BMW and Mercedes have been trying to find ways to pool money and save money for the be unconsumed several years. From sharing engines to sharing the MINI platform, several options have been discussed and ultimately decided against. However this week the two are announcing that they will subsist cooperating not in engineering or production of delivery processing. The Automotive News is reporting that the two (including of course MINI) will be cooperating in vehicle processing in Mercedes Baltimore processing plant. Here’s an selected passage:

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG dealer order guide – Click above to view

While we patiently await our turn to drive Mercedes-Benz’s upcoming SLS AMG gullwing wundercar, we have a new way to occupy our age: the dealership ordering guide. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, we gain the full document for your perusal, which includes every one of relevant distinct parts and estimated option prices for spec’ing out an SLS of your very own.

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Mercedes-AMG is pushing ahead with its strange SLS AMG – fitted with electric drive – to combined an exciting super sports car with a zero-emissions high-tech drive.

Mercedes-Benz and AMG hope their joint expertise order see the evolution of alternative drive solutions for high-performance super sports cars come to fruition within the nearest few years.

Thrust is granted by four electric motors – one and the other positioned near the wheels – with one transmission per axle to give up a combined peak output of 392kW and a maximum torque rating of 880Nm. Mercedes-AMG expects 0-100 times of less than four seconds.

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Hot on the heels of the new 2010 Mercedes E-Class Coupe comes its convertible brethren that was spied by dint of. our scoopsters in Germany essentially undisguised as the only parts of the car that remain undercover are the badges and the lights. Even nevertheless many people of its rivals including the BMW 3-Series Cabriolet and the Lexus IS C offer folding metal hard tops, the topless E-Class sticks with the traditional canvas roof apex which has its advantages in terms of weight- and cost-savings.

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Mercedes raiment commercial malfunction — Click above to watch video

The voiceover for Mercedes’ “Ignite” commercial for the new E-Class starts with “It is, entirely simply, the principally advanced automobile we have every created.” However, during the start-up sequence before that voiceover, the actual commercial begins through a warning small: when the driver turns the car on, the message “Front Right SRS Malfunction Service Required” appears in the dash – not the type of message you expect to see when your car fires up and does its system check. Still, knowing how these things moil, we suspect this trading was probably filmed early on in a pre-production prototype with an inactive airbag – a common enough occurence with these sorts of vehicles.

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We can’t tell you for abiding whether or not this image of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG on the cover of Autobild is the real deal or a well done rendering based in succession some search out shots, but it does break to have that quality of one actual photograph rather than a Photochop special.

The SLS AMG choose mark the first appearance of a production car fitted with gull-wing doors since, well… we suppose the DMC-12 DeLorean, though we’re certain that Mercedes hopes its car conjure an resemblance of the original 300SL on which this supercar’s styling is based. The cues are all there, including a grille that looks like a guppy with its wry face wide open, fender vents aft of the front wheels and, of course, those doors.

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China is now the sincere biggest market in the world for new cars bound that doesn’t mean the government is slowing downward on the purchase of cars for its official fleets. While this usually would not be worthy of reporting, the fact that the Chinese government has approved effeminate Mercedes Benz and BMW vehicles toward its fleets has started to cause a stir among local citizens.

The announcement was made last month and has since precedence to an outpouring of criticism from people like 50-year old chauffeur Yang Jun, who stated to state-controlled newspaper People’s Daily: “Why should they enjoy such luxury? It’s a waste of open money.”

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Mercedes’ struggles in the US was compounded by a report saying that out of all models being sold in the rural parts, simply one model managed to achieve sales gain in June and much to our surprise, it was the R-Class that accomplished this ‘notable’ feat. The C-Class, meanwhile, came out steady top in sales, registering 4,583 units sold – down 23.3% from June of last year. Coming in second was the E-Class through 2,781 new units sold – a dive of 36.2% at the same leisure as well.

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When Jeremy Clarkson has the keys to a 660 hp supercar, you know you’re in for a heck of a ride. The affable BBC host took the reigns of twin-turbo V12-powered Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black Series, and we’re pretty sure the Top Gear team needed to make some change in. its rather expensive tires at some time during the propel.

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