The greatest Mercedes-Benz S-Class ever made was a 450. That number still appears on the decklid of S-Class models sold in Europe and other parts of the world. But today’s diesel-powered S450d is a ...

This may look like the sort of old, ordinary, big-bodied Mercedes-Benz that your grandfather drove back in the day. But it isn’t (though it could be, depending on how wealthy he was). Rather, it’s one ...

What the company had yet to attempt, however, was the classic Detroit-style hot rod package of shoehorning an embiggened motor into a more modestly sized platform. Both the 6.3 and the 6.9 cars were ...