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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Mercedes-Benz C230 2005 prices range from $9,900 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 ...

After having redone its entry-level line for 1998, you’d think the folks at Mercedes Benz would leave well enough alone for their most affordable sedan, the C230. But with increasing competition in ...

THE Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor Avantgarde SE scores a comfortable margin over the BMW 325i SE and the Jaguar X-type 2.5 V6 Sport, but is still more than £2,500 more expensive to run over three ...

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 ...