On February 17, 1894, Rudolf Diesel persuaded his "rational heat engine" to run for more than a few fitful sputters, and the age of compression ignition-no spark required!-was born. You may wonder why ...

Imagine driving from New Orleans to Nashville, or Charlotte to Indianapolis, or going roundtrip from Dallas to Little Rock, on a single tank of fuel in a mid-size Mercedes-Benz luxury sedan. It ...

Rewind the clock about 20 years and besides looking at some bad clothes and the pinnacle of rock ’n’ roll hair bands, you’d see diesel-powered cars accounting for 80 percent of all Mercedes-Benzes ...

If you think diesel engines are only for semis, heavy pickups, and parsimonious commuters willing to suffer sluggish, smelly, smoky performance in pursuit of 25-percent-better gas mileage, this E320 ...

and extremely powerful. So good are they, and so efficient, that many automakers sell more diesels in Europe than gasoline models. Mercedes-Benz is a leader among diesel producers, which makes it ...

A narrow escape this week as the Discovery 3 that Shed was planning to bring to your attention was sold before his Amstrad word processor had had time to warm up. A shame in a way as it looked like a ...

If you are like us and visit online auctions sites such as eBay on a regular basis, you are bound to stumble upon the occasional strange find, but that usually has to do more with the car itself than ...

Fans of diesel automobiles generally fall into one of two categories: the pragmatists, who admire such cars for their efficiency, durability, and grunt; and the iconoclasts, who get off on the oil ...

In the early 1990's I had an "hour-long-with-good-traffic" daily commute into downtown Ottawa. The decision to buy my first diesel car, a Volkswagen Golf, seemed wise at the time. It's not like the ...

I can’t understand why anybody would buy a saloon car any more. Take any executive model as an example and there’s no contest on which is the better looking or the most practical. Audi A4? Easily the ...

During work on the new Mercedes-Benz E-class, the manufacturer spent an average of £8.2 million every week developing the car. It kept this pace up for two solid years until it was happy with the ...