X Marks the Treasure
Is the new V6 X-class a pickup to be treasured or just a piece of fools gold? From your childhood, you’d remember the conquests of Pirates and their infamous treasure maps where ‘X’ marked a spot where treasure was kept or you’d know about this from the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie franchise. Well there […]
Mercedes-Benz E 400 Review – A Pearl in two shells
(Well ok, three if you add in the Cabriolet) Mercedes-Benz E 400 Review New Zealand Apparently, there are Saloon people and there are those that have a penchant for the styling of a Coupe, Mercedes-Benz New Zealand figured they’d let me decide what MY preference was by letting me review two E400 models, back to […]
Mercedes-Benz GLC Review – A Very Classy Package
Mercedes-Benz GLC Review New Zealand Like many other New Zealanders, it’s around about now that I start thinking of my summer holidays. Where to go, where to stay, how to get there and what to do. There are so many options out there and to be perfectly honest even when we’ve agreed on a destination, […]
Unstoppable Force – An Outback experience with Mike Horn and Mercedes
An amazing Mercedes experience in Australia Mike Horn has circumnavigated the globe more times than a NASA satellite. He’s climbed to the top of numerous 8,000+ metre peaks (without oxygen), walked unassisted to both Poles and all the way around the North one, swam the Amazon, played with sharks and piranhas and even had a […]
Getting our A into G with Mercedes-Benz
There’s little doubt that Mercedes-Benz have a very impressive SUV line-up (well vehicles in general for that matter). Boasting everything from the 5.5L V8 powered AMG GLS 63 (and of course the G-Wagon) to the all new X. Large or small and whatever the terrain, it would appear that Mercedes-Benz have a seat that will […]
CLA 45 AMG review – X Marks the Spot
Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson first published Treasure Island in 1883; it is an adventure novel full of Pirates, Swashbuckling Buccaneers, talking parrots, far off lands and high sea high jinks. It’s a tale of Good guys verses Bad, Brotherhood, Loyalty, Greed and Mutiny all shrouded in the quest to find buried treasure. Despite some of […]
Mercedes-Benz V 250 BlueTEC AVANTGARDE.
Being the largest in their premium passenger car range the V-Class comfortably seats 8 people but being a Mercedes it has a style and luxury that you wouldn’t expect in an MPV. LED technology brightens its pretty face and the sloping screen gives it ‘the most aerodynamic in the segment’ status plus assists in its […]
Mercedes-AMG S63 Coupe – Lean on me
Construction of the Bell Tower in the town of Pisa Italy started in 1173 and (due to wars) took 199 years to build – completed in 1372. The tower’s ‘lean’ was essentially there from the start due to genius builders deciding that soft ground was far easier to dig through and build on. But as […]
Mercedes Hilton Special Delivery – final
Final installment of the roadtrip from Auckland to Dunedin taking in all the Hilton’s while delivering the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class to the southern parts of NZ. A glorious trip. 1800k’s, 4 Hilton hotels, 1 ferry trip, 1 racetrack and lots and lots of glorious NZ countryside. – Hope you enjoyed the ride, I know I […]
Special Delivery pt 4 – Mercedes Hilton
Christchurch to Queenstown. Part 4 of the 5 part series taking the new E-Class Mercedes from Auckland to Dunedin, stopping at all the Hilton’s in NZ along the way. Here we see snow capped Southern Alps and i get to explain the amazing LED headlights on the E-Class. Subscribe now to keep updated
