Amg cranks e53 up to 603bhp

IN THE HEART OF AFFALTERBACH IN the mid-2000s, Mercedes-AMG threw everything it had into the development of its first bespoke engine: the 6.2-litre M156 V8. Its generous outputs and raucous soundtrack

HISTORY IS LITTERED with musical supergroups boasting phenomenal talent but which never really made much of a dent on the charts: Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers in The Firm; the Taylors from Duran Duran

Mercedes does. But can its new CLA really match Elon Musk’s phenomenally successful Model 3?

FANCY A SUPERCOMPUTER with wheels? Buy a new Mercedes-Benz CLA, then. Its onboard computer apparently runs up to 280 million functions per second – qualifying it as a supercomputer, according to Merce

This is the latest generation of the E-Class Estate, Mercedes’s upmarket load carrier. We’ve been driving the E 450 d, a very powerful mild-hybrid diesel with four-wheel drive. It’s heavy enough to ri

‘THAT’S RAPID! IT’S LIKE A GT-R THE WAY it heaves up with those massive shoulders. Uglier face, though.’ That’s about as complimentary as photographer Aston Parrott gets on the polarising design of Hy