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Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler has continuously denied allegations that the German carmaker knowingly fitted their diesel vehicles with defeat devices to cheat emissions testing. Despite this, however, they continue to cooperate with authorities and pay off fines and compensation, and recall affected vehicles.In 2020, the company promised to pay £1.2 billion (or $1.5 billion) to US authorities to settle diesel emissions claims involving Mercedes-Benz. Around 250,000 cars and vans were al...

The history of many cars such as the Fiesta, Escort, and even the Ranger pickup truck began after the 1973 crisis. The Ford Focus, which replaced the Escort, was released in 1998. The Ford Focus is...

The first tuner to treat the newMercedes X-Class pickup truck like a proper Benz is Prior Design. They have come have come up with a wide body package for the workhorse which kind of nullifies the whole point of the vehicle, but makes it look a helluva lot cooler. The PD500 package as they call thePrior Design Mercedes X-Class wide body consists of a few simple parts that replace the original components. They are designed for the sole purpose of increasing the X-Class’ sex appeal. So you get massive new bumpers and skirts and fenders. And while these are not very practical for, say, farm work, they look absolutely sensational when you cruise around town in your tricked-out truck....

I am not suggesting for a minute that cars aren’t good-looking these days or that we don’t get iconic designs anymore. The issue is, they seem to be a dying breed. Compared to only a few decades ago the number of truly beautiful new cars is at an all-time low, and it keeps dwindling as the focus shifts to safety and efficiency and, these days, electrification. The automobile has been around for more than a hundred years now, and in that time designers have tried pretty much everything. It appears they are almost at their wits’ end. There are only so many tricks of creativity one can come up with when one is restricted not just bynewfangled regulations, but also the natural order o...

At first sight what you are looking at here might appear to be a standard BMW M2. But upon closer inspection one notices a number of carbon additions giving the little sports car a unique and serious look. This is the3D Design BMW M2 equipp...

It must be pretty clear now to everybody who, only a few years ago, dismissed the idea of electric cars going mainstream that that’s where we’re headed. This, and the whole autonomous craze which has come with it, is changing our motoring habits. We’re already adapting new measures in this electric age to cope with the advantages and shortcomings of the new technologies. But how will this monumental change affect the looks of our cars? Your first thought might be that it won’t – that car design has nothing to do with how the machine works. But if you think a little deeper about it and look at the history of automobile, you realize that design is usually the first thing that changes every...

It may not look so at first glance, but Fiat Tipo is one of the coolest cars one can buy in Europe today. It is effortlessly handsome and chic, and has a disinterested and non-nonchalant attitude about it that makes it kind of sexy! Now they have made it even more enticing with theFiat Tipo S-Design which comes with exclusive interior and exterior appointments. Available in 5-door and Statio...

A five-strong design and modelling team working for a Chinese company decided to take on a humongous task to prove their extraordinary prowess. The challenge was to re-imagine thePorsche 908 Long Tail race car of 1968, and judging by what we are seeing here they have pulled it off. Even Porsche themselves were impressed when they saw the Porsche 908-04 Concept which the team presented to them...

Dacia, as you may know,is a sub-brand of Renault tasked with making cheap cars. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing these days. Thanks to the latest trends and technologies even cheap cars can be quite cheerful. That is certainly the case with the 2018 Dacia Duster with its cool new looks. This time it seems the designers have put some actual effort into peing this car. They have even go...

Don’t read too much into this, but the head of Peugeot design has recently peed a mode-dayPeugeot 205 GTI. He maintains this was a fun project he did for himself to blow off some steam with, but we won’t be surprised at all if a few years from now they actually bring back the icon. Resurr...

Following the footsteps of GTA Spano the new Spanish firm DSD Design Motorsport wants a piece of the hypercar businessand by the looks of things they’re coming prepared. This is the Boreas, named after a virile Greek god, and it claims some serious numbers. It’s all very interesting because t...

Pretty much everything about the previous generation Mercedes C63 AMG is exciting as hell, except for the interior, which is bland and dull and boring as… well, hell. Not to worry though, because tuners like Carlex Design can. provided you give them a big fat check, tu things around and make t...

When the designer were trying to come up withPrior Design Mercedes C-Class Coupe body kit, we suspect, they thought about what Megan Fox would look like in a lingerie, because the result is just as hot! This is hands down one of the best looking car...

It is inevitable for every new Range Rover that comes out of the factory to get a Kahn treatment, and so, even though it did take a while, here it is now, the KahnRange Rover Sport SVR Supercharged which the tuner calls Pace Car. What Kahn have done here, in their own words, is taking the most accomplished SUV RR has ever made and tu it into the “ultimate blend of luxury and performance.”That i...

The interior experts at Carlex Design have tried their hand this time at a very high-end supercar. The amazingCarlex Design Ferrari F12 Berlinetta sort of takes Ferrari themselves to school on how to properly trim the inside of a grand tourer in a maer that is both classy and practical.The cabin...

When we first featured the wide body Prior Design Porsche Macan a lot of you guys liked what you saw. And since the customer is always right, we decided to bring you shots of a new version of this amazing machine, this time in the loveliest shade of blue known to man! Since we have already discussed the details of the styling package for Prior Design Porsche Macan we’re not going to waste your time reiterating the facts here. But just for a real quick recap, the package consists of custom front and rear bumpers, front spoiler and grilles, rear diffuser, extended side sills, front and rear wide arches with vents, rear roof spoiler, and an optional rear tailgate spoiler. The wheels featur...

The latest tricked-out BMW the guys from the car maker’s Abu Dhabi showroom want to show you is a Melboue Red BMW 4 Series Convertible featuring a number of extras that will melt the heart of any Bimmer lover in the land. This is car has the sweetest 4 Series specs short of an M4. The unique and Individual paint job aside, the Melboue Red BMW 4 Series Convertible boasts a full carbon fiber M Performance package that contrasts with the exterior color and adds to the visual drama of this car. You have the chin spoiler with the large intakes and carbon surrounds, the blacked-out grille and smoked lights, carbon side skirt inserts, carbon mirror caps, rear diffuser insert, and carbon tailpi...

Wide body kit fans in Europe and America have different go to tuners when they feel their standard cars are a bit too narrow. In America the flared wheel arch enthusiasts have Liberty Walk, while in Europe the authority in this segment is Prior Design. Here we take a closer look at one of their finer products, the PD650 based on the BMW 6-Series Gran Coupe. Built by PP-Performance, this Prior Design BMW 650 Gran Coupe has all the goodies a hard-core wide body kit fan would want on his or her car. It’s got the swollen wheel arches and the accompanying sills, it’s got the aero parts including front and rear spoiler, diffuser, tale wing and extra air ducts, and it’s got the suspension and ...

The Gulfstream, which is what this FAB Design Mercedes SLS styling kit is known in the business, remains to this day the sickest, biggest and most elaborate body kit for the German super car. That is probably why when the builders of this particular one, RACE! South Africa, revisited the project they decided only to wrap it. Yep, the FAB Design Mercedes SLS was still pretty much perfect in every other way. That is, of course, if you like to make an already huge car even bigger and imposing and build on its showoff-y features such as the swollen arches and gullwing doors. If you are into this sort of thing the Gulfstream is right up your alley. It comes with custom bumpers featuring a sp...

We have already shown you what a coupe version of the Mercedes S63 AMG looks like when you add some MEC Design spice to it. Now let’s check out the convertible version which, in our opinion, works better with those mods. MEC Design Mercedes S63 Cabrio is undoubtedly one of the nicest examples of this car we’ve seen so far. As usual, MEC’s touches are fairly light but they add up to make a big difference in the way the car looks. On the outside MEC Design Mercedes S63 Cabrio benefits from a set of 22 inch CC5 wheels which alone are enough to give the big Merc a more exclusive look. In the case of this open-top S63 the tuner has painted the wheels gloss black to complement the white exter...