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^ Here's a google translation. Also mentioned in the vid, looks like 20" wheels may be standard on the GLE Coupe. 
So drives the X6 rival
Mercedes follows with the new GLE Coupé successful paths of the BMW X6. From mid-2015, the crossover SUV should raise the coupe experience to a new level of driving dynamics. auto motor und sport exclusively participated in test drives in the US.
The ditch would be a logical option, when purely moving physically. About two tons of car based on the platform of the more under-steering comfortable ML-Class, and a head of development, the steers as Rosberg in line of battle in front of Hamilton. Since the passenger may start a predictive failure analysis and imagine in the mind's eye the red rocks piercing the front of the coupe, on Mercedes selected for the last tuning drives daggers at the Valley of Fire in Las Vegas.
This means, however, to make the statement without considering the capabilities of the new Mercedes GLE coupe. The car, Mercedes places from 2015 as BMW X6 competitor - and based on the ML, Pardon, future GLE.
Mercedes GLE surprisingly agile
We save us at this point a discussion about extravagant sense or nonsense of such crossover models. It makes sense for an automaker, a car that finds its market, and the X6 has attracted as a mezzanine floor Coupe 260,000 buyers. Of Mercedes will now abhaben also what his own interpretation. Just as the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer wants to share the other way from the B-class success.
So development manager Andreas Zygan demanded of his team for the new Mercedes SUV-coupe excellent longitudinal and transverse dynamics skills and precision and comfort, of course - it's still a Mercedes. The rock crawling abilites stand in the background. Nevertheless, it takes a while until the passenger gets together the learned expectations of such a powerful vehicle and its highly directional stability-neutral steering into "Popometer" and brain. The agility of the Mercedes GLE remains surprising, even if you have just been still amazed at the handling of the X6.
Mercedes GLE varies dynamics at your fingertips
"We take this car up to 22-inch wheels of 325er-dimension and the largest tires available as standard for a Mercedes. We have a completely new steering installed", Zygan provides the first technical teaser for the driving dynamics. "Regardless of our usual cost-saving steering kit we wanted a more direct steering. The GLE coupe should feel really athletic and independent."
That does it, and the pretty little steering movements Zygans illustrate the jagged steering ratio of 17.5:1 compared to 19:1 in the ML. At the same time, the engineers lowered the center of gravity by one to two centimeters and integrated "dynamics 2.0 by Dynamic Select" as it is called by Zygan. Again, Mercedes follows the paths BMWs and provides the Swabian variant of a driving experience switch, comprising the steps smoothness, comfort, sport and Sport plus at. "In contrast to other approaches, the driver driving the various programs experienced very clear differences here," says Zygan. The control systems thereby adjust the characteristics of the suspension, steering and drive train to the various modes. A little show is now inevitable, so here even change the instrument lights and the dynamic driving lights.
In Comfort mode, the Mercedes Coupé GLE is a very relaxed and quiet cruiser that feels very comfortable on the broad highways of America. Despite sporting tires it also takes hard transverse bumps very calm and cuddly and changes gears smoothly and quickly. The 9G-Tronic or - called how the developers prefer - NAG3 (new automatic third generation) with somewhat greater ratio spread allows efficient driving style, and makes otherwise the best thing that an automatic transmission can do: not to stand out.
Configures the pilot in the Sport mode, get a little jolt in the running river, which serve to illustrate the dynamics. For this purpose, the continuously variable damper of the ADS-Plus system to be tighter, and the six-cylinder biturbo bites biting and with kernigem tone. Again and again, a pinch of spice engine while downshifting the throaty, sporty sound.
Successfully expelled roll
In particular, the active roll stabilization alleviates the otherwise effervescent high seas of such a car run portion in an almost sensational manner. With straight ahead riding it decouples the stabilizers for the highest possible comfort. One can approach this car certainly critical of, but what the Mercedes engineers have brought out driving dynamics and how the GLE braces against understeer, is very impressive. If Zygan darts through the desert in Las Vegas, it feels as if the load of half a ton of weight is lost.
The engineers did not avail themselves to the lateral dynamic miracle weapon of torque vectoring, for the active force distribution on the axis, unlike BMW. For the model based on the previous ML it is simply not suitable. The Mercedes all-wheel drive distributes the power between the axles and can simulate with an adaptive brake at least some torque vectoring. Much effort to change a mountain bike to a road bike, but one that is worth it, because the coupe drives completely different than the standard SUV. Zygan grins: "By pressing a button the new one pumps adrenaline" - into a well-known interior, one might add. Because besides some sport cosmetics, a stylized checkered flag in the instruments and a new digital display, not so much was changed..
Zygan would not reveal what exactly changes with the engines. From the effortlessly beefy acceleration in the Valley of Fire one can conclude that the well-known six-cylinder turbos have gotten a little more fire. It will properly burn, should the new AMG engine with four-liter V8 eventually leave the halls.
Author: Alexander Bloch -- Auto Motor und Sport
So drives the X6 rival
Mercedes follows with the new GLE Coupé successful paths of the BMW X6. From mid-2015, the crossover SUV should raise the coupe experience to a new level of driving dynamics. auto motor und sport exclusively participated in test drives in the US.
The ditch would be a logical option, when purely moving physically. About two tons of car based on the platform of the more under-steering comfortable ML-Class, and a head of development, the steers as Rosberg in line of battle in front of Hamilton. Since the passenger may start a predictive failure analysis and imagine in the mind's eye the red rocks piercing the front of the coupe, on Mercedes selected for the last tuning drives daggers at the Valley of Fire in Las Vegas.
This means, however, to make the statement without considering the capabilities of the new Mercedes GLE coupe. The car, Mercedes places from 2015 as BMW X6 competitor - and based on the ML, Pardon, future GLE.
Mercedes GLE surprisingly agile
We save us at this point a discussion about extravagant sense or nonsense of such crossover models. It makes sense for an automaker, a car that finds its market, and the X6 has attracted as a mezzanine floor Coupe 260,000 buyers. Of Mercedes will now abhaben also what his own interpretation. Just as the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer wants to share the other way from the B-class success.
So development manager Andreas Zygan demanded of his team for the new Mercedes SUV-coupe excellent longitudinal and transverse dynamics skills and precision and comfort, of course - it's still a Mercedes. The rock crawling abilites stand in the background. Nevertheless, it takes a while until the passenger gets together the learned expectations of such a powerful vehicle and its highly directional stability-neutral steering into "Popometer" and brain. The agility of the Mercedes GLE remains surprising, even if you have just been still amazed at the handling of the X6.
Mercedes GLE varies dynamics at your fingertips
"We take this car up to 22-inch wheels of 325er-dimension and the largest tires available as standard for a Mercedes. We have a completely new steering installed", Zygan provides the first technical teaser for the driving dynamics. "Regardless of our usual cost-saving steering kit we wanted a more direct steering. The GLE coupe should feel really athletic and independent."
That does it, and the pretty little steering movements Zygans illustrate the jagged steering ratio of 17.5:1 compared to 19:1 in the ML. At the same time, the engineers lowered the center of gravity by one to two centimeters and integrated "dynamics 2.0 by Dynamic Select" as it is called by Zygan. Again, Mercedes follows the paths BMWs and provides the Swabian variant of a driving experience switch, comprising the steps smoothness, comfort, sport and Sport plus at. "In contrast to other approaches, the driver driving the various programs experienced very clear differences here," says Zygan. The control systems thereby adjust the characteristics of the suspension, steering and drive train to the various modes. A little show is now inevitable, so here even change the instrument lights and the dynamic driving lights.
In Comfort mode, the Mercedes Coupé GLE is a very relaxed and quiet cruiser that feels very comfortable on the broad highways of America. Despite sporting tires it also takes hard transverse bumps very calm and cuddly and changes gears smoothly and quickly. The 9G-Tronic or - called how the developers prefer - NAG3 (new automatic third generation) with somewhat greater ratio spread allows efficient driving style, and makes otherwise the best thing that an automatic transmission can do: not to stand out.
Configures the pilot in the Sport mode, get a little jolt in the running river, which serve to illustrate the dynamics. For this purpose, the continuously variable damper of the ADS-Plus system to be tighter, and the six-cylinder biturbo bites biting and with kernigem tone. Again and again, a pinch of spice engine while downshifting the throaty, sporty sound.
Successfully expelled roll
In particular, the active roll stabilization alleviates the otherwise effervescent high seas of such a car run portion in an almost sensational manner. With straight ahead riding it decouples the stabilizers for the highest possible comfort. One can approach this car certainly critical of, but what the Mercedes engineers have brought out driving dynamics and how the GLE braces against understeer, is very impressive. If Zygan darts through the desert in Las Vegas, it feels as if the load of half a ton of weight is lost.
The engineers did not avail themselves to the lateral dynamic miracle weapon of torque vectoring, for the active force distribution on the axis, unlike BMW. For the model based on the previous ML it is simply not suitable. The Mercedes all-wheel drive distributes the power between the axles and can simulate with an adaptive brake at least some torque vectoring. Much effort to change a mountain bike to a road bike, but one that is worth it, because the coupe drives completely different than the standard SUV. Zygan grins: "By pressing a button the new one pumps adrenaline" - into a well-known interior, one might add. Because besides some sport cosmetics, a stylized checkered flag in the instruments and a new digital display, not so much was changed..
Zygan would not reveal what exactly changes with the engines. From the effortlessly beefy acceleration in the Valley of Fire one can conclude that the well-known six-cylinder turbos have gotten a little more fire. It will properly burn, should the new AMG engine with four-liter V8 eventually leave the halls.
Author: Alexander Bloch -- Auto Motor und Sport
