27 June 2007

Consistency is a lot more difficult to achieve than you’d imagine when it comes to building class-leading cars. Virtually every car that we think of as a great has had at least one not so acclaimed ve

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