From the July 2003 issue of Car and Driver. You might have noticed that periodically we find occasion to be unkind to a vehicle. The introduction of the Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor "sports coupe" ...

For various reasons my daily driver is heading into semi-retirement. Purchase price is more than an issue than running costs as do a very low annual mileage. Coming back from looking at a Ford Focus I ...

The Mercedes-Benz C230 2003 prices range from $10,010 for the basic trim level Coupe C-Class C230 Kompressor to $16,170 for the top of the range Coupe C-Class C230 Kompressor Evolution Amg. The ...

* Price is based on Glass's Information Services third party pricing data for the lowest priced Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2003 variant. The Price excludes costs such as stamp duty, other government ...

What happens when you cross a sport sedan with an entry-level luxury car? This sounds like the setup for a joke, but there's little humor in the answer. The "entry level" and "sport-sedan" combo ...

The first thing that caught my eye as I approached the Mercedes C230 was the chrome "1.8" badge on its rear hatch. A 1.8-liter hatchback from Mercedes? Small-car owners may associate the words ...

Tuesday morning, keys are tossed to me as I sit at my desk. Keys belonging to the Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor Sport sedan sitting in the company garage. I hadn't been behind the wheel of a Benz ...

STUTTGART -- Mercedes-Benz will drop supercharged Kompressor gasoline-powered engines from its lineup in favor of turbochargers. Mercedes will add a turbocharged 2.0-liter gasoline engine for the A ...