M-B are saints with Options pricing compared to their rivals. BMW and especially Porsche are far more price gauging and hard on you to get the Options.
G-Class [Official] Mercedes-Benz G-Class Facelift (W463)
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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.
M-B are saints with Options pricing compared to their rivals. BMW and especially Porsche are far more price gauging and hard on you to get the Options.
Wolfgang
Kraftwagen König
^ Comes standard with ESP since about the 2001/2 model year.
Electronic Stability Program (ESP®)
This safety breakthrough first introduced by Mercedes-Benz continually monitors your driving inputs and the vehicle's motion to help keep it going in your intended direction, especially in corners and during evasive maneuvers. If it detects wheelspin, severe understeer (plowing), or oversteer (fishtailing), ESP can brake individual wheels and reduce engine power to help bring the vehicle under control. (Disclaimer)
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/model/class-G/model-G550
http://www.worldcarfans.com/1041130...000-fewer-serious-accidents-per-year-with-esp
Electronic Stability Program (ESP®)
This safety breakthrough first introduced by Mercedes-Benz continually monitors your driving inputs and the vehicle's motion to help keep it going in your intended direction, especially in corners and during evasive maneuvers. If it detects wheelspin, severe understeer (plowing), or oversteer (fishtailing), ESP can brake individual wheels and reduce engine power to help bring the vehicle under control. (Disclaimer)
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/model/class-G/model-G550
http://www.worldcarfans.com/1041130...000-fewer-serious-accidents-per-year-with-esp
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http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review...ive-review-2013-mercedes-g-class-g350-bluetec
The Mercedes G-class is a remarkably convincing mix of old and new technology, undermined by vague steering. Very pricey but well-engineered
What is it?
This is the latest, 2013-model, incarnation of the Mercedes G-Wagon, which is in its 33rd year of production as a passenger car. Now known as the G-Class, the vehicle was born out of a military vehicle project and its combat sister model is still in service across the globe.
The enduring popularity of the military version must be the reason that the G-Class - billed as being almost ‘totally handbuilt’ at the Graz plant in Austria - is still available in the showrooms. Only around 5500 road-going G-Classes were made last year, and just 100 were sold in the UK.
The car’s military roots also mean that even this blinged-up urban version is still a serious off-roader. The ladder-frame chassis is made from sheet steel that’s as thick as 4mm in places, it rolls on proper live axles, benefits from three electronic differential locks and has the requisite approach and departure angles. It also has a braked towing capability of a massive 3500kg.
All of the 2013 models might be very expensive indeed, kicking of with the G350’s £82,000 sticker price (indeed, the right-hook G63 is £123,000 and there’s a LHD V12 G65 AMG which is current retailing for £198,000) but the G-Class will undoubtedly cut it in both Morocco and Monaco.
What is it like?
For the 2013 model year, the G-Class has undergone another significant round of changes. Inside, the dashboard has been redesigned, the instrument cluster and centre console is new, Merc’s iDrive Command controller has been added and a console-mounted 7in tablet-style screen, which gives uncanny preview of Apple’s upcoming ‘Mini’ iPad.
Also new is the updated multi-functional steering wheel and the climate control fascia. The majority of the controls - including the electric window switches and column stalks - are familiar from existing Mercedes models.
Although dashboard is new - and covered in handsome, heavily grained leather - it retains the grab handle on the passenger side and the styling has not strayed too far from the original.
The most obvious exterior changes are the modern, folding, mirrors and LED daytime running lights. Modern essentials such as frontal airbags and window bags, ESP and anti-whiplash seat headrests are also standard. The seats are covered in ruggedly thick leather.
The rest of the car is impressively old-school. The exterior panels seems to have been stamped from super-thick steel and the body has wide shut lines that let the hinges poke through. The doors use old-fashioned latches that grab the doors with a deeply impressive ‘click’.
You have to climb up into the driver’s seat (it is worse in the rear because the back seats are placed even higher off the ground) and the closeness of the windscreen and the vertical attitude of the A-pillars is surprise at first. But the electric seat and electric wheel adjuster will move far enough apart for the moderately tall to get comfortable. Headroom is vast.
The V6 turbodiesel motor is a tight fit under the bonnet (one of the ECUs actually sits higher than the wing top) but the engine noise is impressively distant and more of a metallic thrum than death-rattle. The centre-console aluminium new shift lever - controlling the 7-speed autobox - is very neat and nicely made and it takes just a wrist flick to push it into ‘drive’.
The G350 is a surprisingly swift machine. The modern drivetrain gives the car a surprisingly modern flavour. Despite the bluff shape and weight, this car has got an impressive turn of speed. Stuck behind a container lorry on a B-road, the G350 made very easy work of a rapid overtaking manoeuvre.
It also rides surprisingly well, though the ultra-tall, fat tyres must help on the broken road surfaces, and the body control is also really remarkable good.
The big ‘but’ is the ancient recirculating ball steering set-up. It is not very easy to keep the G350 running in a straight line, and there’s also the suspicion that the big tyres also tend to follow camber changes. On the A3 in Surrey, the car needed constant steering correction a problem made worse by the fact that the steering needs bigger inputs than is normal, so it’s harder to be precise when trying to place the nose.
However, there’s something about the charm and authenticity of the G-Class which is surprisingly compelling. The visibility out of the car is extraordinary, the super-high driving position surprisingly relaxing, the car’s performance gratifying brisk and the chassis remarkably competent on-road for a hard-core off-roader. Only the vague steering and inability to run in straight line on some roads spoils what would otherwise be a remarkable modern driving experience.
Should I buy one?
Mostly hand-built it may be, but the G-Class is very pricy. Even this entry-level model is £10k more expensive than the new Range Rover, which is a far slicker product.
But there’s something about this fantastic mix of the best of old-school and cutting-edge Mercedes engineering that turns cold hard reason on its head.
The G350 will never make sense on paper, but I would bet that if affluent SUV buyers had a proper test drive in this car, Mercedes UK would sell significantly more than 100 per year.
Mercedes G-Class G350 BlueTEC
Price £82,945; 0-62mph 9.1sec; Top speed 109mph; Economy 25.2mpg; CO2 295g/km; Kerb weight 2570kg; Engine V6, turbo diesel, 2987cc; Power 208bhp at 3400rpm; Torque 398lb ft at 1600-2400rpm; Gearbox 7-spd auto
The Mercedes G-class is a remarkably convincing mix of old and new technology, undermined by vague steering. Very pricey but well-engineered
What is it?
This is the latest, 2013-model, incarnation of the Mercedes G-Wagon, which is in its 33rd year of production as a passenger car. Now known as the G-Class, the vehicle was born out of a military vehicle project and its combat sister model is still in service across the globe.
The enduring popularity of the military version must be the reason that the G-Class - billed as being almost ‘totally handbuilt’ at the Graz plant in Austria - is still available in the showrooms. Only around 5500 road-going G-Classes were made last year, and just 100 were sold in the UK.
The car’s military roots also mean that even this blinged-up urban version is still a serious off-roader. The ladder-frame chassis is made from sheet steel that’s as thick as 4mm in places, it rolls on proper live axles, benefits from three electronic differential locks and has the requisite approach and departure angles. It also has a braked towing capability of a massive 3500kg.
All of the 2013 models might be very expensive indeed, kicking of with the G350’s £82,000 sticker price (indeed, the right-hook G63 is £123,000 and there’s a LHD V12 G65 AMG which is current retailing for £198,000) but the G-Class will undoubtedly cut it in both Morocco and Monaco.
What is it like?
For the 2013 model year, the G-Class has undergone another significant round of changes. Inside, the dashboard has been redesigned, the instrument cluster and centre console is new, Merc’s iDrive Command controller has been added and a console-mounted 7in tablet-style screen, which gives uncanny preview of Apple’s upcoming ‘Mini’ iPad.
Also new is the updated multi-functional steering wheel and the climate control fascia. The majority of the controls - including the electric window switches and column stalks - are familiar from existing Mercedes models.
Although dashboard is new - and covered in handsome, heavily grained leather - it retains the grab handle on the passenger side and the styling has not strayed too far from the original.
The most obvious exterior changes are the modern, folding, mirrors and LED daytime running lights. Modern essentials such as frontal airbags and window bags, ESP and anti-whiplash seat headrests are also standard. The seats are covered in ruggedly thick leather.
The rest of the car is impressively old-school. The exterior panels seems to have been stamped from super-thick steel and the body has wide shut lines that let the hinges poke through. The doors use old-fashioned latches that grab the doors with a deeply impressive ‘click’.
You have to climb up into the driver’s seat (it is worse in the rear because the back seats are placed even higher off the ground) and the closeness of the windscreen and the vertical attitude of the A-pillars is surprise at first. But the electric seat and electric wheel adjuster will move far enough apart for the moderately tall to get comfortable. Headroom is vast.
The V6 turbodiesel motor is a tight fit under the bonnet (one of the ECUs actually sits higher than the wing top) but the engine noise is impressively distant and more of a metallic thrum than death-rattle. The centre-console aluminium new shift lever - controlling the 7-speed autobox - is very neat and nicely made and it takes just a wrist flick to push it into ‘drive’.
The G350 is a surprisingly swift machine. The modern drivetrain gives the car a surprisingly modern flavour. Despite the bluff shape and weight, this car has got an impressive turn of speed. Stuck behind a container lorry on a B-road, the G350 made very easy work of a rapid overtaking manoeuvre.
It also rides surprisingly well, though the ultra-tall, fat tyres must help on the broken road surfaces, and the body control is also really remarkable good.
The big ‘but’ is the ancient recirculating ball steering set-up. It is not very easy to keep the G350 running in a straight line, and there’s also the suspicion that the big tyres also tend to follow camber changes. On the A3 in Surrey, the car needed constant steering correction a problem made worse by the fact that the steering needs bigger inputs than is normal, so it’s harder to be precise when trying to place the nose.
However, there’s something about the charm and authenticity of the G-Class which is surprisingly compelling. The visibility out of the car is extraordinary, the super-high driving position surprisingly relaxing, the car’s performance gratifying brisk and the chassis remarkably competent on-road for a hard-core off-roader. Only the vague steering and inability to run in straight line on some roads spoils what would otherwise be a remarkable modern driving experience.
Should I buy one?
Mostly hand-built it may be, but the G-Class is very pricy. Even this entry-level model is £10k more expensive than the new Range Rover, which is a far slicker product.
But there’s something about this fantastic mix of the best of old-school and cutting-edge Mercedes engineering that turns cold hard reason on its head.
The G350 will never make sense on paper, but I would bet that if affluent SUV buyers had a proper test drive in this car, Mercedes UK would sell significantly more than 100 per year.
Mercedes G-Class G350 BlueTEC
Price £82,945; 0-62mph 9.1sec; Top speed 109mph; Economy 25.2mpg; CO2 295g/km; Kerb weight 2570kg; Engine V6, turbo diesel, 2987cc; Power 208bhp at 3400rpm; Torque 398lb ft at 1600-2400rpm; Gearbox 7-spd auto
Rainer271
Kraftwagen König
Mercedes-Benz G-Class: Details of the 2016 Transformation
No matter what a man does, the middle-age crisis can’t be avoided. Nonetheless, we could all learn a thing or two about this from the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. The Gelandewagen, which turned 35 this year, is determined to remain young and will go through a major transformation process in 2016.
It was 1979 when Mercedes-Benz and Steyr-Daimler-Puch became partners in arms, launching the military-destined G unit. Over the years, Mercedes-Benz may have changed powertrains and added amenities, but the hard points of the vehicle are still in place.
This is about to change, with the latest report indicating this coming from Car Magazine. Mercedes invested one billion Euro in the E-Class facelift, making this the most expensive revamp in the world, so the carmaker is no stranger to such deep personal training for its cars.
To keep its mental halt, the G-Class will preserve its body-on-frame construction, but the current steel chassis will be replaced by an aluminum structure. The greatest change will come in terms of width, where the Gelandewagen is set to gain about 100 mm (inches). Fret not G-Class fans, the muscular sides of the car are here to stay.
The aluminum diet will see the Gelandewagen lose about lbs (375 kg), but the impressive figure will also arrive thanks to a host of other mechanical changes. For instance, the recirculating ball steering, which sacrifices all in the name of rugged terrain durability, will make room for an electric power steering, a feature that will be required by active safety systems.
The comfort and handling drawbacks of the live front axle will bring its demise, with the revised G-Class switching to independent suspension. While this means the front diff will be “lockable” via the brakes, the center and rear diffs will still offer a proper lock function,
The roof will also be lowered a little bit, with the changes set to dramatically boost the handling of the car and therefore allow it to cope with the ever-increasing safety regulations. As strange as it may sound, we’ll be able to put the G-Class in the same sentence with stuff such as LED headlights and active shutter grilles.
In the engine compartment, the changes will be smaller, but still important. We could expect the G65 AMG V12 behemoth to dissapear. This was more about vanity than actual assets when compared to the G 63 AMGV8 monster anyway, so we won’t be all that sorry if it gets the axe.
The latter will remain in place, allowing the driver to control 571 hp and 590 lb-ft (800 Nm) of torque. It will be being joined by a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 delivering 462 hp and 442 lb-ft (600 Nm) of torque, as well as by a 3.0-liter straight six producing 367 hp and 354 lb-ft (480 Nm) of torque. As for the diesel side of the sales battle, this will be covered by a 3.0-liter L6 with 313 hp and 354 lb-ft.
The cabin of the Gelandewagen will see a major revamp, since all the Germans have done so far was to keep adding to the original teamplate. Yes, be prepared, the infotainment screen in your Gelandewagen will rival TVs from a few years behind.
Should you happen to still long for the G-Class you used to know, you mustn’t despair. All you have to do is enroll, as the military-destined 461 series will skip most of the changes of the civilian-dedicated 463 model.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/m...details-of-the-2016-transformation-85597.html
No matter what a man does, the middle-age crisis can’t be avoided. Nonetheless, we could all learn a thing or two about this from the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. The Gelandewagen, which turned 35 this year, is determined to remain young and will go through a major transformation process in 2016.
It was 1979 when Mercedes-Benz and Steyr-Daimler-Puch became partners in arms, launching the military-destined G unit. Over the years, Mercedes-Benz may have changed powertrains and added amenities, but the hard points of the vehicle are still in place.
This is about to change, with the latest report indicating this coming from Car Magazine. Mercedes invested one billion Euro in the E-Class facelift, making this the most expensive revamp in the world, so the carmaker is no stranger to such deep personal training for its cars.
To keep its mental halt, the G-Class will preserve its body-on-frame construction, but the current steel chassis will be replaced by an aluminum structure. The greatest change will come in terms of width, where the Gelandewagen is set to gain about 100 mm (inches). Fret not G-Class fans, the muscular sides of the car are here to stay.
The aluminum diet will see the Gelandewagen lose about lbs (375 kg), but the impressive figure will also arrive thanks to a host of other mechanical changes. For instance, the recirculating ball steering, which sacrifices all in the name of rugged terrain durability, will make room for an electric power steering, a feature that will be required by active safety systems.
The comfort and handling drawbacks of the live front axle will bring its demise, with the revised G-Class switching to independent suspension. While this means the front diff will be “lockable” via the brakes, the center and rear diffs will still offer a proper lock function,
The roof will also be lowered a little bit, with the changes set to dramatically boost the handling of the car and therefore allow it to cope with the ever-increasing safety regulations. As strange as it may sound, we’ll be able to put the G-Class in the same sentence with stuff such as LED headlights and active shutter grilles.
In the engine compartment, the changes will be smaller, but still important. We could expect the G65 AMG V12 behemoth to dissapear. This was more about vanity than actual assets when compared to the G 63 AMGV8 monster anyway, so we won’t be all that sorry if it gets the axe.
The latter will remain in place, allowing the driver to control 571 hp and 590 lb-ft (800 Nm) of torque. It will be being joined by a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 delivering 462 hp and 442 lb-ft (600 Nm) of torque, as well as by a 3.0-liter straight six producing 367 hp and 354 lb-ft (480 Nm) of torque. As for the diesel side of the sales battle, this will be covered by a 3.0-liter L6 with 313 hp and 354 lb-ft.
The cabin of the Gelandewagen will see a major revamp, since all the Germans have done so far was to keep adding to the original teamplate. Yes, be prepared, the infotainment screen in your Gelandewagen will rival TVs from a few years behind.
Should you happen to still long for the G-Class you used to know, you mustn’t despair. All you have to do is enroll, as the military-destined 461 series will skip most of the changes of the civilian-dedicated 463 model.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/m...details-of-the-2016-transformation-85597.html
ThroughandThrough
Kraftkurve King
I don't like the G-wagon getting wider at the waistline. 
Rainer271
Kraftwagen König
Mercedes-Benz G-Class 35 Edition introduced
Mercedes-Benz G-Class 35 Edition
Available as G350 BlueTEC and G500
Mercedes-Benz has revealed the G-Class 35 Edition.
The 35 Edition comes just in time for the 35th anniversary of the model. The G-Class was first launched in 1979 and is believed to be sold until 2027 with a facelift coming in 2016.
In short, the special model is equipped with a black leather interior with Nappa seats and AMG Performance steering wheel. The exterior has been upgraded with the Chrome and Sport packages, while the standard wheels have been replaced with a set of 18-inch alloy wheels. The 35 Edition will be available in three different colors – black, white and gray metallic colors.
The upgraded G-Class will be offered until May 2015 in two different variants - the G350 BlueTEC and the G500. Prices in Germany start at 101,031 EUR (130,000 USD) and at 112,812 EUR (145,000 USD) respectively.
Source: Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz G-Class 35 Edition
Available as G350 BlueTEC and G500
Mercedes-Benz has revealed the G-Class 35 Edition.
The 35 Edition comes just in time for the 35th anniversary of the model. The G-Class was first launched in 1979 and is believed to be sold until 2027 with a facelift coming in 2016.
In short, the special model is equipped with a black leather interior with Nappa seats and AMG Performance steering wheel. The exterior has been upgraded with the Chrome and Sport packages, while the standard wheels have been replaced with a set of 18-inch alloy wheels. The 35 Edition will be available in three different colors – black, white and gray metallic colors.
The upgraded G-Class will be offered until May 2015 in two different variants - the G350 BlueTEC and the G500. Prices in Germany start at 101,031 EUR (130,000 USD) and at 112,812 EUR (145,000 USD) respectively.
Source: Mercedes-Benz
hannaz
Aerodynamic Artisan
It seems the same variant is co-staring with 6x6 in upcoming Jurassic Part 4 movie. Some pics from various social medias.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/baptistecoudert/sets/72157644221181248/detail/?page=2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/baptistecoudert/sets/72157644221181248/detail/?page=2
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