Donkey-drawn carts shared the streets with shiny new Mercedes as men in business suits shouldered their way down sidewalks with men dressed in the traditional robes known as galabiya.

The shiny Mercedes and BMW cars that prowl Moscow's streets are conspicuously absent.

That's because the first blockbuster purchase Navratilova splurged on after earning her first $100,000 back in 1975 was a big, shiny expensive Mercedes, the star of the showroom.

A few minutes later, he returns with the "family car," a shiny black Mercedes, the G-class.

CHAPTER 30 Later that afternoon, the Fuhrer and the Engineer sat on the warm hood of the shiny, hand-tooled Mercedes.

One was my Spitfire, top up to keep the cats out, and the other was a long, shiny black Mercedes with red-and-white butcher knives painted on the doors.

A family in Queens - father, mother, two kids under five - had gone for a ride in their shiny new Mercedes.

In Berlin, a shiny black Mercedes pulled up in front of the La Baroness.

There was a shiny black Mercedes he wanted to pull in ahead of me.

A shiny, new black Mercedes blaring loud music drives by and splashes them with mud.