Mercedes says it has to recall 136,751 M-Class SUVs in the United States for cruise controls that will not shut off when the brakes are engaged.

Daimler has dropped the hammer on its newly-refreshed Mercedes Benz M-Class lineup. There's actually not a whole lot of news here other than a restyled nose and tail, fresh interior materials, and two new safety features called "PRE-SAFE" and "NECK-PRO", which despite the capital letters sound pretty boring to us. What we…

First offered in '97 as a '98 model, the Mercedes M-Class SUV marked the automaker's first step into a shift from being a quaint regional luxe automaker into trying to play with the big boys on a global level. Step two was the "merger of equals" with Chrysler. Step three, which we all know to be profit, never so much…

First word that Frankfurt will host a Mercedes M-Class hybrid SUV hit the online megalopolis this afternoon. Powered by a version of the dual mode hybrid system developed in partnership with GM and BMW, the ML 450 Hybrid sustains system output of 250 kW/340 hp, with max torque of 354 lb-ft. All told, it reportedly gets …

We're hearing from our UK-based friends at Auto Express that the Teutonic side of the German-American not-so-much "merger of equals" could be readying a diesel-electric hybrid M-Class. They're quoting an unnamed senior source at Mercedes as saying

Mercedes adopted an ice skating theme — featuring hockey players cavorting with figure skaters (which is only illegal south of Ohio) — to launch two models powered by its 6.3-liter AMG V8 in the US this afternoon — the M 63 AMG and R 63 AMG models. They're the first US-bound models to get the company's first…

This is the point in the SUV horrorshow when all the kids in the audience gasp and throttle the wrist of the person next to them until there's not a trickle of circulation left running in the entire theater. It's what we in the biz call the "money shot" (er, or something like that). Next month in Frankfurt, Mercedes…