Rewind the clock about 20 years and besides looking at some bad clothes and the pinnacle of rock ’n’ roll hair bands, you’d see diesel-powered cars accounting for 80 percent of all Mercedes-Benzes ...

If you think diesel engines are only for semis, heavy pickups, and parsimonious commuters willing to suffer sluggish, smelly, smoky performance in pursuit of 25-percent-better gas mileage, this E320 ...

High oil prices, fuel economy and diesel-powered cars all seem to be a relic of ’70s nostalgia, the automotive equivalent of Curtis Mayfield’s song “Freddie’s Dead” or the movie “Superfly.” Still, ...

Imagine driving from New Orleans to Nashville, or Charlotte to Indianapolis, or going roundtrip from Dallas to Little Rock, on a single tank of fuel in a mid-size Mercedes-Benz luxury sedan. It ...

Fans of diesel automobiles generally fall into one of two categories: the pragmatists, who admire such cars for their efficiency, durability, and grunt; and the iconoclasts, who get off on the oil ...

Well Toto, we’re not in a Kenworth anymore. In fact, there’s never been a diesel quite like this one. In an automotive first, Mercedes began producing passenger diesels in 1936, three years before the ...

SOME cars have that 'high-roller' streetcred but few deliver as much kudos as this stylish Merc that'll get a Sex In The City fanatic believing you're her very own Mr Big, writes PAUL MYLES. Because ...

In the early 1990's I had an "hour-long-with-good-traffic" daily commute into downtown Ottawa. The decision to buy my first diesel car, a Volkswagen Golf, seemed wise at the time. It's not like the ...

I can’t understand why anybody would buy a saloon car any more. Take any executive model as an example and there’s no contest on which is the better looking or the most practical. Audi A4? Easily the ...

In the early 1990's I had an "hour-long-with-good-traffic" daily commute into downtown Ottawa. The decision to buy my first diesel car, a Volkswagen Golf, seemed wise at the time. It's not like the ...

The E-class comes with an air of authority. On our last E-class test, we arrived outside our home one night to be greeted by no less than the town's mayor. He was there to welcome Pakistan's ...