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Project Car Hell: Citroen CX Prestige or Mercedes-Benz 190 Wagon?

The jaw-droppingly steep price tag, automatic transmission, and ARBOUR GREEN paint of the '56 Jag made it an unassailable Hell Project fortress, giving the XK140 an easy win over the '58 Mercedes-Benz 190 in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Was it fair to force a Benz to go toe-to-toe with the product of a PCH Superpower? Maybe not... so today we're going to give Germany another shot at unseating a Superpower. And not just any PCH Superpower- we're having another Franco-Prussian rematch!
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5:20 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,908 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: @texajeff: I'm the guy that owns the CX in Houston at your workplace. How do I know its me?Well the other CXA Citroen CX Prestige owner in Houston runs an autobody repair shop down the street on Sage @ Richmond.I'm guessing more »

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Project Car Hell: Mercedes-Benz 6.9 or Peugeot Mi16?

As everyone predicted, the Triumph GT6 obliterated the Porsche 914 in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll. British Leyland versus VW? We've been gearing up to have an epic Britain-versus-France PCH Superpower Showdown ever since a Lotus knocked the crown off top dog Italy's dome, but it's only fair to give PCH SuperBeaucoupPower France a warmup round against Germany, just as the Brits got. Thus, we have today's matchup, courtesy of PCH Tipster (and T-shirt winner) Anaxomander.
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5:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,850 views, 82 comments

Latest by n/a: I was looking around the net, and lo and behold! I find my 6.9 being compared to a Peugeot for best/worst project hell car!The trans is the only thing wrong with this (besides needing paint) car. And finding a good more »

down on the street

1966 Mercedes-Benz 250S, With Bonus Benz Poll

After almost a month since we last saw an Alameda Mercedes-Benz in this series, we're due again. Old Mercedes sedans are all over town (and, most likely, all over half the towns in the world), and they're so ageless that I often go right past them when eyeballing for potential DOTS cars. It's just that they've always been around; not in huge numbers, but present in the background.
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9:15 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,601 views, 47 comments

Latest by Naturally Exasperated?: there is not a more elegant sedan than this. i don't care what you say. more »

down on the street

1958 Mercedes-Benz 220S

Some of you Mercedes-Benz experts may have taken one glance at the photo above and spluttered "1958? Why, any fool can see that's a 1959!" However, I swear I did my best to figure out the exact model year of this car. With the help of such sites as this one, I believe I've narrowed it down to 1958 or 1959 (the 220S was made from 1956 through 1959, and the bumper-mounted license-plate lights should mean it's from the last two years... unless it's had a junkyard bumper swap, of course). Anyway, regardless of year, this is the car that Mercedes-Benz aficionados consider the very first S-class. That means it's both a cool old 50s daily driver and a significant piece of automotive history, all on one West End Alameda street!
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9:00 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,453 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: Would you believe that just yesterday a very kind woman just GAVE me one of these. A 1958 220S with 81,000 miles on the odometer. If anyone knows where i can get a left front door for one of these!... Probably more »

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Musin' On the Yakuza

The Japanese Yakuza roughly parallels the American La Cosa Nostra. Both of whom, we imagine, look down their noses and giggle at Sweden's Uppsala. While the classic image of the American Mafioso generally includes some form of Cadillac (in Paulie Walnuts' case, replete with Godfather horn), and the Uppsala types apparently prefer Ferrari Enzos, the Yakuza like them some left-hand-drive S-Class iron. Why? Status, brah-san. Status. Inside Line's Peter Lyon's got the scoop. More »

8:09 PM on Thu Mar 23 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
481 views, 2 comments

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S-Class Flambe: 2007 Luxo Machine Up In Smoke

Our pal Ashley over at eMercedesBenz posted some pics of a thoroughly crispy-crittered '07 S-Class. Not just burnt, the poor machine looks like it hit some sort of IED buried in the snow. Cold-weather guerilla warfare by a rival manufacturer? The rise of the violent proletariat in the Great White North? Or simply just a wiring fault? We have no clue, but dangs, that car sure is some kind of a well-done write-off! More »

5:53 PM on Mon Mar 20 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
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The Detroit News' $100,000 Gaffe

Notice anything wrong with this headline/photo combo? Apparently the web guys at The Detroit News didn't figure it out until later this morning, but one reader, Reader Jon (as we're fond of calling him), whose eyes are so sharp they may as well have been crafted by Jim Bowie hissowndamnself, cribbed a screenshot before the correction. Yes Virginia, sometimes people do replace Kiehl's facial scrub with with egg. More »

3:17 PM on Wed Jan 25 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
61 views, 1 comment

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More Shindiggin' With Dieter, Bluetec, GL-Class

Dieter went forth from Chrysler's booth and took command of his own, opening his first press conference as J rgen's replacement with a silly boardroom skit about what Americans want in a car. From there he espoused the wonders of the eighth-gen S-Class as well as the new Bluetec motors available this fall. The 50-state-legal diesels will also cut across company lines and make the jump to Chrysler Division vehicles, notably jeeps. More »

5:22 PM on Sun Jan 8 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
154 views, 1 comment

spy photos

Spy Photos: Mercedes S63 AMG

MPH scored some shots from the intrepid Hans G. Lehmann (no relation to Davey G. Johnson, in case there was any confusion) of the latest AMG-fondled S-Class Merc. Apparently featuring the 6.3 litre V8 that premiered in the R63 AMG in Frankfurt, the new ber-S seems to have something going on up top, but we can't tell if it's a glass roof or carbon fiber, but given BMW's M division's new penchant for high-tech roofing materials, we're betting on the latter. Die Joneses must be kept up with after all, nein? More »

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2:10 PM on Fri Nov 18 2005
By Davey G. Johnson
233 views, 2 comments

Latest by Ayrton Senna: Oh yeah -- the roof looks, to me, like the panorama (glass) roof found on current E & SL class MBs. Could also be the aforementioned CF or that adjustable-tint thing Ferrari's been working on. more »