Smart, Germany’s micro-car answer to Mini, is being raised from the dead again. To be fair Smart isn’t dead, it’s like a cat reaching the summit of its quota of 9 lives. The brand is now 50-50 owned between Geely Motors and Mercedes. Together they are planing a Sino Teutonic re-rebirth. The plan is to […]
After a disgruntled employee leaked interior images of the new Kia K8 sedan online, Kia decided that it was time to release official images. The K8 is an upmarket shift for the Korean company and its main rivals in Europe are the Lexus ES, Audi A6, BMW 5 Series, and Mercedes E Class. But in […]
Celebrated premium luxury brand Mercedes is beginning the new year with yet more moral and ethical vagrancy. Yet again they only have themselves to blame. Mercedes is over 95 years old and is considered to be a leading automotive manufacturer. And after all this time they can not make a safe reliable car despite developing […]
Auto News Mercedes Halts The Advance of Aston Martin Vulture Capitalists With 20-Percent Share Holding
When Aston Martin became a private limited company in 2007, it fell into the hands of vulture capitalists. Modern vulture capitalism has a reputation for loading healthy companies with debt and off-loading that debt (money) into the hands of the venture capitalists through exorbitant consulting fees and other legal means. Meanwhile, the company can not […]
Auto News Mercedes Created This Maybach GLS 600 For A German Party Prince Lacking in Taste & Good Manners
Big SUVs are not the most elegant looking of vehicles as can be seen with the Maybach GLS 600 4Matic. The Maybach GLS 600 is like an exercise in targeted re-targeted marketing. The target audience for this SUV is a handful of German Prince’s whose privileges and titles of Royalty were abolished over a century […]