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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

With light-duty diesels barely a blip on U.S. sales charts today, it’s hard to believe we will ever embrace oil burners as daily drivers. Still, gasoline prices are near record highs, and new ...

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 ...

When was the last time you got excited about a station wagon? Probably never. That is, unless you have driven the Mercedes-Benz E320 version. ]]> In many ways, it can be argued that the recent vogue ...

Fortunately, those days are long gone. As we all know, the modern diesel engine is a high-tech masterpiece that is enjoying a runaway resurgence in the mainstream. Due to some impressive engineering ...