Test drive Mercedes Benz GLK class X204 since 2008 SUV

We get acquainted with the updated Mercedes GLK and G

The updated Mercedes GLK and G-class models I tried the other day on the winding paths of the French Alps. And what? GLK both outside and inside now fully corresponds to an intra -corporate style. The corners and broken surfaces of the body were consumed, and the interior became different at all.


The updated GLK can be distinguished by a bumper that has received more spectacular plasticity, by a new radiator grille and a other more rounded headlight with LED boomerangs


A chrome diffuser is striking in the back, into which the exhaust pipes are integrated, as well as the changed filling of the lamps

New devices are certainly beautiful, but at dusk to read them at once problematic scouring of all the last Mercedes. A gloss, non -triviality, high cost and comfort inside added better materials. And what are the new rounds of ventilation deflectors stand, it is a pleasure to twist them! The selector of the automatic transmission from the central console moved to the steering column, instead of it on the tunnel now a couple of cup holders. Here, perhaps, is all visible differences ...


Updated GLK interior

Engineers say that GLK pendants settled. It was possible to try several versions, gasoline and diesel, with a sports packet and without. And, in general, I did not feel much difference in behavior with dorestyling. The fact is that the assorted from various power units and modifications in themselves suggest several different habits of the masses (pressed and unscrewed), amusements, the characteristics of springs and shock absorbers.


Again, the tires contribute. Some of the versions are a little softer, some slightly tougher. But the average temperature in the ward remained unchanged in GLK is still comfortable, quiet, convenient. Unless the steering (it is everywhere with an electric power) in gasoline versions with a sports package I liked the information of the drive higher and the rubber artificiality in the lesser-wiser efforts, and the reaction due to the shorter rail is more safer.

But an interesting thing is the clearance of standard versions decreased by 20 mm and became 177 mm. Suspensions with a sports package imply even smaller road clearance of 157 mm. But the versions equipped with an off -road package Offroad Engineering is higher than standard performance of 30 millimeters.


However, Offroad Engineering on off -road is preferable not only thanks to the best geometric cross -country ability. Electronics, which controls the clutch of the center differential and brakes, is a little different here. It earlier and sharply laments differential and wheels with diagonal hanging. In addition, there is a help system for descent from the mountain (the speed is regulated), while even in reverse can be descended.


Our GLK will be sold only with automatic transmission and flagship gasoline 3.5-liter six with two force degrees: 250 hp, 340 nm (GLK 300 version) and 306 hp, 370 nm (version GLK 350) . But earlier a powerful version of the engine developed 272 forces. Surely, a little later there will be other motors, including diesel engines.


As before, the G-class is collected manually at the Austrian Mercedes plant in the city of Grats. And handmade, even if the volume of production is more than 6,000 pieces per year, is always the road

G-class Foreva Young. No matter how much they have read the death of him, he is more alive than all the living. The car is irrational, excess and even anti -human. 99.9% of it bought, they never use the potential put into it even by a quarter. The geometric patency of the frame SUV is phenomenal, and the possibilities of transmission with three differentials blocking separately allow us to work miracles. Praising over the stones, scribbled to almost vertical slopes, overcoming intricate excesses and slopes are sinking to the way the German soldier performs it with. Of course, the rubber should be appropriate.


It is redundant not only by cross -country ability. The power and pulling of the highest versions makes you scratch at the temple at the temple. A 5.5-liter eight with a pair of turbochargers on G 63 AMG produces 544 forces 760 nm (earlier the flagship was G55 AMG with a 507-horsepower engine). With a mass of 2.5 tons, a shot from a place up to 100 km/h takes only 5.4 seconds! Scary, honestly. For nothing that the maximum speed is limited at the mark of 210.


Restyling G-class affected the optics (now the garland of LED running lights), a radiator grille, a rear view mirrors, lanterns and ...

Drive on such a car is comparable to the movement on a self -propelled installation. Only to go, to bring and shoot, the last is the whole crew, and in G 63 AMG you do everything yourself. On the road, you are all the time in tension with a constantly charged gun, and you constantly besiege yourself as if not to shoot, as if not to shoot. And this is difficult! It’s so easy to get a kick in the back and breathtaking acceleration to the accompaniment of two bifurcated Jericho pipes! A trimmed exhaust, bred under both rear doors, is bubbling throughout the district about your superiority and success. Well, how can I not crush? Real acceleration and chords subjugate themselves. They form and strengthen the conditioned reflex: I gave pleasure. With this motor you become primitive. Huge, strong, with a unclosed club in his hands. Sadil, ate the warm meat of the mammoth and ran on. After all, it is not for nothing that the flagship Gelendvagens are taken for the role of those accompanies to the motorcade with especially important persons.


Cortege with a motorcade, security for guarding ... serfs, in fact, anyway what to ride on, they are paid for it. And if you look from the side of a person choosing a G-class for himself? The insidiousness of the G 63 AMG is that the possibilities of a crazy blessed eight of the chassis cannot realize. Gelendvagen itself is a log. That takes! Everything here is against common sense, everything is opposed to plague dynamics: the mass, and the high center of gravity, and unreasonable bridges, and the frame, and this one, damn it, army hypercubism.

Slughing reactions when turning the steering wheel, the result of the work of the antediluvian steering gearbox is a screw-sharing nut, like a GAZ-53! To tuck in the turn of this seal, you still need to manage. The brakes on the alpine serpentine are constantly burning, they seem to be always in action from pressing the pedal, then at the esp. And here she works on the first sneeze and strangles, strangles, strangles ... After all, a high G-class, even on the low and more strict AMG-hut suspension, is so rolling in corners and shifts from side to side during rebuilding, which becomes bad.



... interior. The dashboard in the spirit of all the last Mercedes. The high commander landing itself does not allow to relax. But this is better than an army seat installed on a metal box. The doors clap with the sound of a tin can, not everyone can seize the rear seats. And there are many such surprises

In Russia, prices for an updated G-class will be announced a little later. But how much these handsome manual assemblies will cost, it is already possible to estimate. In Germany, the price begins from a mark of 137,500 euros. So, with all the duties-collections, the SUV will pull 7.5 million rubles. But this is not the limit, Daimler prepared for especially sophisticated even more plague version G 65 AMG. And here you certainly hold on 12 cylinders, 612 horses and 1000 nm. The cost in Germany is 264 180 euros, we have more than 14 million! For a minute, the last word of the technique is an aluminum wing of a seagull with carbon cardan SLS AMG is slightly cheaper than 11, 5 million rubles. Eh, the most interesting Germans to try and did not give ... only eyes!

Vitaly Kabyshev
Photo: Vitaly Kabyshev and Mercedes
 

Source: Auto.mail.ru