This weekend I hit the road in my 2012 Sprinter 3500! We put in over 2100 miles visiting family in Pennsylvania, attending a SprinterFest Eastand making a quick trip to New Jersey. We towed a pretty heavy trailer the whole way and spent some time sitting in traffic. I think 12 mpg overall isn’t too bad!
Special thanks to Sun Motor Cars for hosting all of these Sprinters!
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Classes started to arrive yesterday and today was my first chance totake a closer look and a test drive. The changes to the interior are subtle but noticeable. The ambient lighting, additional aluminum accents and central clock give it a richer look. There are changes to the steering and ride quality that make it more quiet and comfortable. The most noticeable changes are to the exterior and it looks great! The new nose reminds me a lot of the CLS-Class.Here are some side-by-side comparison pictures so youcan judge for yourself!
Anda close-up of the new nose!
Ok, Who found all 8,000 changes?
Thank you to my co-workers for making Atlanta Classic Cars a wonderful place to work!
Thank you to Mercedes-Benz for making the best vehicle in the world!
Thank you to my clients for helping me get to the 10-year mark!
Now, on to the next decade!
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class should be arriving any minute now and it has some exciting new technology! This is the first of our vehicles to get the Steering Assist upgrade to the Distronic Plus. Now the radar can keep you both an appropriate distance from the vehicle in front and in the center of your lane. This system uses the electromechanical steering to stay centered as oppsed to using the brakes like Active Lane Keep Assist. I can’t wait to try it out! Also, doesn’t the 2014 E-Class look great in this video?
The 2013 GLK250 Bluetec has been listed in our order banks with a base price of $99,999 for months now. Those 9′s are really just a place holder until there is actual pricing to fill in. Today the GLK250shave real prices!
Base MSRP $38,590plus $905 Destination and Delivery
There is no official release date yet but we are hoping to see them at the dealerships by early May.
I just drove the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 Bluetec! It was great! I felt like it had plenty of power and pick-up. I can’t wait for it to arrive at the dealership (hopefully within the next couple of weeks).
The trainer who has been driving for the last 3000 miles says his best mileage has been 37mpgon the highway and below is the current trip odometer.
It was a great weekend for our Mercedes-Benz athletes!
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG is scheduled to arrive about a month after the 2014 CLA250 this fall. This will be the most affordable AMG vehicle ever released and is sure to be a winner! The base price is estimated at $47,470 and includes all of the engineering brilliance you would expect from an AMG product. The order banks are open!
The 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 Bluetec will be out first 4-cylinder diesel when it is released this spring! Details have just been published in the Future Models section at MBUSA.com.
The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class has been released for sale! They should begin shipping to the dealerships this week!
Pricing has also been released:
I am a huge fan of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. I visited in 2008 and I always tell people the 6 hours I spent there were not nearly enough! The automotive history is impressive and the vehicles themselves are works of art! It looks like Autoweek had a good time too!
If you take European Delivery of your new Mercedes-Benz we’ll buy the tickets!
“The history lesson was welcome and we would have enjoyed the well-planned displays even if the placards didn’t make space for English translations.”
“Galleries devoted to "voyagers" (buses, touring vehicles and wagons) "carriers" (buses and auto haulers) and "helpers" (fire, police and service vehicles) grabbed our attention as firmly as the Gullwings did, though we never want to see a Unimog as spic-and-span clean as the ones displayed at the museum are ever again.”
“We struggled to put a dollar value on the Silver Arrows before us — $150 million? $250 million? Priceless? — before resigning ourselves to simply enjoying the banked display setup.”
Read the full account at Autoweek online.
The 2014 Mercedews-Benz S-Class is scheduled to arrive this fall and it is going to be amazing! There are about a million new features and it looks pretty sharp too! We expect to get all the details and official pictures in a few weeks. Until then Mercedes-Benz has released select images of the interior. See them at the MBUSA Facebook Page!
From the Owners’ Manual:
“The ECO display gives you information on how economical your driving style is. The ECO display assists you in achieving the optimum driving style in terms of consumption, taking the actual and selected conditions into consideration. Your driving style can significantly influence the vehicle’s consumption.
The ECO display consists of three bars:
The percent value is the average value of the three bars. The three bars and the mean value begin at the value of 50%. A higher percentage indicates a more economical driving style.”
I have been watching my ECO Display while driving all month.The picture above is the best I have been able to acheive during my morning commute. This is all surface streets with stop lights and stop signs. I have seen it as low as 0% and as high as 75%but I usually end up between 40% and 45%.
The ECO Display is accessed by the steering wheel controls. When you can see the odometer push the up or down arrows until you see the ECO Display. Has anyone else tried using this screen to drive more economically? I think I will get about 20 more miles on this tank of fuel than I usually do…not a big improvement.
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Here it is! The 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA250 has arrived at Atlanta Classic Cars!
Ok, so it isn’t a real CLA-Class. This is our new life-size display CLA-Class in Jupiter Red! I was hoping it would help prospective owners visualize the dimensions so we can place early orders.
Come by and take a look!
Yesterday I took a little road trip in a 2012 Merceded-Benz C250 courtesy car. I drove from Atlanta, GAto Columbus, GA and back before noon using about half a tank of fuel. There was heavy traffic in Atlanta that slowed me down a little but the C250 was a great vehicle for this trip -Fun to drive, plenty of space and the fuel economy was impressive! The 2012 C250is officially rated at 31 mpg on the highwaybut I was able to do even better!
This beauty will be retired from our courtesy car fleet in about a year but Atlanta Classic Cars has a great selection of Certified Pre-Owned C-Classes availablenow. Let me know if something catches your eye!
Mercedes-Benz hosted a press test drive event for the all-new 2014 CLA-Class. It looks like everyone loves the looks, quality and sportiness of our new car! Here is a round up on the test drive reviews – click the link for the full review! Test drive for yourself in September!
Autoweek says: “…this entry-level Benz makes no compromises and no excuses.”
Autoblog says: “This is a good and solid baby Mercedes sedan with above average build quality, great ambitions, and fresh looks that fit the established brand image worldwide.” Tons of great pictures here too!
Edmunds says: “the CLA is a uniquely styled sedan that attracts attention even before people know what it is. Not many of the competitors in this price range can do the same. Add in the sharp interior and solid performance and the CLA is an interesting option at its price point.”
Car and Driver Says: “The CLA250 might be the most humble U.S.-market Mercedes in some time, but it follows squarely in the CLS's footsteps in injecting fashionable design where conservative and derivative are the norm.”
MotorTrend says: “…everything you see, hear, touch, or feel has been tailored to the standards of the Mercedes lineup.”
In April Mercedes-Benz will be launching the new Drive Kit Plus for the iPhone in the US market. It was introduced in Europe late last year in the A-Class. This system allows you to connect your iPhone to your Mercedes-Benz for a lot more than just phone calls and music!
This website has lots of details and demos about the features!
MSRP is expected to be under $1000 installed. Part numbers are not yet available.
Just added to the Future Vehicles section at MBUSA.com…
