This year has seen several new diesel passenger vehicles hit U.S. roads, and last fall, we were able to spend a full weekend with the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 BlueTEC 4matic crossover. We'd driven ...

Engine%3A New diesel's a honey%3B smooth power%2C good mpg Shifter%3A Now an electronic column lever%2C and very well done Styling%3A An acquired taste The GLK 250 SUV is small and funky-looking, and ...

Diesel engines are creeping into well-known vehicles you might never have expected to see harboring an oil burner. The outlook is slowly changing, but most people will react similarly to news that ...

Launched for 2009 and notably refreshed for the 2013 model year, the Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class luxury compact crossover has never been particularly green. But with the mid-year addition of a new diesel ...

Fans of Mercedes-Benz's smallest SUV and diesel enthusiasts alike have reason to rejoice with the introduction of the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class lineup. In addition to smoother styling, which rounds ...

Audi and Mercedes-Benz both began offering diesel-powered compact crossovers in the U.S. last year. The U.S. isn’t historically a market prone to diesel purchases, but that’s slowly starting to change ...

Aside from the smoke, and the smell, and the clatter, and the hard starting in winter, the traditional objection to diesel engines was cost. Compared with a similar gasoline engine, diesels often cost ...

Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...

It wasn’t long ago that diesel vehicles were so deafening that conversations had to be yelled, so polluting that standing behind a tailpipe could dust a person in fine particulate. It’s an archaic ...

In the tense days of this nation’s twin gas crises in the 1970s, one automaker dominated U.S. roads with diesel cars: Mercedes-Benz. The automaker says that between 1975 and 1985, a majority of its ...

2014 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel & 2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 BlueTEC ...

We reviewed the newly restyled 2013 GLK350 last summer, with News Editor Jennifer Geiger finding it a bit compromised in V-6 form, with a smallish interior, fussy audio and navigation system, and ...