Mercedes-Benz G-Class gets the luxe, high-tech treatment

Mercedes-Benz G-Class.Question: What are hard on the outside and soft on the inside?Remember how the 39-year-old G-Wagen began its life as a rough-and-tumble off-roader for the German military and utility companies before finding an improbably second, really profitable life as a luxury machine? Remember how they stuck V8s and V12s inside it, made it somehow mostly stick to the road in a way Land Rover insisted just wasn’t possible with the similarly elderly, boxy Defender?Well, none of that is happening this time around. Instead, they’re just going full luxury from the get-go, because that’s how just about every Geländewagen (its German name) ends up being sold, anyway. The interior will have plenty of signature pieces, but it will be more closely aligned with the S-Class limousine than with something geared to be hosed out on Sunday afternoon.Benz has a twin-pronged attack at the top end of the SUV tree, with the G-Wagen and the monocoque GL approaching a similar price point from very different directions. There’s also talk of a long-wheelbase Maybach version of the new G-Class, and both V8 G63 and V12 G65 versions are inevitable from AMG.It will need every big SUV it can lay its hands on,… Read full this story

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