2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42
In the 70s of the last century, one of the major shareholders of Mercedes-Benz was the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He ordered a cross-country vehicle for the Iranian army and special forces. Daimler AG entrusted the development of such a vehicle to its Austrian division, Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and in fact to the Austrian weapons company Steyr, famous for its sniper rifles and army trucks. When the development of the 460 series car called Geländewagen (literally almost "mud car") was coming to an end, the Shah of Iran was deposed by the Iranian revolution. Since 1979, the car began to be produced anyway, and it turned out that it was well bought up not only by military organizations, but also by civilians. True off-road performance and ascetic design appealed to many owners.
Despite the release of comfortable M-class off-road vehicles in the late 90s, the production of Geländewagen continued. In the 2000s, they decided to replace them with elongated seven-seat frame-built SUVs, which were assigned to the new GL-class and began to be produced in North America since 2006. The body shape of such cars was influenced by representatives of largesport-touring R-class minivans.
In 2009, the Mercedes GL underwent the first and last restyling to date. The new Mercedes GL is 100 kg lighter. Its hood, front fenders and suspension arms are now made of aluminum, new lightweight materials are used in the glazing, engine mounts are made of plastic. The new Mercedes GL is crammed with cameras that allow you to control the side dead zones of visibility, parking space and, without even leaving the car, look around exactly how you got stuck or hung on the road. The cameras are especially helpful when reversing.
Mercedes GL, despite its lightweight body, is a big car with a powerful engine, and it is extremely difficult to achieve efficiency from it. This is despite the fact that the owners of "Merce" like to "turn on the gas" at any opportunity. A real opportunity to save fuel on long trips is the use of the developed functions of the tempomat (the new Mercedes cruise control system) with operational control on the steering wheel. Together with the cruise control, it is proposed to use a road marking recognition system. But it does not work with the help of steering control, but with short braking impulses of those wheels that drove into the markings, and if you do not drive a car at that time, then this is a rather strange feeling.
With regard to the use of the Mercedes GL in domestic conditions, reviews from owners from Russia and the CIS countries praise the car for its excellent handling and worthy for everyonecomfort for long family trips. They scold diesel engines for “eating up” oil at high mileage, the lack of heating of the nozzles on the windshield washers, the operation of the washers themselves and the inconvenience of third-row child seats. When you get into serious off-road conditions, automation does not always save, and without experience and a meaningful sequence of actions of the driver, it most often does not work out without a cable and a tug.
Mercedes GL is primarily a car for long-distance family travel. In the case of the export of rampant companies to places inaccessible to the prying eye, the car can provide serious opposition to the presumptuous owner.
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