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Mercedes to bring A and B-Class to America?

Click above for more shots of the A 160 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY The move to smaller cars in the United States will cover nearly all vehicle classes, even touching such luxury car stalwarts as Mercedes-Benz. Fortunately for MB, the automaker already has a few small vehicles which it can consider selling in the States, and new rumors indicate that the automaker could be considering launching its A-Class subcompact and B-Class compact cars here. Buyers who associate the three-pointed star with luxury alone may be surprised by the A-Class, which is ... Read more →

Mercedes-Benz A-Class to go with conventional FWD layout Sam Abuelsamid

After more than a year of holding talks with other automakers about potentially sharing a platform for a next-generation replacement for the A and B-Class cars, Mercedes-Benz has apparently decided ...

Mercedes-Benz A and B-Class cars to get stop/start Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz A-Class While Mercedes-Benz is a leader in clean diesel technology, the German luxury brand has been lagging behind its arch-rival BMW when ...

New Mercedes-Benz A and B-Class models have start/stop, BlueEffieciency Sebastian Blanco

click to enlarge Mercedes-Benz premiered two new models - updated A and B Class vehicles - at the Auto Mobil International exhibition in Leipzig. When the B Class was previewed last month, we learned ...

Brrrr. Mercedes testing fuel cells in Swedish winter Sebastian Blanco

click photo to enlarge Testing fuel cell vehicles is all the rage these days, and Mercedes isn't missing out on the action. The latest hydrogen vehicle tests from the three-pointed star company took ...

Update on the ongoing saga of Chryslers B segment deal with Chery 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Small cars often come in handy, especially when writing the initial check to purchase it and when pulling up next to the gas pump. For obvious reasons, the smaller the car and the smaller the engine, the less it costs and the less gas it uses. Anyway, Chrysler has been after a small B-Class car of ...

Small cars to be big part of Ford comeback 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the Mazda2 Ford has only sold small B-Class cars in the US market sporadically over the past thirty years. They sold the European Fiesta in the early eighties and the Kia-built Festiva and Aspire in the early nineties. Making money on those cars has ...

DaimlerChrysler showing B-Class fuel cell vehicle at SAE Congress 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At the DaimlerChrysler booth at this years SAE World Congress, one of the vehicles on display is a cutaway of the latest generation Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell. I spoke to DCX representative Scott Freeman for a few minutes to get a rundown of the latest generation of DCX fuel cell vehicle. The ...

Ford confirms that new B-Car will be based on Mazda2 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photo for a high-res image of the new Mazda2, suitable for wall-paper Ford has said for some time that they are working on a new B-Class car, smaller than the Focus for the North American market. I also recently spotted a Ford Fiesta with manufacturer plates on the road in South-East ...

Mercedes-Benz considers bringing compacts to the U.S. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In a good overview of diesel's strengths and weaknesses, Transportation News points out that higher emissions continue to be diesel engine's Achilles heal. The stringent California emissions laws, enforced in California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Vermont, are such that no current diesel ...


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