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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicMercedes-Benz

Topic: Mercedes-Benz

After double digit growth in ‘best year ever’, Mercedes Benz to launch 10 models in India in 2023

The top-end vehicles segment of the German carmaker saw the highest growth of 69% in 2022 when the company sold over 3,500 cars priced above Rs 1 crore.

There’s a little bit of India in cars around the world today. It’s in the codes that run them

Several car companies, including General Motors and Ford, who have both left the India market, do a huge amount of their software development work in India.

Your car has more software than you think. And the manufacturer has the codes

A fundamental shift is being witnessed in the industry where software rather than hardware will determine the future.

Mistry’s death shows the importance of airbags. But they are pointless without seat belts

Many would consider Cyrus Mistry’s Mercedes-Benz GLC 220d ‘safer’. But there were several bad hot-takes on social media about the car's ‘rear’ airbags not getting deployed.

Let the Ambassador RIP. India has got new ‘power cars’ and just as well

Despite its build, the Ambassador was no place to be in if there was an accident. It was a vintage vehicle that was way past its sell-by date even in 1991.

Music, phone, tyre pressure, cruise – your car steering manages all these & turns the wheel too

Steering wheels have come a long way in the past couple of decades ever since steering-mounted controls became a thing in the late 1990s on top-end luxury cars.

Remember Skoda’s Laura? Car names can go horribly wrong and no one wants to be bold anymore

Not just lawyers, in order to avoid a repeat of the ‘Laura incident’, most car companies employ teams of linguists across the world.

Inflation made luxury cars even more expensive but sales remain in fast lane. See Mercedes

For years, the luxury car market in India was biased towards the entry-level. But today, cars below Rs 40 lakh account for the smallest fraction of sales.

Audi, Mercedes, BMW worried about low car sales in India: German envoy Walter Lindner

In interview to ThePrint, German Ambassador to India Walter J. Lindner says India & EU should have high-level economic dialogue on trade & investments.

The electric cars are here. Now how about selling them

Customers don’t like paying up for new technology they’re unsure about, and they’re worried they won’t reliably get to where they want to go.

On Camera

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.