Mercedez Benz News Farewell R-Class, Hello New GL-Class

[William Maley]

William Maley

Editor/Reporter - CheersandGears.com

March 20, 2012

Mercedes-Benz announced that it will cease sales of their R-Class crossover in the U.S. in 2013.

Through the first two months of 2012, Mercedes-Benz only sold 293 R-Classes, one-third less than the number sold in the first two months of last year.

Mercedes-Benz says they will continue to build the R-Class at its plant in Alabama for export to other markets.

Mercedes also confirmed the second generation GL-Class will be shown at next month's New York Auto Show. The GL-Class shares the new ML's architecture. Expect improvements interior space, fuel efficiency, and refinement. Engines will likely include a twin-turbo 4.7L engine making more than 400 HP and a diesel V6.

Source: Autoweek, Car & Driver

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[G. David Felt]

Yea the station wagon R class should be retired and just focus on SUV's with diesels as that is a good mix.

I do like the new suv shown above, but I hope they have a modern NAV and over all dash as I just checked out a new SUV of an engineer here and it is nice, but the dash seems dated and the nav seems even older than my 2006 escalade nav.

Edited March 20, 2012 by dfelt

[William Maley]

That's the current GL.. New one hasn't been shown yet

[G. David Felt]

We'll since I have not really paid attention for a while to the Mercedes SUV lineup, There existing SUV is nice looking. Thinking about it, I never really did look at the outside, just looked more inside to see how it compared to my suv.