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Burned and branded: Drivers sue Mercedes-AMG over front seat logo

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FOX Local
Cars and Trucks
Published August 8, 2026 5:20 PM MST
Published August 8, 2026 5:20 PM MST
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Mercedes-AMG E-Class Limousine E53 performance sedan interior on display at the AutoSalon press preview on January 09, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images)

The Brief

    • Two California residents claim they suffered burns caused by a metallic logo in the Mercedes-AMG vehicles.
    • The pair have filed a class action lawsuit in a federal court in California against the German automaker.
    • They claim the logo is placed where designers should have expected it to contact parts of an occupant’s body.

A pair of Mercedes-AMG drivers from California claim that a metallic logo embedded in their vehicles’ front seats gets so hot that it not only burned them, but it literally branded them.

Big picture view:

The duo has now filed a class-action lawsuit against the German automaker in a federal court in California, looking to get compensated for their medical expenses as well as their pain and suffering. They also are demanding that Mercedes-AMG pay to have the logo removed from other AMG drivers’ vehicles as well.

What they're saying:

The plaintiffs, Gabriel Lahijani and Karendeep "Karina" Bath, describe the metallic logo as a design defect and argue the raised logo is placed where the designers could have "reasonably expected [it] to contact an occupant’s upper back, neck, or shoulder," court documents show.

The backstory:

Lahijani, who lives in Los Angeles, stated in the lawsuit that he received second-degree burns on his back on May 31 when he got into his 2026 Mercedes-AMG E-Class wearing a tank top. The lawsuit cited a board-certified dermatologist who recorded first- and second-degree burns and described the injury as "AMG inscribed."

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Bath, who is from Chatsworth, claims she got similar burns about six weeks later, while wearing a sleeveless top. She said that her shoulder immediately touched the logo when she got into her Mercedes AMG, which caused a burning sensation. Over the course of the next few days, the lawsuit states, a mark that "darkened and became visible on her skin, consistent with a thermal contact burn" began to take shape, and that shape was an AMG logo.

Mercedes-Benz could not be reached for comment.

The Source: Information for this article was taken from The Associated Press. This story was reported from Orlando.

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