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Mercedes Vision GLK FREESIDE & TOWNSIDE Concepts @ 2008 NAIAS
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The Mona Lisa of offroaders? From Car Design News. 
Gorden Wagener, VP of Advanced Global Design at Daimler Benz, explained to CDN how the design team "really wanted to add a new character to the sector" and chose to do this by taking inspiration from the classic G-class that started life as the G-wagon nearly thirty years ago. As Wagener said: "There are a lot of more unified designs in this sector", but the design team wanted the car to be "more honestly off-road" with its very upright windshield and quite square forms.
Gorden Wagener, VP of Advanced Global Design at Daimler Benz, explained to CDN how the design team "really wanted to add a new character to the sector" and chose to do this by taking inspiration from the classic G-class that started life as the G-wagon nearly thirty years ago. As Wagener said: "There are a lot of more unified designs in this sector", but the design team wanted the car to be "more honestly off-road" with its very upright windshield and quite square forms.
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