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In the last three months or so we've caught disguised pre-production prototypes of the second generation of the Mercedes-Benz GLK on numerous occasions.
Almost each time it was a different prototype, one even depicting a right-hand drive version and another showing us its center console, which will be largely identical to the one form the recently-unveiled C-Class W205.
Since the GLK X205 and the C-Class W205 will share the Mercedes-Benz MRA (Modular Rear Architecture) platform, their center consoles aren't the only common details between the two, with engines and transmissions to be shared as well.
This means that the hyper-efficient 9-speed automatic transmission will find its way on larger-engined GLK versions as well probably right from the beginning of production, which should happen sometime in the second part of 2014.
The new MRA platform was designed from the beginning with right-hand drive markets in mind as well, so we should finally see the GLK in places like Great Britain or Australia (the current generation is oddly sold in Japan in a left-hand drive configuration, ed).
What we don't get is why isn't any of the pre-production prototypes spied so far shedding any of their camouflage.
Since the GLK X205 and the C-Class W205 will share the Mercedes-Benz MRA (Modular Rear Architecture) platform, their center consoles aren't the only common details between the two, with engines and transmissions to be shared as well.
This means that the hyper-efficient 9-speed automatic transmission will find its way on larger-engined GLK versions as well probably right from the beginning of production, which should happen sometime in the second part of 2014.
The new MRA platform was designed from the beginning with right-hand drive markets in mind as well, so we should finally see the GLK in places like Great Britain or Australia (the current generation is oddly sold in Japan in a left-hand drive configuration, ed).
What we don't get is why isn't any of the pre-production prototypes spied so far shedding any of their camouflage.
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