Just a month ago, Merc teased us about a shooting brake concept that’s supposed to hint on the new CLS. And boy do the Germans work fast.

Here’s the Shooting Break Concept that’s set to debut in the upcoming Beijing Motor Show.

The car’s powered by a new 2.5L V6 that dishes out 306 hp and a max torque of 273 lb-ft. The powerhouse also sports Merc’s BlueEFFICIENCY technology for better fuel economy.

As for the styling, the Shooting Brake Concept offers a very modern take on the shooting brake structure. The Concept seems to have drawn from the F800 Style and the SLS AMG.

The slew of quality concepts to be unveiled at the Beijing show does affirm China’s role in the automotive industry.

Ending all speculation regarding the replacement for the CLC, Mercedes has confirmed that it will be coming out with the Mercedes C-class coupe.

The C-class coupe will be a two-door version of the existing C-class and is set to take the place of the CLC. In an effort of steamlining their line, the coupe will also fill in the gap left by the CLK which has been killed off earlier this year.

The announcement of the new car came with the plans on expanding the production line of the current Bremen plant which is set to build the C-class saloon, estate, coupe, and GLK.

As far as the styling goes, the C-class coupe is expected to draw from the lines of the saloon but will have the more aggressive styling brought about by the CLK’s unique body shell.

Keen fans would probably point out that the current E-class coupe is also a two-door based on the CLS but unlike the E-class, the C-class coupe will only be made in hardtop form.

“External airbags” just make me think of bewbs all the time. For some reason the idea of real automotive airbags deployed outside the car hasn’t quite created the proper signfier-signified relationships in my brain.

And get this, the external airbag deployment might not be where you’d be expecting it. When your brain finally reconciles the mental image of externally-deployed airbags, you might be thinking it’s supposed to protect pedestrians.

Nope. Merc’s testing to deploy airbags underneath the car. It’s supposed to act like an anchor to help the car slow down when a supporting system detects that a collision is inevitable. Pretty neat.

Other safety geekery that Merc’s experimenting on – headlights that automatically adjust brightness so it doesn’t blind drivers in oncoming vehicles, reflective tire sidewalls, and inflatable seat cushions.

Green is the color of inevitability. With public perception and legislation requiring automakers to cut their fleet-wide fuel consumption and emissions . Here’s part of Mercedes’ showcase at the upcoming Geneva motor show – the F800 Style.

The car features a couple of green powertrain lineups including a hydrogen fuel cell zero-emissions 100kW motor that develops 214 lb-ft of torque. The hydrogen setup can go 375 miles in between refills. The plug-in hybrid features a 3.5L V6 gasoline engine that dishes out 299 hp and a 80 kW electric motor. Power is channeled through a seven-speed gearbox.

The car’s lines previews the future of Mercedes’ design language and serves as a teaser for the revamped CLS styling as well.

The car also packs a few other nifty technologies like the Range on Map feature on the sat-nav which shows the vehicle’s remaining range 360-degree depicted on the map and the Distronic Plus Traffic Jam Assistant which detects if the car in front pulls off and prevents the F800 from following it blindly. The F800 also features Merc’s PRE-SAFE 360 which applies the brakes if it detects possible rear-end collisions.

Not long after Ferrari and McLaren unveiled their new F1 race cars, here’s Mercedes GP unveiling the W01 Formula One car. And we’ll be seeing more of these in the coming days as the test sessions have begun.

Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg will be driving the car next season. Interestingly for Schumacher, this will be the first time in three years that he will be driving contemporary F1 tech. Much has changed engineering-wise with F1 cars today thanks to new rules.

Just last week, we got to see last year’s Brawn GP car use the Silver Arrows livery from the 1950s. The new car carries the same paint job.

Noticeable on the car is the nose which is reminiscent of the front-end design of Red Bull last year. Red Bull placed second in the constructor’s cup second to Brawn.

So the Mercedes GL isn’t really the type of car that you plow off the road at a whim since it’s really more of a big car for the road. So what’s the point in giving the GL a massive shot of steroids.

Well, that’s just the thing with tuners especially with the likes of Brabus. Meet the Brabus Mercedes-Benz GL 63 Biturbo.

The car’s basically a GL but has an eight-cylinder engine from the ML 63 AMG with a couple of turbos added for good measure. It’s tweaked and tuned to dish out 650 hp and up to 625 lb-ft of torque. That’s in the ball park of the Ferrari Enzo. The engine is mated to a Speedshift 7G-Tronic automatic gearbox and permanent 4WD.

However, since this is a crossover we’re talking about, the Brabus GL 63 doesn’t necessarily go like the Enzo. But it’s pretty fast and pretty quick, able to go full out at 186.4 mph and a 0-62 mph sprint in 4.7 seconds.

Since Brabus doesn’t simply tweak the engine, the car also gets a bit more styling with 23-inch forged wheels (21s and 22s) come as choices, bits and pieces for the exterior and a spiffy interior styling.

Mercedes has already announced that it is making an electric SLS supercar that they intend to launch in three year’s time.

Merc in-house tuner AMG boss Volker Mornhinweg revealed to Autocar a few updates on the car. Mornhinweg said that they are on track to meet the performance objectives – 0-62 mph in 4.0 seconds and a range of 110 miles.

This electic SLS will be powered by three batteries and the motor will be around 525 bhp (converted). A consquence though is that it will be heavier than the internal-combustion powered SLS by as much as 620 lbs.
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But with the launch date still in 2013, that gives Merc engineers to fine-tune everything. Or maybe fix a glitch or two while developping the car.

McLaren’s now happy with their own exclusive sports car with the MP4-12C as the British sports car maker decided to end its co-development partnership with Mercedes.

Mercedes prepares for the last hurrah of the SLR McLaren with its last few specimens of the Stirling Moss edition.

The company came out with five variants of the SLR over the past five years ever since it came out with the first SLR in 2004. The lineup now includes two coupes, two roadsters, and the Stirling Moss edition.

75 Stirling Moss units will be produced meaning 2,000 SLRs will ever be produced – a staggering number given the car’s elite hypercar status.

Source: Mercedes-Benz

This here’s the Calrsson CK50 – a tuned and even more powerful version of the Mercedes E500 coupe.

Powering the car is a the same engine but tuned to get a 40 bhp power boost from 383 bhp to 429 bhp. This is achieved through engine tweaks and the addition of a twin-pipe stainless steel exhaust system.

To help keep the car planted, Carlsson slapped on a new coilover suspension system with adjustable dampers. The ride height has also been lowered to help it better get around corners.

Front and rear spoilers have been added for both aero and styling purposes. The car also sits on 20-inch lightweight alloy wheels.

Source: Autocar

Anyway, here’s Mercedes-Benz’s latest estate – the E63 AMG estate – which has been recently debuted at the Frankfurt show. With that AMG badge, this estate is no pansy. Power comes from a 6.3L V8 that dishes out 518 bhp and 464 lb-ft of torque and is mated to the new seven-speed Speedhsit MCT automatic gearbox.

That allows the car to blitz to 62 mph from standstill in just 4.6 seconds. That’s enough to put most sport saloons to shame. The car’s fitted with an AMG sports suspension kit which automatically adjusts the dampers to fit road conditions.

A few styling tweaks include a new front bumper, air intakes, rear diffuser and a four-pipe exhaust system to give it a bellow.

Source: Autocar