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Review: DS 4 is a compelling premium alternative with a smart exterior and the allure of elegance

It’s been well over a decade since the DS nameplate was revived by Citroën as a design-orientated alternative to German premium cars. Today, the standalone brand’s range includes the funky DS 3, the large DS 7 SUV, the DS 9 executive saloon and our test car this week, the DS 4.

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Take a seat and check out what Mercedes GLC offers

Mercedes has a special fragrance system to make the interior of its new GLC SUV smell nice. It talks about an individual, subtle, interior “fragrancing” experience that is fed to the cabin through three air vents.

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New Mercedes GLC now available here with its starting price just announced

the new Mercedes GLC has just gone on sale here, with prices for the executive SUV starting from €80,310.

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Review: Audi’s hulking flagship A8 limo gets a facelift and a greener V6 plug-in hybrid power plant

AS if there wasn’t enough luxury in the new A8, Audi has gone and super-sized it.

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Can a new car already be deemed ‘a future legend’? Mercedes seems to think so

Avert your gaze if you’re a dedicated “green motorist” because what follows is classic decadence from Mercedes (but there is something exciting about it too).

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Saloons coming soon: Audi, BMW and Mercedes roll out the big guns for 2023

It looks like this year will see the mother of all battles in the luxury saloon segment as the top three – Audi, BMW and Mercedes – roll out their big guns.

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Brendan O'Connor Opinion I’ll never forget the first time I took a drive in my trusty Mercedes. It was like being on Concorde

You can mark out a life in various ways. As we prepare ourselves to let go of the second car, I am thinking of the phases of my life marked out in cars.

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Review: Mercedes-Benz once again stakes its claim as maker of the world’s best luxury car with the S 580 e PHEV

As the transition to electric vehicles powers ahead, many car-makers, including Mercedes-Benz, plan to streamline their product line-up to try to increase profit margins. Rumours abound that “cheaper” models such as the A-Class and B-Class may be casualties in the drive to luxury-brand status. But there are no such concerns for this week’s test car, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class S 580 e LWB, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) with an all-electric range of more than 100km.

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Surging cost of making EVs is driving brands away from major shows

Even before there were widespread cancellations of motor shows due to the pandemic, many manufacturers had opted out of staging giant displays.

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German motor industry could screech to a halt in energy crisis

Germany’s giant carmakers may have secured their own energy supplies but thousands of small suppliers faced with a squeeze from soaring bills risk upsetting production through the winter.

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Review: Mercedes-Benz’s EQE electric car is refined, smooth and beautiful inside — and few can match it

In April 2016, the US comedy TV show Saturday Night Live featured a parody advertisement for a new Mercedes-Benz “AA-Class”. Revealed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld and Veep fame, it was the first fully electric luxury saloon powered entirely by AA batteries. She promised no more plugs or charging stations — just 9,648 AA batteries. “There are a million uses for these little wonders,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “Well, make that a million and one.”

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Explainer: Why some cars pass the NCT and others don’t – and what you can do to stop your motor failing the test

It is a simple question: how come some car models pass their NCT test in greater numbers than others?

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Not giving you a bum steer with Merc’s bright new EQE

This car-reviewing is a job that can leap up and bite you in the bum if you are not extremely careful. I recently reviewed the Mercedes EQS large electric saloon. I praised it to high heaven for the way it drove. I said I didn’t think there was much else out there quite like it overall.

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Review: The all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQS is exquisitely sumptuous — and eyewateringly expensive

Something unusual happens when you drive the new Mercedes Benz EQS: complete strangers want to peer inside it, passers-by swarm you with mobile phones and the curiosity around it is unmatched by anything I have tested lately.

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Review: The BMW 218d M Sport Active Tourer five-seater combines practicality with premium appeal for families

After nine years, for me, at the primary school gates, my last child has left and now he is just a month away from “big school” where he joins his older brother in September. I will miss the hugs at the gate and the friendships formed but not so much the last-minute text requests to send my child dressed in something yellow and the endless projects that seemed to be given only to parents.

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Mercedes CLS: How this 4dr coupé brings its own touch of class

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, or if you remotely care, but there seems to be a car award category for nearly everything these days. I’m waiting for one that bestows honour on a car that’s best for helping you walk the dogs.

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Mercedes roll out their new 7-seater electric SUV, the EQS

Mercedes unveiled their new SUV yesterday. The EQS goes on sale later in the year. It has room for up to seven people (with a third row of optional seats).

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A seven up with the best as Mercedes delivers one of the safest, quietest, coolest cars

Waves of nostalgia flow every time I test a seven-seater car. It goes back to many years ago and owning a Saab 95, the estate version of the rally-proven 96.

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How a trickle becomes a flow as Mercedes boosts ranks with new EV

What began as a trickle has become a flow. That’s what Mercedes says about the arrival of yet another electric vehicle – and I’m sure others are saying the same thing about theirs.

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When the chips are down: BMW beats Mercedes in battle for luxury car sales

BMW beat longtime rival Mercedes-Benz to the luxury-car sales crown for the first time since 2015 after better navigating the semiconductor shortage that has snarled auto output globally.

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C-Class fails to impress

THIS has been the week of Mercedes and could meet its apex today if Lewis Hamilton wins a record-breaking eighth Formula 1 world championship title in Abu Dhabi.

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Mercedes gives us a smooth operator with new C-Class

You’d wonder about executive saloons and what lies in wait for them. Indeed, you’d wonder about saloons in general. I mean they are a threatened species, what with all those SUVs and crossovers taking their patch.

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Subsidising the SUV brigade: Why it was the right call to pull the plug

It was no real surprise that the €2,500 government grant for hybrid plug-in vehicles was scrapped.

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Why you can plug in to this Merc for €140-a-year tax

Mercedes are certainly playing the plug-in hybrid game at full tilt these days.

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Motoring review: An affordable Mercedes EV – the sort that could ‘see me out’

My old dad was a massive hoarder. “It’ll come in useful one day,” was his stock reply when challenged. He also had a slightly misplaced sense of his own mortality.

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To Cavan: fast, safe and in luxury

On Monday my daughter and I hightailed it north to see my old friend Evelyn in deepest Cavan near the banks of Lough Sheelin. It was only by coincidence that we were driving an impressive Mercedes, as Evelyn is the sister-in law to one of the country’s biggest Merc dealers. Not that she drives one herself, preferring a VW Tiguan, but her heart is really with a 1999 Subaru Forester, of which I have written before, that lies looking a bit sorry for itself next to the garage. It was the pride and joy of her husband and my great friend Jim Rowe who, hard to believe, has now been dead 19 years.

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Charges and charging of electric cars

We’re told there is millions in pent-up savings just waiting to be released once Covid restrictions are lifted, and if non-essential retail is to open, one of the first places to bag yourself a big treat may be your local car dealer.

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Wave of new models pushes out range for electric vehicles

Range anxiety is rapidly becoming a thing of the past with a constant increase in distance between charges in newer models of electric cars.

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World Car of the Year rivals highlight the rush to EVs as choice for punters widens

IT is yet another significant sign of the times that two of the three models competing for this year’s World Car of the Year award are electric, and the third competitor is a hybrid.

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From the design-conscious to the outdoor adventurer there is an EV to suit 

Mercedes-Benz will officially reveal their new flagship electric car – the EQS – later this month, but in the meantime they have been  teasing us with details of the sumptuous interior.