Would you buy a Natural Gas-Powered Mercedes-Benz B-Class?

by (RSS feed) February 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm

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While Mercedes-Benz has been working on bringing the B-Class to the U.S. market for over 3 years now, but the project was never realized. Mercedes-Benz may be stepping up efforts again with a new initiative – a natural gas-powered B-Class for the US consumers. They will be displaying a natural gas-powered vehicle at the Washington Auto Show this week.

“We’re testing the market,” said William Craven, general manager of regulatory affairs for Daimler’s Washington, D.C. office. Craven told Automotive News that Mercedes-Benz already sells a version of the B-Class in Europe that can run on gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG). The company is displaying one of those CNG B-class cars at Washington Auto Show this week to gauge interest.

There you have it, if public interest in B-Class CNG is high enough, they might just bring it stateside.

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Mercedes-Benz USA sales fall more than 35% in January

by (RSS feed) February 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm

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Mercedes-Benz today reported that its sales in the U.S. fell 35.5 % in January compared to same time last year. Even the popular smart fortwo was not able to help raise the falling numbers, even with tripling sales (from 641 last January to 1,776).

Overall sales of Mercedes-Benz cars in the U.S. fell 42.9% to 10,433 from 18,275. The Mercedes R-Class wagon posted a 75.9% decline in sales, while sales of the top-selling C-Class sedan fell 34.8%. Overall (Mercedes-Benz and smart) U.S. sales fell to 12,209 from 18,916 last year.

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Mercedes-Benz is Germany’s most popular commercial vehicle brand

by (RSS feed) February 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm

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While Audi is working on ridiculing the competition to increase its brand reputation, Mercedes is winning awards. Mercedes-Benz is Germany’s most popular commercial vehicle brand. This is the finding of an Emnid study commissioned by the weekly specialist magazine Verkehrs-Rundschau. In the “Verkehrs-Rundschau Image-Ranking 2009″ the opinion research institute investigated for the fourth year the perception of the leading commercial vehicle brands. Mercedes-Benz took first place in three of the seven categories: Trucks, Vans and the category Hire/Leasing.

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Audi Superbowl Ad: Mocking the Mercedes Benz 280SE 4.5

by (RSS feed) February 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm

We won’t be discussing the actually Superbowl game here, although it was definitely one of the more exciting ones that I’ve seen recently, but we will discuss the Audi ad for a bit. It’s definitely not the first time Audi had made fun of the competition, but it sure is one of their better ones. Besides starring Jason Statham, the new Jean-Claude Van Damme of our times and star of any movie that involves blowing stuff up and punching 20 guys senseless at the same time, we get to see the new supercharged A6, and drivability when chased by two Buell Ulysses bikes. A Mercedes Benz 280SE 4.5 also stars in the movie-like commercial, along with an ’80s BMW 5-Series and a Lexus ES that Jason didn’t even bother driving.

I have to admit, I did enjoy the ad, and was probably the better one last night. They could even make it into a movie, hey, it’s not like Transporter 3 had a better plot and they made that into a movie.

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