G-Class [Official] Mercedes-Benz G-Class Facelift (W463)


The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, colloquially known as the G-Wagon or G-Wagen (as an abbreviation of Geländewagen), is a four-wheel drive luxury SUV manufactured by Magna Steyr (formerly Steyr-Daimler-Puch) in Graz, Styria, Austria, and sold by Mercedes-Benz. Originally developed as a military off-roader, later more luxurious models were added to the line. In certain markets, it was sold under the Puch name as Puch G until 2000.
I wish that Mercedes would have put wood around the AC buttons in the GL class like they have done here...Would have added the extra tough for thr GL over the ML ...On this car i can only say Mercedes Keeep this G class running for ever it is AMAZING and the way MB upgrades it all the time but it still has the totally classic look>>>BRAVO Mercedes Benz..
 
The G will likely get another facelift before 2020, maybe even two more. I'm sure at some point the G550/500 model will get the newer 4.7L turbo V8.....just as Mercedes replaces that engine with something newer. I wish they would bring over the G350 diesel and a G500 Cabrio model. Could you imagine these in a U.S. showroom sitting next to a CL, SL and a SLS roadster?


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Its looks like a new retro design. It is these moments when I truly love Mercedes more than any other.


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Everything looks great except the ugly LEDs and COMAND screen. Couldn't they have at least put them inside the headlamp cluster and not bulging out like that? I noticed that they STILL don't offer KEYLESS GO?! It's embarrassing that a C-Class can have this and many Korean & Japanese cars, yet I still have fumble for the keys to open the door. I'd think the updates would allow them to configure it for the G-Class, but it seems they really can't be bothered to do it. I can't understand why a $100k+ luxury SUV wouldn't be available with a keyless start system in this day and age when MB even invented this technology 15-16 years ago! No thanks, I'll stick with what I have for many years to come.
 
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Yet none of those vehicles have anywhere near the curbside wattage of the G, and if you're looking for such things as a deal breaker on 30+ year old vehicle then you're looking at the wrong car. People who buy this truck couldn't care less about something as matterless as keyless go. It is likely left off due to cost of integrating such a system into a vehicle so old. My goodness talk about losing the plot.


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Yet none of those vehicles have anywhere near the curbside wattage of the G, and if you're looking for such things as a deal breaker on 30+ year old vehicle then you're looking at the wrong car. People who buy this truck couldn't care less about something as matterless as keyless go. It is likely left off due to cost of integrating such a system into a vehicle so old. My goodness talk about losing the plot.


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Honestly? Excuse me, but I highly doubt that the KEYLESS GO module is that heavy. In comparison to the 1990 model, so many additions have been made over the years, yet such a system is supposed to be incompatible? It's not as if I'm referring to the 2002 model year update, which was finished only 3 years after KEYLESS GO was patented. In my case, my focus is on the fact that in one volatile situation, not being able to unlock the doors faster put me in fatal danger. After that incident, I found myself driving my other car more often as entry/exit was more rapid. For so many changes made over the years it seems absurd that this would be the most difficult. I had asked my local MB dealers about the lack of the feature and I was told that either "It will be offered next year" or that they had no idea. I have never expected levels of refinement equal to the GL or Range Rover, as that is not what I chose it for. At the same time, a modern convenience that MB brought to the market in the W220 S-Class, would be nice to have 13 years on. The W463 has never been a bare and bones off-roader, but a luxury-performance version of the original, so it isn't outlandish to expect most of the modern luxuries MB offers on lower-end models. With your logic, all of the MY2013 updates are useless and one should be content with the equivalent of a 300GD instead of the current variant. That is like saying the S-Class doesn't need any memory settings for the driver or front passenger as it's for chaffeur-driven passengers. From COMAND to climate-controlled power seats, so many of the features my '09 has are not necessities, but they are present for a reason as they are expected at this level. I simply find it more worthwhile keeping my '09, as the MY2013 changes aren't sufficient enough to warrant the upgrade(nor affordable for me). In that case, I certainly haven't lost any plot. No clue why you think that.
 
Honestly? Excuse me, but I highly doubt that the KEYLESS GO module is that heavy. In comparison to the 1990 model, so many additions have been made over the years, yet such a system is supposed to be incompatible? It's not as if I'm referring to the 2002 model year update, which was finished only 3 years after KEYLESS GO was patented. In my case, my focus is on the fact that in one volatile situation, not being able to unlock the doors faster put me in fatal danger. After that incident, I found myself driving my other car more often as entry/exit was more rapid. For so many changes made over the years it seems absurd that this would be the most difficult. I had asked my local MB dealers about the lack of the feature and I was told that either "It will be offered next year" or that they had no idea. I have never expected levels of refinement equal to the GL or Range Rover, as that is not what I chose it for. At the same time, a modern convenience that MB brought to the market in the W220 S-Class, would be nice to have 13 years on. The W463 has never been a bare and bones off-roader, but a luxury-performance version of the original, so it isn't outlandish to expect most of the modern luxuries MB offers on lower-end models. With your logic, all of the MY2013 updates are useless and one should be content with the equivalent of a 300GD instead of the current variant. That is like saying the S-Class doesn't need any memory settings for the driver or front passenger as it's for chaffeur-driven passengers. From COMAND to climate-controlled power seats, so many of the features my '09 has are not necessities, but they are present for a reason as they are expected at this level. I simply find it more worthwhile keeping my '09, as the MY2013 changes aren't sufficient enough to warrant the upgrade(nor affordable for me). In that case, I certainly haven't lost any plot. No clue why you think that.
Interesting and a reasonable response. Is it not possible to retro fit something similar after the car has left the factory?
 
Honestly? Excuse me, but I highly doubt that the KEYLESS GO module is that heavy. In comparison to the 1990 model, so many additions have been made over the years, yet such a system is supposed to be incompatible? It's not as if I'm referring to the 2002 model year update, which was finished only 3 years after KEYLESS GO was patented. In my case, my focus is on the fact that in one volatile situation, not being able to unlock the doors faster put me in fatal danger. After that incident, I found myself driving my other car more often as entry/exit was more rapid. For so many changes made over the years it seems absurd that this would be the most difficult. I had asked my local MB dealers about the lack of the feature and I was told that either "It will be offered next year" or that they had no idea. I have never expected levels of refinement equal to the GL or Range Rover, as that is not what I chose it for. At the same time, a modern convenience that MB brought to the market in the W220 S-Class, would be nice to have 13 years on. The W463 has never been a bare and bones off-roader, but a luxury-performance version of the original, so it isn't outlandish to expect most of the modern luxuries MB offers on lower-end models. With your logic, all of the MY2013 updates are useless and one should be content with the equivalent of a 300GD instead of the current variant. That is like saying the S-Class doesn't need any memory settings for the driver or front passenger as it's for chaffeur-driven passengers. From COMAND to climate-controlled power seats, so many of the features my '09 has are not necessities, but they are present for a reason as they are expected at this level. I simply find it more worthwhile keeping my '09, as the MY2013 changes aren't sufficient enough to warrant the upgrade(nor affordable for me). In that case, I certainly haven't lost any plot. No clue why you think that.

Clearly no one cares about Keyless Go on such a vehicle, that is the point. This is very basic vehicle that doesn't need to trade on such silly features. Turning a key to open it IMO, goes with the whole throw-back charater of the vehicle, anyone who wouldn't purchase it because it doesn't have Keyless Go IMO is clueless and has indeed lost the entire plot of such a vehicle. The G really has no direct competition, everything else is either much cheaper (Wrangler, Defender) or much newer (Range Rover, which should have all the newest features). Who the hell cares about Keyless Go, look at the damn thing. Such a matterless thing on such a vehicle. The S-Class' segment requires such things, the G's (if there such a segment) does not. Of course putting Keyless Go on the G would require a re-engineering of various things, something Mercedes likely feels isn't warranted and it must not be anything customers are screaming for either otherwise they'd do it.


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I don't think KeylessGo would require anymore reengineering than what was required to put the new Command System into the G which was not cheap or easy and required a lot of reengineering.
 
The doors would have to be changed, as well as the whole interface. Sensors would have be tested and placed correctly, clearly its more than a slap on.

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I doubt it's that complicated Marcus. All you need is sensors in the doors (plus new door handles with the touch pads) and inside the vehicle, and voila, you've got KG. But I understand where the guy is coming from and couldn't agree more with him.

I also agree with those who think MB is milking the cow when it comes to minor things like KG and xenon headlamps.
 
Well then we just disagree. I think it's just silly to not buy a vehicle like this because it doesn't have something so trivial as Keyless go. Its a throwback vehicle, not a ML or GL. Thing is about rugged as they come and can go nearly anywhere, and keyless go is a deal breaker. Sigh.

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Interesting and a reasonable response. Is it not possible to retro fit something similar after the car has left the factory?
Glad we agree on it, but as for retrofitting? Probably not, as I have only heard of those cheap aftermarket products and wouldn't even think of adding such a non-OEM contraption to my own.

I don't think KeylessGo would require anymore reengineering than what was required to put the new Command System into the G which was not cheap or easy and required a lot of reengineering.
Exactly! The 2001 update was a major one and revised a great deal. As were the frequent external/internal updates in 1997 and each of the 2007-2010 model years. If they are making so many changes a year, why not add that in one of them? I guess Merc1's statement might be explain why after so many updates, that is left out.

I doubt it's that complicated Marcus. All you need is sensors in the doors (plus new door handles with the touch pads) and inside the vehicle, and voila, you've got KG. But I understand where the guy is coming from and couldn't agree more with him.

I also agree with those who think MB is milking the cow when it comes to minor things like KG and xenon headlamps.
Correct! It should be as simple as that with the many changes made over the years, so it's puzzling to me how they invented this in 1996-97 and haven't capitalized on offering it on all of their passenger vehicles.

Well then we just disagree. I think it's just silly to not buy a vehicle like this because it doesn't have something so trivial as Keyless go. Its a throwback vehicle, not a ML or GL. Thing is about rugged as they come and can go nearly anywhere, and keyless go is a deal breaker. Sigh.

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I'm not really saying it's a deal breaker, as I find the G63 AMG to be damn sexy. It's more over that it seems odd how the G has been updated nearly every year since 2006, yet MB refuses to add that feature. Maybe your statement does explain why they haven't so far, as other than that there are really no excuses as it shouldn't be difficult.
 
The G is about as niche a segment as you will find. I can't tell you how many women I've had wanting a G, and then they examine and drive and realize this is not the soccer mom vehicle. Keyless Go is probably not going to matter, but, if you've got 100k to spend on the most impractical over engineered SUV on the market, and you want Keyless, well, as a salesman, I'm not going to argue. Keyless should be standard through the MB line-up. MB is still charging and over-charging for "options" that should be standard. If there is an exception, the G would have to be it.
 
Don't got your point...does the G not have the remote central locking and unlocking system? it would suit me in G class perfect...just click on the button on the key and opened/closed ;)
 

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