Daimler, makers of the mid-range and luxury Mercedes-Benz line of automobiles has declared a record volume of sales for 2011 disproving market expectations of a drop in sales due to reduced liquidity of households owing to the global financial crisis. Achieving year end sales of 1,260,912 Mercedes Benz units, chief executive of Daimler Dieter Zetsche [...]

Well, looks like Daimler finally made its mind about Maybach and decided to just get rid of it. Read More… The slow-selling brand never returned the huge investment that was made for it and apart from a few Arabs and a couple of rappers nobody liked it. You see, Maybach’s biggest problem is Rolls Royce [...]

Daimler is finally going to make a final decision on Maybach in the next couple of weeks. The luxury brand is currently on life support. Should they pull the plug? Read More… You see, the problem is Daimler has invested heavily in the Maybach, in hope to have a proper rival for Rolls Royce. But [...]

As you might have read here before while watching that honking birthday song video, Daimler Benz is celebrating its 125th birthday which in other words is the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile. To make this celebration even more memorable, they just unveiled a very artistic sculpture called Aesthetics 125, in a ceremony [...]

Damiler AG announced today a new agreement with the Chinese BYD Company Limited to develop small electric cars. This new 50:50 research and technology joint venture is called Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co. Ltd. Daimler will bring in their expertise in electric vehicle architecture and safety, while BYD takes care of battery technology and [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around about the future models by Mercedes Benz. We had news about a shooting brake version of the CLS to be launched next year, and now other reports have emerged suggesting that Daimler is working on an AMG V12-powered version of the E-class! The E65 AMG has not [...]

Looks like wealthy Arab royalties have found a new way to blow up their not so hard earned oily dollars! and that’s buying car companies! We’ve heard about Abu Dhabi’s investment in Daimler and their negotiation with Opel (which has apparently failed). Now comes the Emir of Qatar with his interest in having some stakes [...]