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Written by Ollie Kew
For the second time in a week, we"ve got a new Mercedes-Benz luxury SUV to ponder. Only, this one"s a lot more conventional than the all-electric EQ C that arrived earlier this month. It"s the new GLE, folks. The GLE, for those of you not quite up to date on your Mercedes nomenclature, is what was once the ML-class, which morphed into a G-badged name structure in 2015. Mercedes proudly trumpets that it originally invented the posh SUV class back in 1997, but this new one will have a host of rivals like the latest BMW X5, Range Rover Sport, Volvo XC90, Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne and perhaps even Merc"s own EQ C, if momentum builds behind the EV cause. If the GLE doesn"t look as aggressively thrusting as you"d hope for a classic I"m considerably better than you and so is my privately educated offspring" wagon, fret not. Right now, Mercedes has only released images of the Sport trim, which won"t be coming to the UK, because UK buyers are insecure magpies and need AMG-line trim, complete with extra fake grilles and mock tailpipes. As bluff SUVs go, we reckon this isn"t too bad an effort, looks-wise.
Date written: 11 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13290
For the second time in a week, we"ve got a new Mercedes-Benz luxury SUV to ponder. Only, this one"s a lot more conventional than the all-electric EQ C that arrived earlier this month. It"s the new GLE, folks. The GLE, for those of you not quite up to date on your Mercedes nomenclature, is what was once the ML-class, which morphed into a G-badged name structure in 2015. Mercedes proudly trumpets that it originally invented the posh SUV class back in 1997, but this new one will have a host of rivals like the latest BMW X5, Range Rover Sport, Volvo XC90, Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne and perhaps even Merc"s own EQ C, if momentum builds behind the EV cause. If the GLE doesn"t look as aggressively thrusting as you"d hope for a classic I"m considerably better than you and so is my privately educated offspring" wagon, fret not. Right now, Mercedes has only released images of the Sport trim, which won"t be coming to the UK, because UK buyers are insecure magpies and need AMG-line trim, complete with extra fake grilles and mock tailpipes. As bluff SUVs go, we reckon this isn"t too bad an effort, looks-wise.
Date written: 11 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13290
