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The German car manufacturer, Mercedes Benz had already announced its plans on starting to assemble its M class and the GL class vehicles in India. The company has plans to assemble the M class from next year while the GL will start to be assembled from 2013 at the company’s assembly plant in Pune. To [...]

2012 Mercedes M-Class Movie – The Stitched Gifts

The upcoming 2012 Mercedes-Benz M-Class has been unveiled. The new M-Class which now sports a new design, along with being longer and slightly wider is expected to be launched in India at the 2012 Auto Expo. The 2012 model not only looks sharper, but will drive better too. Interiors have been given a thorough refresh, [...]

Mercedes-Benz is taking a bold move as it plans to assemble its M-Class in India. The German automaker plans to go the CKD way for their SUV and will utilise their Chakan facility for the same. CKD operations for the M-Class will commence by the end of 2011 and will help reduce the price of [...]

Mercedes-Benz has launched the M-Class Grand Edition in two variants – Grand Sports and Grand Executive for the Indian market. The Sport Edition is priced at Rs. 54.11 Lakhs while the Executive Edition is priced at Rs. 47.91 lakhs (ex-showroom Pune). The front end of the M-Class Grand Edition is now defined by redesigned darkened [...]

Mercedes-Benz will launch a new edition of the M-class priced at a premium of Rs. 5 lakhs over the regular M. The new version will be called the ‘Grand Edition’ and will feature a new exterior and interior styling package. These new features on the Grand M-Class will include LED daytime running lights, 19-inch alloy [...]

Mercedes-Benz has launched the 2010 M-Class in two options – Sports edition priced at Rs. 55 lakhs and Luxury edition priced at Rs 60.9 lakhs (ex-showroom, Delhi). In terms of technology, the 2010 M-Class takes forward exciting features like permanent four-wheel drive and 4ETS traction systems to the next level by incorporating additional functions such [...]

Mercedes-Benz has reached the 1 million mark production milestone for its M-Class built at its plant in Alabama where operations began 12 years ago. The 1 millionth Alabama built M-Class is a palladium silver ML350 BlueTEC diesel destined for a West Coast Mercedes-Benz dealership. Work is under way at the plant on a $290 million expansion [...]

The latest Euro NCAP test results are a testimony to the innovative safety systems of the M-Class that have been designed to match the reality of an accident in the standard crash test safety concept. Equipped as standard with six airbags, belt tighteners, belt force limiters and crash-responsive NECK-PRO headrests PRE-SAFE® passenger safety system, the [...]

  Car tested: 2009 Mercedes ML320 CDI V6 4MATIC (W164) Price OTR Mumbai: Rs. 63,81,990/- MotorBeam rating: We have never been a big fan of the Mercedes-Benz M-Class. Even when we saw it at the Autocar Performance Show last year, we thought it was just a lame attempt by Mercedes to enter the SUV segment [...]