Mercedes-Benz

Fashion / 3 May 2018

Eastern fashion is moving in the right direction

Located on the crossroads of Asia and Eastern Europe, Georgia is gaining reputation as an up-and-coming travel destination, but still remains an undiscovered gem in terms of contemporary culture. This ancient country in the Caucasus was part of the Soviet...

Fashion / 3 May 2018

Highlights from Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography 2018

Every year since 1986, the fashion world has been invited into the modernist sanctuary of the sprawling Villa Noailles, hidden in the hills above Hyères. Installations from ready-to-wear, photography and accessory design talents stand in rooms once occupied by prototype...

Lifestyle / 19 Mar 2018

Germany is leading the charge to create the world’s most innovative supercar

From hybrid supercars to hi-tech campervans, Germany is pushing auto innovation into top gear. Think AI dashboards, pure electric ideals and cult concept hits. Here’s all you need to know about the very best in German motor manufacturing and design...

Lifestyle / 31 Dec 2017

We get to grips with the Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster’s brutish bark and bite

The designers and engineers at Mercedes must spend their time spinning rooms full of plates, such is the diversity of the products the company creates. At precisely the same time the company’s stand at the Tokyo Motor Show was extolling...

Lifestyle / 27 Nov 2017

What lies on the road ahead for Daimler and autonomous driving

The 2017 Tokyo Motor Show was notable for the increasing number of autonomous car concepts emerging from the lab into what manufacturers expect to be an almost completely computer-controlled future. Most of these machines came from Japanese manufacturers, keen to...

Lifestyle / 20 Nov 2017

The new E-Class continues a long and happy aesthetic adventure for Mercedes coupés

Mercedes-Benz makes beautiful coupés. It always has done, ever since the 1920s and 30s, when its two-door cars stood a head and shoulders above everything else. Fashions in car styling have come and gone, but the way in which Mercedes...

Architecture / 13 Oct 2017

Driving force: HOK pioneers the return of innovative stadium design in Atlanta

American Sports stadiums have a long history of innovation, including the world’s first retractable roof sports stadium (Pittsburgh’s now-demolished Civic Arena, 1961), the first multi-purposed domed stadium (Houston’s Astrodome, 1965), and North America’s first retractable grass field (University of Phoenix...

Lifestyle / 19 Aug 2017

The new reality: Mercedes-Maybach unveils the super-luxury electric car of tomorrow’s world

When Mercedes-Benz had a second attempt at reviving the Maybach name, it took a more understated approach than the hefty limousines built for the earlier, 1997, iteration. Mercedes-Maybach, as the standalone luxury division was renamed in 2015, became a sub-brand...

Design / 14 Dec 2016

Mercedes-Benz publishes a visual manifesto by Gorden Wagener

These days, a luxury car company is nothing without a dedicated in-house design consultancy. As well as steering the shape and form of future products, these departments are increasingly encouraged to spread their wings and move into the thrusting world...

Lifestyle / 28 Oct 2016

Clean concepts and notable no-shows abound at the 2016 Paris Motor Show

‘Ready for change’ read a sign on the Mercedes-Benz pavilion. It signifies the marque’s new electric mobility sub-brand, yet unknowingly it also highlights another fundamental shift. From the hundreds of cars on exhibit at Mondial de l’Automobile, many will never...

Lifestyle / 13 May 2016

Super size: the Mercedes S-Class Cabriolet is a drop-top with grandeur

Perhaps there will always be a market for the grandiose, for cars as big as yachts, houses as big as palaces, diamonds as big as the Ritz. In some circles, scale still equates to status, and cars are especially susceptible...

Lifestyle / 22 Apr 2016

The holy trinity: Mercedes-Benz have conquered land, air and now sea

In the world of nautical design, secrets don’t stay very hidden for long. But bobbing up and down at the end of the harbour wall in Port de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, just opposite the Club Nautique, is a boat that has never...