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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Report: Mercedes-Benz to bring next-gen GL-Class to New York 1332281700

When we caught sight of this heavily-cloaked GL-Class last summer, we thought Mercedes-Benz was just refreshing its big SUV with a cosmetic facelift and maybe a new engine. New reports seem to indicate that Mercedes-Benz may be launching an all-new, second-generation GL for 2013, however. According to Car and Driver, the new GL will be based on the ...
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Spy Shots: 2012 Mercedes-Benz GL caught testing 1278714540

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