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July 22, 2015 AUTOS

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-class Driven: Luxury-Crossover Buyers Should Be Excited

-A new crossover gets us nearly as excited as the prospect of binge-watching C-SPAN. Or maybe binge-watching people who are binge-watching C-SPAN. Yet such vehicles are wildly popular, and so every automaker offers at least as many variations on the theme as there are variations of, well, C-SPAN. (“C-SPAN 7: All Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, All the Time!”) This includes Mercedes-Benz, which

July 22, 2015 AUTOS

2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC-class Driven: Luxury-Crossover Buyers Should Be Excited

-A new crossover gets us nearly as excited as the prospect of binge-watching C-SPAN. Or maybe binge-watching people who are binge-watching C-SPAN. Yet such vehicles are wildly popular, and so every automaker offers at least as many variations on the theme as there are variations of, well, C-SPAN. (“C-SPAN 7: All Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, All the Time!”) This includes Mercedes-Benz, which

July 22, 2015 AUTOS

Next Toyota Prius Plug-In Allegedly Could Provide 30 to 35 Miles of Electric Range

Toyota’s first-generation Prius plug-in was a bit of a dud. First launched for 2013, it was much pricier than a standard Prius but by the time production ended, the price had been slashed to within $2000 of the regular model. But even the price drop didn’t solve its biggest problem: a relatively low electric-only range of about 11 miles—that is, if you could keep the gas engine from firing up.

July 21, 2015 AUTOS

Production-Ready 2017 Infiniti Q30 Revealed Ahead of Frankfurt Debut

– After a long, multi-year (and multi-concept-car) gestation, Infiniti’s all-new compact Q30 hatchback has finally been revealed. Scheduled to fully debut at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show this fall—so far Infiniti has only released the photo above—the Q30 marks Infiniti’s first foray into the “premium-compact-car” field since the G20. Don’t remember the G20? It vaguely resembled a Tehran taxi, but was somehow even less interesting to look at. Hence why

July 21, 2015 AUTOS

We’d Call It King Chrome: Meet the 2016 Ford F-150 Limited

– The luxury full-size pickup market seems to have no upper limit, so we are utterly unsurprised to hear that Ford is bringing the top-shelf Limited grade back to the F-150 range for 2016. – Positioned above the Platinum and King Ranch models in the F-150 model hierarchy, the F-150 Limited features all kinds of stuff you won’t want to get dirty. There’s a “satin-chrome” finish on the grille, door

July 21, 2015 AUTOS

2017 Mercedes-Benz C-class Coupe Prototype Ride: Tauter and Sportier

– The rear of the prototype vehicle we were riding in was still disguised, but that’s not the reason it received an unusual amount of attention from bystanders—it was the car’s proportions. Indeed, the new generation of Mercedes-Benz’s two-door C-class, which will make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt auto show this September, is classically beautiful, unlike its predecessor, which some of us think resembled Daimler’s interpretation of a