Touring Michigan's Wine Country In The Biggest Of Benzes Mercedes-Benz builds a beautiful GL-Class SUV with top-spec luxury amenities that is perfectly suited for the daily driving needs of a dad or a mom (68-percent dads, according to 2011 figures) and with what we can only believe is a very nice 362-horsepower V8 engine. What the company sent our way, however, was a heavily blinged, huge-wheeled, 429-horsepower pleasure wagon that is just as well-suited to creating babies as toting them around, should your amorous instincts be triggered by the pimp-level of your whip. The GL550 is the ... Read More

Vital Stats

Engine:: Turbo 4.5L V8
Power:: 429 HP / 516 LB-FT
Transmission:: 7-Speed Auto
MSRP:: $100,115 (as tested)

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Crossover Redefined: Lagonda concept based on Mercedes GL 1236628560

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