Photo: MB USA
The Gelandewagen from Mercedes-Benz is one of the last automotive dinosaurs that can still be bought from a car manufacturer's showroom. Which is a bit strange, since it also runs on decomposed dinosaur remains aka dinosaur juice.
The G also holds the record of the Mercedes-Benz that has the longest production span in history, continuously manufactured (by hand) in its current at an Austrian plant situated in Graz since 1979.
Autoweek recently had a chance to test the G-Class in its V8-guise, also known the 550 model in the US and 500 in pretty much all the rest of the world.
The front and rear rigid suspension and the three locking differentials that can be used via buttons on the center console are just two of the antithetic features which were, of course, viewed as brilliant by the Autoweek testers, along with a comfort level that they say is the same or even higher than a “normal” SUV with a unibody.
Other perks of the G 550 are naturally the effortless power of the normally aspirated 382 American hp V8 it had under than flat(ish) hood, along with the nice soundtrack it provides. You can read the entire test drive notes here and take a look at an official gallery of the 2013 G550 below..
Autoweek recently had a chance to test the G-Class in its V8-guise, also known the 550 model in the US and 500 in pretty much all the rest of the world.
The front and rear rigid suspension and the three locking differentials that can be used via buttons on the center console are just two of the antithetic features which were, of course, viewed as brilliant by the Autoweek testers, along with a comfort level that they say is the same or even higher than a “normal” SUV with a unibody.
Other perks of the G 550 are naturally the effortless power of the normally aspirated 382 American hp V8 it had under than flat(ish) hood, along with the nice soundtrack it provides. You can read the entire test drive notes here and take a look at an official gallery of the 2013 G550 below..
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