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Mercedes Benz SUV Experience

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I just got back from the Mercedes SUV experience awhile ago. The event is being held near the ice skating rink parking lot.

So I am parking my car and I spot a Mercedes G-Class doing a climb decent. I was thinking wow they actually have the G-Class here. For those of you who don’t know, my favorite SUV is the G-Class and my favorite SUV list actually goes something like this (notice they are all boxy):

1- Mercedes G-Class
2- Land Rover Defender
3- Land Rover LR3
4- Jeep Wrangler

So I get into the main tent and sign up for a ride in the G-Class and then head over to the car. Once I got close I realized this wasn’t the regular G-Class, this was the freakin 500HP AMG version! This was like the motherload. Sadly I wasn’t able to drive the car today because they had professional drivers taking the guests around the track BUT, I was promised by my Mercedes contact that once the event was over and the car cleaned up I would be able to have it for a test drive. When that happens be sure I will post about it here.

12 replies on “Mercedes Benz SUV Experience”

the G remains my favorite 4X4 ever, but as you all know its on the same price range as a 360 Modena or a souped up Porsche.
My next door neighbor has 2 White G 500. I will see if he wants a wireless access point in exchange for a day in his cars.

I hated the car a while back for being too boxy, but then I saw Top Gear do a report about it and I just fell in love. If you want to love the car download that Top Gear episode. It’s BEA-utiful.

SaREe3, the G55 back in 2004 had the old E55 355hp engine from year 1998-2001, in 2005 they added a supercharger hence the Kompressor badges on the fenders and its now 476hp which is e55 and CLS55 territory, for 2007 they added a Ecu Flash which bumps it up to 500hp.

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