GLS 2013 Mercedes-Benz GL - Reviews Thread

[rollo]

Respect, in there I read somethings usable and actually, maybe I just did not see the bigger picture in your argument in your previous posts. The core of it brought to mind many previous posts from other members archived in my mind. I had to read the 'paper trail' over again and to come into and actually take the time to see the bigger picture. Thanks

Much respect right back at you human!

 

[Betty Swollocks]

^ blimey, and I thought people entrusted to safeguard hundreds of lives on aircraft were meant to be emotionally stable.

Oh how wrong you are.

 

[rollo]

Oh how wrong you are.

You're a tough one to read Betty no doubt, but maybe it would be best for you to bathe in this very rare outpouring of agreement with your sentiment rather than to rub salt in a wound that does not exist?

Just teasing BTW.

 

[Kilcrohane]

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1306_2013_mercedes_benz_gl63_amg_first_test/

0-60 mph 4.7s
60-0 mph 104 feet!

 

[Kilcrohane]

the Autocar muppets are now beyond parody:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mercedes-benz/gl/first-drives/mercedes-benz-gl63-amg-first-drive-review

like a loathsome Turkish or Brazilian leader they probably believe the propaganda crap they serve up to their they believe adoring audiences, and will be headed for similar hubristic outcomes.

 

[Gianclaudio]

the Autocar muppets are now beyond parody:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/mercedes-benz/gl/first-drives/mercedes-benz-gl63-amg-first-drive-review

like a loathsome Turkish or Brazilian leader they probably believe the propaganda crap they serve up to their they believe adoring audiences, and will be headed for similar hubristic outcomes.

Those two last reviews of the GL, by Autocar, are beyond pathetic.

 

[Kilcrohane]

Those two last reviews of the GL, by Autocar, are beyond pathetic.

- it's called going for the Clarkson demographic - dumbed down, jingoistic, last refuge of the scoundrel, ... - basically it's desperation against a backdrop of a massive fall in buyers of the overpriced rag and relying solely on JLR's bloated marketing budget. The whole mag has become advertorials and hatchet jobs.

I blame Clarkson, for his singlehanded 'poisoning of the well' of once automotive journalism, pandering to the low brows, to make a fast buck, leaving a trail of destruction behind.

 

[Wolfgang]

2013 Mercedes-Benz GL450 First Drive
Honing The Arrow's Luxury Leviathan

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