Here at the Firstvehicleleasing.co.uk blog we’ve been discussing the reliability of cars and the warranties offered by manufacturers. Buyers don’t want poor workmanship – no matter what the marque is – and they want value for money. People are keeping […]
Tag Archives: mercedes
Road Trippin’
Nowadays a G Class Mercedes seems most popular with rappers and (wannabe) pimps. Particularly when fitted with a humongous engine (G63 and G65 AMG), it definitely has a lot of ‘street cred’. But a G Class was never designed for […]
Retro Concepts: F-Cell Roadster
When carmakers are doing a new concept of an old model, they’ve only got their own automotive heritage to base it on. So, when you’re Mercedes-Benz, you might as well use the first automobile ever made for inspiration. It was […]
Retro Concepts: Jeep Mighty FC
Where the previous example of a retro concept was a case of sophisticated design and reinterpreting a design philosophy of 75 years ago, this one isn’t quite so refined. It’s the Jeep Mighty FC concept, a ‘car’ Jeep revealed earlier […]
Retro Concepts: The New Renault 4
I’m not 100% sure if they were the first, but at the back end of the nineties, VW came up with a new incarnation of a (very) old model: the New Beetle. Since then, many carmakers have followed suit. Mini […]
The Hunting Merc
Mercedes Benz did a concept a while ago, of a slick-lined wagon / station / break version of the four-door CLS. They called it the Shooting Break. The association with speed going out from the word ‘shooting’ made me think […]
The new A-Class takes a bow
It’s a Mercedes A-Class – but not as we know it. Gone is the rather dumpy design (but really clever use of interior space) to be replaced by something very sleek and refined. It’s going to give the BMW 1 […]
The Driver
I may be a BMW fan, but that doesn’t mean everything they do makes sense to me. Far from it, in fact. For example, I wasn’t too impressed with anything American designer Chris Bangle (with BMW between 1992 and 2009) […]
Which car should you rely on?
It’s one of those issues when buying a used car – just how long will it last before I get saddled with a massive repair bill? Now a firm which offers warranties on cars has come up with the answer. […]
For China’s Rich and Tasteless
China’s wealthy are facing a massive problem: the density of Mercs, Bimmers and Audis on the streets of Chinese cities is so high that they are suffering from ‘status inflation’. In other words, there’s room for more differentiation. This is […]
Jaguar tops vehicle ownership study
I don’t know who is more surprised by this announcement – me or Jaguar. But the best car to own is the Jaguar which claims the top spot in the J.D. Power/What Car? 2012 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study. The […]
Would You Drive a Despot’s Old Car?
Here’s a question for you to mull over for a couple of minutes. Would you buy a fantastic car at a good price knowing that it had a famous previous owner you didn’t like? This question came to my mind […]
Saab Reincarnated
It’s a while ago and it may have been bigger news in the Netherlands, due to the fact that it was a Dutch company that played cavalry to the company’s rescue – unfortunately they ran into a General Custer-inspired bloodbath […]
Merc: Your Model Names Are Like Chinese to Me!
I hate to admit it – because after all I am a car nerd and a bit autistic – but Mercedes-Benz is the only car brand sold on the Western hemispheres of which the great majority of its model names […]