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Mercedes-Benz GL pulled their face and ass

GL pulled their face and ass. But they forgot to make him more like Mercedes ... About the new Mercedes-Benz GL, you know everything he is the same as the old one. Usually the word restyling, like Feylift, Ana means nothing serious.

This Mercedes GL is no exception. But the PR managers still tried to inflate the event to the scale of the premiere. Two planes with reporters from Sheremetyevo went to Krasnodar. There was a briefing in the local hotel. Riding carefully, but most of all afraid of the Adyghe traffic cops. It seems like part of the Test drive route will be held along the Adyghe Republic, and there the family announces mourning if a girl is born, because she will not be able to become an inspector.

The most interesting question since the creation of Mercedes-Benz, of course, is this: why do people pay such money for it? And they told us about this. The fact is that, designing new cars, the Germans first focus on the main Russian customers for civil servants.

It explains everything. The Minister of Health refuses Rolls-Royce in favor of the cheaper Mercedes-Benz. So the price of the German brand fades and social tension is removed. We hope that the restyled version of GL with a new radiator grille and a tightened backwards will not disappoint the servants of the people.

Use the bolt
The main test came on a mountain road laid along the gas pipeline of a blue stream and covered with thick milk fog. We went to the Mercedes GL 500 with a journalist from a passenger publication, and in front of each pit he slowed down. To the increased energy intensity of an SUV at a price of four million, you still need to get used to it.

The pits were over, and water barriers to recall that the depth of Brod for Mercedes GL is still 600 mm permissible to the manufacturer.

Soon we were offered to transfer to the diesel version and ... repeat the same route. Yes, GL swims well and is not afraid of holes. But everything related to Mercedes GL has already been chewed a hundred times. Could come up with something original. In the end, a more passable premium-healer cannot be found. Doesn't he pull the limit of his abilities? To come up with a real adventure for him? I think we will do so a little later.


For me, Mercedes GL has been and remains the pinnacle of luxury SUVs, unattainable either for Range Rover or Lexus LX. But this praise with a big advance. The language does not turn to call it ideal. Still, he is far from an example of what we call the spirit of Mercedes. Where is that divine smoothness that you immediately feel when falling behind the wheel of R- or, for example, E-class? Definitely, there is something to work on, and in this regard, the current restyling passed, as the musicians say, past money.






Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo Mercedes-Benz
 

A source: Magazine 4x4 [March 2010]