X-Class [Official] Mercedes-Benz X-Class

[bialkov]

Mercedes-Benz X-Class joins the intervention squad in Formula 1.
The company’s first pick-up truck will keeep the Safety Car and the Medical Car company on the racing tracks.

The Mercedes-Benz X-Class is now part of the team of intervention during the F1 races. The deployment elite also includes the most powerful Safety Car ever, as the Mercedes-AMG GT R with a 585 horsepower 4.0-liter V8 engine. Making its debut in March 2018 with the Australian Grand Prix, the top-of-the-line model manufactured in Affalterbach sets the pace in crisis situations. The man behind the wheel is – as every season for the past 18 years – German pro driver Bernd Mayländer, who only missed a Grand Prix.
With a top speed of 318 km/h and 3.6 seconds for the sprint from zero to 100 km/h, the AMG GT R is there to keep races in safe conditions whenever deployed.

Speaking of safety, the Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Estate is the official Medical Car of the Season, in the hands of racing driver Alan van der Merwe. A 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine with an output of 510 horsepower, the AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT 9G transmission, the dynamic engine mounts and the electronically controlled limited-slip rear differential are on the same high level as the street-going version. The Estate will now get the aid of the Mercedes-Benz X-Class pick-up truck for missions where the 490-liter luggage compartment does not seem to be enough.
The X-Class comes in its most potent variant, powered by a 3.0-liter V6 engine, developing 258 horsepower and 550 horsepower of torque.
mercedes blog

 

[bialkov]

Mercedes X-Class 6X6 From Carlex Will Be A Gnarly, Off-Road Rig

Details about it are scant at the moment, but Carlex's six-wheeled X-Class looks like a beast.
Carlex Design is very familiar with tuning the Mercedes-Benz X-Class by creating luxurious and rugged versions of the German brand's new pickup. The firm's next project is far more audacious, though, because the team is creating a custom, six-wheeled truck with an extended bed and brawny, flared fenders. It calls the machine the X-Class Exy 6x6 Concept.

This is more than just an X-Class with an extra pair of wheels, although that would be plenty cool enough. Carlex fits a revised front fascia with huge intakes in the corners and a winch in the center. The revised hood gains a scoop, and there are fender flares with exposed rivets that look straight off a 1980s punk's jacket. An LED light bar adorns the roof. Side steps make getting into the raised pickup a little easier, too.
The biggest changes are at the rear, though. Carlex makes room for an extra axle and mounts the truck on knobby, off-road tires. Huge fenders cover the wheels. A massive X adorns the tailgate, and there's a new bumper with the exhaust outlets integrated into them.

Unfortunately, Carlex Design isn't providing many details about this machine beyond promising that it's now under construction. The hood scoop indicates the possibility of extra power being available. Currently, the X-Class' top engine is a turbodiesel 3.0-liter V6 with 258 horsepower (190 kilowatts) and 406 pound-feet (550 Newton-meters) of torque that runs through a seven-speed automatic.

Making the X-Class into a proper 6x6 will be quite a bit of work for Carlex. It'll require another differential and driveshaft to power the wheels. A new transfer case will possibly be necessary, too, to let drivers select where to send the torque. We can't wait to see how Carlex works it out.

 

[Human]

Toyota Land Cruiser 79 series successfully sold as a 6x6
Done as a aftermarket build.

Australia

 

[DjordjeC63]

Looks like 6x6 pickups have its place on market..

 

[Grosser]

Little bit off topic: I don't know if G 6x6 was Mercs first 6 wheel car, but I know they had it back in 1934 with W31

 

[hannaz]

I don’t know why this guys do drag for all sought of vehicles

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[Wolfgang]

MBUSA dealers may still be interested in a low volume X-Class?

Mercedes dealers wonder: What about that pickup?
Retailers eye the not-for-U.S. X class

URVAKSH KARKARIA -- Autonews

With low gasoline prices and the surging popularity of pickups, is Mercedes-Benz missing an opportunity by not bringing its X-class midsize pickup stateside?

Dealers are getting questions from customers about whether the X class is coming to the U.S., reports Mercedes-Benz Dealer Board Chairman Greg Barnes.

"It wouldn't surprise me if there are some discussions in the coming year or two about this," said Barnes, president of Bill Ussery Motors Group in Coral Gables, Fla., which operates two South Florida Mercedes stores. "I've heard a lot more on this subject over the last year."

Barnes: A more luxurious X class

Even so, no decisions have been made concerning the X class for the U.S., Barnes said, noting conversations with Mercedes-Benz USA executives. In 2017, Mercedes-Benz Vans boss Volker Mornhinweg said the automaker was considering it.

"In the past year, the midsized truck market has come back a bit," Mornhinweg said at the time. "We are watching developments very closely, and we will take a decision at the appropriate time."

Mercedes-Benz USA boss Dietmar Exler has said that when the pickup undergoes a midcycle freshening in a few years, the company could re-evaluate its U.S. prospects.

The X class was launched in 2017 as a result of Daimler's cooperation with Renault-Nissan. The vehicle uses the same global platform as the Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan.

Current low gas prices also set the stage for Mercedes to wade into America's crowded pickup market.

"Even in the luxury world, when we see gas prices go up, there are always more questions about fuel economy," Barnes said. "There are not really many people asking about fuel economy today."

While full-size trucks dominate the U.S. pickup market, the midsize sector is gaining momentum. Midsize pickup sales finished 2018 at 524,231 vehicles, a 16 percent year-over-year gain, according to the Automotive News Data Center.

FCA US and Ford Motor Co. are rolling out midsize pickups this year. Ram will jump back into the segment it abandoned in 2011 with a return of the Dakota in 2020.

For the X class to lure America's picky premium truck buyers, it will have to get more luxe.

"It needs to become a lot more luxurious in the U.S. market, and it would have to be a low-volume product," Barnes said.

"You've got to have the right pickup, at the right price. What is the competition, and how would we fit in there?"

 

[Yaz]

Nope, please don't.

 

[Merc1]

When you redesign it as a true Mercedes-Benz with no Nissan DNA, sure. Until then no, don't embarrass yourself MBUSA.

M

 

[KiwiRob]

When you redesign it as a true Mercedes-Benz with no Nissan DNA, sure. Until then no, don't embarrass yourself MBUSA.

M

Plenty of people in my corner or Norway are buying them, I'd say they would be the second most common ute after the Amorak. It's pretty good looking, very much a Mercedes in the flesh.

 

[Merc1]

Plenty of people in my corner or Norway are buying them, I'd say they would be the second most common ute after the Amorak. It's pretty good looking, very much a Mercedes in the flesh.

You would say that, knowing full well it's a rebadged Nissan.

M

 

[Mr. Mercedes]

You would say that, knowing full well it's a rebadged Nissan.

M

Mercedes did the absolute bare minimum they needed to do to slap on the MB badge. Sad.

 

[DjordjeC63]

At leastlsomething is done. Remember Citan?

Suspension is modified, so it drives better than Navara. 350d is Merc engine. Maybe noise isolation too?

 

[Merc1]

If it is success, they'll either go it on their own next time or they'll joint develop the next one with Nissan, not just a simple rebadge. That is my hope anyways. A luxury Mercedes pickup would sell in the U.S. where hillbillies already pay 40-90K for high end domestic trucks now.

M

 

[Serpens]

If it is success, they'll either go it on their own next time or they'll joint develop the next one with Nissan, not just a simple rebadge. That is my hope anyways. A luxury Mercedes pickup would sell in the U.S. where hillbillies already pay 40-90K for high end domestic trucks now.

M

If I were CEO of Mercedes and was allowed to waste insane amounts of money, I'd create a G-wagen pickup. That's the only way I'd accept one here in the U.S.

 

[Merc1]

If I were CEO of Mercedes and was allowed to waste insane amounts of money, I'd create a G-wagen pickup. That's the only way I'd accept one here in the U.S.

That would definitely sell. I wish they'd bring back the 2-door cabrio version.

M

 

[DjordjeC63]

Im not familiar If americans buy these "small" pickups, but I think that for US market they need big bigine (5-6 liters) with lot of torque. So they have to rebadge Nissan Titan

 

[chonkoa]

Im not familiar If americans buy these "small" pickups, but I think that for US market they need big bigine (5-6 liters) with lot of torque. So they have to rebadge Nissan Titan

Very little space for small trucks for sure. Trucks and Torque go together here.

 

[KiwiRob]

If it is success, they'll either go it on their own next time or they'll joint develop the next one with Nissan, not just a simple rebadge. That is my hope anyways. A luxury Mercedes pickup would sell in the U.S. where hillbillies already pay 40-90K for high end domestic trucks now.

M

Its more than a simple rebadge, the problem is you've never seen one, only photos. There's not a single shared panel on the vehicles. They have completely different interiors, the only let down is the X Class has the kick up on the back door, same as the Nissan and Renault versions.

 

[Merc1]

Its more than a simple rebadge, the problem is you've never seen one, only photos. There's not a single shared panel on the vehicles. They have completely different interiors, the only let down is the X Class has the kick up on the back door, same as the Nissan and Renault versions.

OMG man please, it's a Nissan, changing a body panel doesn't change what the vehicle is underneath. It amazes me that you, normally an anything Mercedes hater, would argue in favor or a rebadged Nissan as legit Mercedes. Utterly ridiculous.

M