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It used to be that when a consumer went to purchase a new luxury vehicle, he or she did so with an eye turned to the size of the engine. Most American consumers have been raised to believe that bigger is better, particularly when it comes to power and the entertainment one could glean from driving a big-engine automobile.

Put as simply as possible, things have changed considerably along those lines over the course of…

It has become expressly clear over the course of the last few years that luxury automobiles are going to have to become more efficient if they hope to adhere to federal efficiency guidelines and, frankly, continue drawing in customers that really do want to be environmentally conscious and keep monthly gas consumption at a reasonable level.

It looks like Mercedes-Benz will do that by adding a slew of Mercedes-Benz hybrid vehicles to the stable over…

The luxury auto game has changed a lot over the course of the last five or ten years, and vehicles like the 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 are a perfect example of how well those changes are working for all kinds of consumers. Philosophically, the GLA250 was put together to serve as a crossover on the more affordable end of the Mercedes-Benz stable.

So what makes this small luxury crossover so desirable, aside from the price? It…

In an age where nearly everything in the auto industry has already been done, it can be challenging for automakers to come up with something that is both unique and recognizable enough to get consumers to bite. Mercedes-Benz, however, thinks they may have something with a new luxury plug-in hybrid minivan concept they're calling the Concept V-ision E.

Having debuted earlier this month at the Geneva Auto Show, the Concept V-ision E stood out…

The J.D. Power & Associates Reliability Study is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is helping gauge whether a consumer trusts a brand enough to want to come back to it at some point down the road. Based on three years' worth of consumer data that considers a number of criteria, The J.D. Power Reliability Study assigns each nameplate a score that represents the number of problems consumers have…

Luxury cars and SUVs are more attainable today than they ever have been, which is probably why Kelley Blue Book put out a list of the "Top 10 Cars Under $35,000" earlier this month. It's not surprising that two Mercedes-Benz models made the cut, as the automaker is world-renowned for making some of the best vehicles on the road today.

As your Mercedes-Benz dealer, we were very pleased to see that two of…

We've all heard that cars lose a massive amount of their value the minute a consumer drives them off of the dealership lot, and in some cases that can absolutely be true. Some vehicles (none under the Mercedes-Benz nameplate, thankfully) can depreciate in value by as much as 36% in the first year alone, while the industry average for depreciation in the first year is 17%.

Cars are pieces of machinery, and as such…

On some levels there is a stigma about buying a luxury vehicle that is not “new,” due in large part to preconceived notions about the stereotype of a “used auto” lot that does everything possible to scam patrons out of their money to make a quick buck.

Buying a Certified Pre-Owned Mercedes-Benz from a respected Mercedes-Benz dealer (like us here at Fields Motorcars) is an entirely different experience, and the way that the auto industry…

Considering the most recent Super Bowl broke a record for viewership, we can all safely assume that a ton of people saw the new "Tortoise and the Hare" advertisement from Mercedes-Benz. Apparently, the commercial did its job, as searches for the Mercedes-Benz AMG® GT S featured in the spot have been up several hundred percent (and in one case, a few thousand percent) in the days and weeks since originally airing.

Specifically, AutoTrader searches for…

In our last post we talked about how excited fans of Mercedes-Benz in Florida should be about the upcoming Mercedes-Benz C350 Plug-In Hybrid, perhaps the most dynamic, comfortable and efficient hybrid that we've seen, but as the North American International Auto Show in Detroit has wrapped up, we felt it would be worth taking a quick spin around the other essential bits of Mercedes-Benz news coming out of Motor City over the course of…