If you think diesel engines are only for semis, heavy pickups, and parsimonious commuters willing to suffer sluggish, smelly, smoky performance in pursuit of 25-percent-better gas mileage, this E320 ...

In the early 1990's I had an "hour-long-with-good-traffic" daily commute into downtown Ottawa. The decision to buy my first diesel car, a Volkswagen Golf, seemed wise at the time. It's not like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

and extremely powerful. So good are they, and so efficient, that many automakers sell more diesels in Europe than gasoline models. Mercedes-Benz is a leader among diesel producers, which makes it ...

Do you miss starting your car each morning, sitting back and enjoying the aroma of diesel fumes escaping from your car? Mercedes-Benz, inventor of the diesel for passenger cars back in 1936, thought ...

A narrow escape this week as the Discovery 3 that Shed was planning to bring to your attention was sold before his Amstrad word processor had had time to warm up. A shame in a way as it looked like a ...

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 ...

I can’t understand why anybody would buy a saloon car any more. Take any executive model as an example and there’s no contest on which is the better looking or the most practical. Audi A4? Easily the ...

The E-class comes with an air of authority. On our last E-class test, we arrived outside our home one night to be greeted by no less than the town's mayor. He was there to welcome Pakistan's ...

During work on the new Mercedes-Benz E-class, the manufacturer spent an average of £8.2 million every week developing the car. It kept this pace up for two solid years until it was happy with the ...