Monaco: Veteran Michael Schumacher posted the fastest time in an action-packed qualifying session at the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday, but a grid penalty means that Mark Webber's Red Bull will start Sunday's race in pole position. Webber beat Nico Rosberg's time on his final lap, only for the 43-year-old Schumacher to surpass Webber's effort just moments later in a thrilling finale. But the grid penalty Schumacher incurred at the...
07:18 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz Tuesday launched its third generation sports utility vehicle M-Class priced at Rs.56.9 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). "At the start of this year, we had promised to introduce exciting new models into the market. We are proud to present today the new M-Class," Peter Honegg, managing director and chief executive, Mercedes-Benz, said. "We are confident that the quality drive and the luxurious experience it can...
11:56 AM, May 16, 2012
I heard god for the first time in an SL, and he was shouting. Loudly. Very loudly. So much so that the whole of Rajasthan woke up. Picture the scene: the arrow straight roads around Jaisalmer; a fleet of AMGs, the first batch to land on our shores; C63, CLS63, S65, nothing in the fleet costing less than a crore of rupees; and the car Id just taken the roof...
11:29 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore has paid a whopping Rs 9.05 lakh to buy a VIP registration number plate that reads 0001. Rathore bought the unique number plate as a gift for his wife Abha who owns a Mercedes. Rathore was convicted in the 1990 Ruchika Girhotra molestation case and it was his wife who fought his case. The 14-year-old budding tennis player committed suicide in 1993. Rathore's...
09:50 AM, Apr 25, 2012
We celebrate our 200th episode of Overdrive by taking 4 luxury SUV's into snow. The new Land Rover Discovery 4 is joined by the Toyota Landcruiser, Mercedes GL and Mitsubishi Montero. ...
07:52 PM, Mar 25, 2012
London: Michael Schumacher looked forward to being a contender again as his Mercedes team belatedly pulled the wraps off their shiny new Formula One car before testing at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. If the F1 W03 was far from attractive, with the by-now familiar stepped nose seen on all the other 2012 cars with the sole exception of McLaren, the sport's most successful driver declared it a beautiful...
09:57 PM, Feb 21, 2012
London: Mercedes gave their new Formula One car a track debut away from prying eyes on Thursday amid lingering suspicions that the late arrival meant the team had something to hide from copycat rivals. The team said Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg each did 50km at Silverstone circuit for what was officially a private filming day before the launch of the W03 at the second pre-season test in Barcelona next...
04:03 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Jerez: Michael Schumacher was hoping the late arrival of his new Mercedes would pay off after doing nearly two race distances in last year's car on the second afternoon of Formula One testing on Wednesday. Despite that, and despite setting a quickest lap that was meaningless on a day when rivals were trying out their new cars, the German still played down his title chances. The seven-times world champion pounded...
10:26 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Mercedes-Benz India has launched a new variant of their GL SUV - the Grand Edition. The new variant features 20-inch alloy wheels, dark-tinted head lamps, redesigned front bumper with integrated daytime running LED lights, metallic paint finishes, heat-insulating and infrared-reflecting laminated glass all round, aluminium-look running boards with rubber studs and divided exhaust tailpipe trim. The interiors are either a combination of black/porcelain or black/maroon leather upholstery. The floor mats...
06:16 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Hochgurgl sounds more like a throat rinse but the small ski resort north of Innsbruck isn't a place you'd rinse out of your system easily. Perched on my balcony at the Top Hotel overlooking the amazing landscape I can't help but admire how Europeans make every effort to improve their life and lifestyle. The thought sprang up when I caught sight of dozens of snow machines littered across the slopes...
05:03 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mercedes has launched its AMG driving academy at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida. ...
09:27 PM, Jan 21, 2012
San Francisco: At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network's more than 800 million users. Now that habit has reached a new frontier: the automobile. Mercedes-Benz USA is bringing Facebook to its cars, with a special version of the service that is built-in to a new in-vehicle telematics system that will be unveiled at the Consumer...
04:22 PM, Jan 10, 2012
On this episode we bring you all the main attractions of the Auto Expo 2012. ...
04:41 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: Premium car maker Mercedes-Benz today launched a luxury SUV, M-Class, which is priced at Rs 58-60 lakh, and an open top vehicle, SLS AMG Roadster, that comes for about Rs 3 crore. The German auto major also showcased the future design cues through Concept A-Class and fuel cell technologies. The concept car is likely to be introduced next year. Mercedes-Benz India said that continuing in true M-Class tradition,...
07:18 PM, Jan 05, 2012
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