2017 Mercedes-AMG C43 Sedan: Affalterbach’s Sleeper

Purists may knock Mercedes-AMG’s entry-level—and mushrooming—range of “43” models for watering down the brand, as they lack the hand-built engines and mad power output of AMGs with numerically higher badges. Yet even Affalterbach’s modest fettling has produced some...

What is Hill Descent Control?

Of all the modern driver assistance systems out there, none is more self-explanatory than hill descent control. The very name puts in layman’s terms exactly what it does — controls the speed at which a vehicle descends a hill. Originally developed for off-road...