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Not long after the 20th century transitioned into the 21st century, Mercedes Benz introduced to the world the C230 Kompressor sport coupe — a svelte, sexy automobile that one reviewer called “the ...

Maybe Klaus-Peter Claar got crosswise with DaimlerChrysler's board of management. Had a few too many Maß beers at the Cannstatter Volksfest and spilled bubespitzle down the boss's wife's blouse. How ...

It doesn't sound like a Mercedes," opined my passenger. She had a point. The supercharged, sixteen-valve, 1.8-liter DOHC in-line four in the C230 Kompressor has the aural quality of a vacuum cleaner.

"Survival" comes up in a conversation loosely focused on the 2002 C230 Kompressor Sport Coupe. Osthaus smiles broadly at the name. There's nothing really new in Mercedes-Benz's next American release, ...

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 ...

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" ...

From an acceleration point of view, the C230 is a bit disappointing... well, at least after getting out of the C55. If I had started with the C230, I don't think we would be having this conversation.

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 ...

David Roberts, 56, is national sales manager for an optical products distributor and lives in Mill Valley. Over the course of 20 years, starting in 1980, I have owned five Isuzu Troopers. All of them ...

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