Motorsport
Mercedes Is Taking Its Free F1 Fan Hub to Las Vegas After Packing Downtown Austin
The team's free downtown hub runs November 18–21 on Bellagio Drive, with a real-car pit-stop challenge, simulators, and live Grand Prix screenings.
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Tech
Mercedes Gives Its Smallest Engine an F1-Derived Electric Turbo, Starting With the GLB
The M 252 LS makes 228 hp plus 30 hp of hybrid assist and promises up to 17% less CO2 than the 2.0-liter four it replaces.
New Cars
Mercedes Drops the C 300 Name: The Updated C-Class Is Now the 255-HP C 350
Output stays at 255 hp, but an electric compressor, a 27-hp overboost, and S-Class tech arrive when the sedan reaches U.S. dealers in the first half of 2027.
Autonomy
NHTSA Wants Self-Driving Cars to Glow Cyan. Here's What the Rule Would Change
The Federal Register filing makes blue-green marker lamps optional, strips driver-only lighting rules from robotaxis, and openly conflicts with California's law. Comments close November 25.
Motorsport
Mercedes Gives Its F1 Car a MANUFAKTUR Livery for Austin — and Takes Over the City
The W17, both drivers' race suits, and their AMG GT 4-Door Coupés get MANUFAKTUR colors in Austin, a market where half of Mercedes' US sales carry the option.
Tech
Mercedes Crashed Two CLAs Into Each Other at 35 mph. Here's What Survived
A hybrid CLA hit an electric CLA's driver door at 35 mph with no braking. All eight dummies stayed under injury limits, and the battery pack was untouched.
New Cars
Mercedes S-Class Wins MotorTrend Car of the Year — at $114,100 to Start
The refreshed flagship beat 22 contenders a year after the Golf GTI won, and it reaches U.S. dealers with 442 to 576 hp and a $112,550 base price.
Industry
Mercedes Says AI Will Cut 17 Months From Developing a New Car
The new PLM.AI platform, built with CONTACT Software and Siemens, is meant to halve physical testing and get new models to market up to 30% sooner. Mercedes is putting roughly half a billion euros behind it.
New Cars
Mercedes Brings Its S-Class World Tour Home — and Reveals a 1,153-HP AMG GT SUV
The three S-Class sedans crossed 55 countries in nine months; AMG used their return to show an electric SUV that matches the Cayenne Turbo Electric on power and nearly doubles its charging speed.
Autonomy
Mercedes Doubles Down on NVIDIA for Its Next Self-Driving Systems — and Its S-Class Robotaxi
The expanded deal puts NVIDIA’s Hyperion hardware and Alpamayo software at the core of Mercedes’ next driver-assist systems — and its Level 4 S-Class plans.
Special Editions
LeBron James’ Custom Mercedes-Maybach S 680 Is Heading to Auction
Mercedes built two of LeBron’s Light Ivory Maybachs. One stays with him; the other sells at Retromobile New York in November, with every dollar going to his I PROMISE program.
Recalls
Mercedes Widens S-Class Brake Hose Recall to 30,000 Cars After Its First Theory Failed
The front brake hoses on 2022–2025 S-Class, Maybach and AMG S 63 models can rupture without warning. Mercedes first blamed climate, then widened the recall by nearly 10,000 cars.
Industry
Mercedes' U.S. Sales Rose 4% in Q3 on a 47% S-Class Jump — but the Year Is Still Down
Mercedes-Benz USA sold 76,200 passenger cars in the third quarter, its sedans grew fastest, and the brand still trails BMW and Lexus with sales down 1% for the year.
EV Tech
Mercedes Just Placed a Second Solid-State Battery Bet
A joint testing agreement gives the automaker priority access to ProLogium's Gen4 cells — while a different solid-state battery, from Factorial, has already carried an EQS 749 miles on one charge.
Industry
Mercedes' 140th-Anniversary S-Class Tour Hits Istanbul and the Balkans on the Way Home
Three facelifted S-Class sedans are crossing Europe for a second time — through Turkey, Greece, and Hungary — before the 140-location world tour wraps up in Stuttgart in mid-October.
Industry
Mercedes Starts Building the New GLA, but US Buyers Wait Until Late 2027
Series production of the new GLA is underway in Rastatt, EVs first and 48-volt hybrids to follow. American deliveries are still about a year away.
EVs
The Electric GLC Undercuts Mercedes' Own Gas AMG by $6,400
The 2027 GLC 400 4MATIC Electric starts at $63,500, below the AMG GLC 53 and $800 above the plug-in GLC 350e. What Mercedes still hasn't said: when U.S. deliveries begin.
New Cars
Mercedes' New S-Class Crosses Africa — Elephants Included — as Its 140-Stop World Tour Nears the End
Three of Mercedes' freshly updated flagships are wrapping up the African leg of a 140-stop global drive — sharing roads with elephants, baobabs, and a few well-traveled classics.
Industry
Chengdu 2026 Just Outgunned Every Western Auto Show. Here's What That Means
Our photographers worked the halls of the 29th Chengdu show: 1,600 cars from some 120 brands — while the West's marquee shows shrink, rebrand, or disappear.