Is Stuttgart’s Latest People Carrier Finally Ready For The States? Much in the vein of Audi’s Sportback models or BMW’s slow-to-expand Gran Turismo range, Mercedes-Benz thinks it’s time to get excited about various sizes of its “sports tourer” subgroup.

Mercedes-Benz Back in the day, one team dominated Formula One like no other before it and none since. Michael Schumacher was driving, Ross Brawn was running the team and Aldo Costa was designing the cars. It was a winning combination, to say the least, one that yielded seven world championships.

Here’s an interesting tidbit we missed while scouring through BMW’s massive press release on the 2012 M5 . According to the text, BMW has employed a system it’s calling “Active Sound Design” on the new M5, which takes in engine speed and load data from the ECU and plumbs it through the stereo to play a real-time recording of the M5′s engine. Here’s BMW’s official explanation: The Active Sound Design technology specially developed for the new BMW M5 takes its cues from the driving situation at any one time to deliver an accurate reproduction of the engine’s sound through the car’s audio system

Mercedes-Benz is reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey for alleged defects in the company’s M156 V8. According to the plaintiffs, premature internal wear occurs because the engine uses cast nodular iron camshafts and 9310-grade steel valves

There were plenty of curiosities to see art the Frankfurt Motor Show this year

The new Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe is going racing, and it has its eyes set on conquering the DTM series .