The all-new Mercedes-benz GLE there's a lot going on here it's stronger it's bigger you can even get a third row there's so much to talk about there is so much tech in fact this is basically the smartest most innovative Mercedes in the lineup right now so without further ado let's get into it .. since the mercedes-benz m-class debuted just over 20 years ago more than 2 million people have made it their preferred luxury SUV now called the GL II it's the best-selling SUV in the history of Mercedes-Benz the new GLE is brand new from the ground up and is larger in almost every parameter it's 105 millimeters longer it's now wider it's a little bit shorter but the wheelbase is 80 millimeters longer the wide angles sea pillars really anchor this utility to the ground and wheel sizes range from 18 to 22 inches what I really like is the larger wheel options give the GLE a staggered tire configuration which really looks great the rear has a nice tapered top and a wider body look on the bottom LED headlights and taillights are standard





The new GLE's design not only looks great but it is very slippery posting a point two nine drag coefficient. this is the lowest of any in its class with all these changes and enhancements the new GLE is no more heavy and with advanced materials and techniques the structure itself is more than 20% better in torsional rigidity. open up the power rear hatch and you have a huge area it was big before but the opening is bigger now it's very very wide you could put a lot of things in underneath you have a spare tire that's always nice and you have the title cover this is not equipped with the third row I'm just gonna throw in a couple camera bags here just to give you an idea of the size yeah so lots of room of course if you need more put those rear seats down and you have that you can also there's a switch where you can lower or raise the vehicle so that's good for if you're maybe loading in something fairly heavy you want to lower it down you can do that right okay just a little slight click soft closed doors I love soft closed doors especially on luxury vehicles you sit in and as soon as you just look I'm gonna say whoa that's that's the feeling that you'll get when you sit in or you're a passenger









There are some really cool features that we're going to get to in a second so those two screens get a steering wheel of course you can get heated steering wheel as well you have capacitive touch buttons I love the brushed metal trim around the steering wheel .here really is something else it's like going from standard definition to high-definition it's not good on the right screen that's the one controlled by the right pad on the steering wheel or else the control pad we have a home button and there's certain ways you can control it you can use the trackpad . the a-class had that as well but what it does it can basically lifts little areas and and just move the seat around a little bit it's not like a full massage but it's nice it's definitely better than nothing and then of course you have heating balance as well we can control that you can control where the heat goes that's pretty amazing and let's go back to home now you can also swipe down as well so if we swipe down we had activate we can have intelligent suggestions and that's kind of more on the artificial intelligence side and we go down from that and that gives us these themes so let's say we want to go to adventure we go to adventure and we click that first of all our displays change this is kind of you're going off-road this has a pneumatic suspension as well and it shows where you are where the the vehicle is in terms of height and it shows on the Left screen our angle and on the right screen I can see steering angle I can see all different you know approach angles and just everything about it and if we just go back let's say we want we want experience so we hit that and all of a sudden that puts us into a sport mode and all the gauges change and you get a lot sportier look on the left side of your instruments and on the right you have things like a engine parameters engine torque it looks really good the screens are so so clear same as on the a-class but are you know it's gonna be hard to get out of this vehicle into a vehicle that has just like a regular screen your eyes are gonna be like yeah it's kind of like a Retina screen for an Apple device you can also activate it by voice by hey Mercedes turn the temperature to 72 degrees the temperature to 72 degrees now she can do a lot more things if you have a power sunroof so you can open that flourish and give directions it's very similar to what Apple has with Surrey but this is just with hey Mercedes tell me a funny joke okay she might not be a very good comedian and then you have below this one has a beautiful carbon fiber glossy - I love the vents I think the best way to look at this interior is from the back in the middle when you just just see everything and not carbon fiber extends over to the side this has the Burmaster sound system









huge fan of that you have wireless charging this also has apple carplay and android auto but for the USPS there are quite a few of them they have turned into USB see now so if you don't have a USB see connector you're gonna get an adapter no big deal about most of the new devices now are coming with the USB see and you know what if you're getting into this hi-tech vehicle most likely you probably have the latest device as well the seats are very very soft uncomfortable we've been driving for a day and a half now and there's no issue whatsoever now easily enough massaging seats so this isn't in the top model and it really looks and works really well one of the coolest things - the new MB UX system has to be the Augmented reality navigation and what that is is that uses cameras in the windshield here and the navigation so when you're coming up to a turning point before that it's going to turn the camera on and it's going to show you the the street names and it's going to put arrows of where you're turning and like I said it in the a class that really is the next generation of navigation it's going to be really cool to see what comes out next because this is really cool the new geo Li is the first mercedes-benz to also get an interior assist option for the MB UX system essentially there's a camera that can detect hand motions and gestures other manufacturers like BMW and Volkswagen have come up with their own versions that involve controlling the stereo or changing stations for the most part I thought needs to be a little bit gimmicky they're cool at first but after a while it's just easier just to grab the volume knob this system however uses the gestures for practical things and not only does it work in front of the main screen it works over the touchpad as well the system is also designed for both driver and front-passenger to use and can distinguish between the two you can't even trick it say you have something on your seat that you want to grab at nighttime knowing that there's not a person there as you reach for your item the light will come on after you take it away the light goes off same thing for the glovebox I can see a lot of future applications for this new technology they really did their homework and it works flawlessly also new you have these two grab handles kind of Porsche Cayenne like and this is equipped with the air suspension where you have your selector here to raise or lower the vehicle now later on we're going to talk about raising and lowering in a whole different realm using their 48 volt II suspension system it's super super cool meanwhile let's head to the back ok backseat soft closed doors suck it in this one has the power side shades really like that but I can't believe how big midsize SUVs are like this is it's huge there's so much room back here and you have your own controls so for your heating controls of course you have a USB see another 12 volt system actually it's a plug and this actually pulls out I kind of still looks like an ashtray but you can probably get that in some markets and yeah heated rear seats the carbon fiber is a nice touch this is how much Headroom there is I'm almost 511 so gives you an idea you can really stretch out but one thing I wanted to mention also is the compartments these compartments these compartment wells in the door panels not just in the rear but in the front are really big thank you you could probably go to 7-eleven and get a couple of big gulps and they will fit in there no problem they are huge they're really really wide so one other thing that's new to this new G le is the option to get a third row now three rows in this so that really opens it up maybe you like the size but you don't want to go as big as the big GLS and you want to stick to this size well now you have the option because you can carry a couple extra people more in a pinch time to drive once again excuse the voice hope you can put up with it for a few more minutes it's worth it there's some really cool things coming anyway its new for jilly a new turbo four-cylinder 2-liter and that puts out 255 horsepower and 273 foot-pounds of torque but that's not what we're driving we are in the brand new inline turbo 6-3 liter engine nup about 362 horsepower and 369 time feet of torque that's match to a 9 speed automatic and that 4matic system that we mentioned now we're at sport mode right now and ok we are kind of going a little bit over the speed limit and I will slow down a little bit the one we're driving right now has the optional air suspension and I like it I like a nice plush ride we were in Texas we were at our ranch and we were going over a lot of those cattle guards you know those those round bars and there there's some big gaps there big ones then when you're driving over with this thing at any speed it just sucks it all up and isolates you really well now talk about isolate they've done an amazing job of the actual structure it's stronger of course we didn't mention that it was longer and bigger but it's stronger they've added a lot of things to it to make it a lot quieter and that's all done naturally there's no artificial noise cancelling in this cabin and it's really noticeable really how quiet it is and that's what you'd expect for a Mercedes Benz this GLA really has a very premium upscale feel when it should because it's a Mercedes but you know this really reminds me it's a little bit rougher in a way it's not quite as smooth as an s-class but if you want that s-class experience you're close to one but you want that right height and the more utility this is really the best of all worlds here's some more tech along with the optional air suspension they have a brand new e active body control system and what that is in come in conjunction with the air suspension it uses an electro-hydraulic system and it can actually move and pump up basically your each side of the car and we had a sample of this dancing car now obviously they had some programming to do that but there was nothing else that was changed on this car they made Gantz everything was stock so that was the capabilities of that in real world applications a couple things if you want to go off-road for instance perhaps in the sand mud or even in snow which we have that in Canada you can use that system and it can crawl out of areas by hopping so imagine yourself in sand and it'll can go up and down and hop and build dirt or sand up below it to get you out and the same goes for snow it's very very smart and depending on the situation you're in you can actually adjust each side individually they all have their own pumps and that's the first it's industry first for any vehicle to have that ability also on the street there is something called curve well you put the curve on say you're doing some twisty roads and what it does is the vehicle will basically lean the opposite way and it will adjust not just left and right but front and back as well so imagine a motorcycle when you're leaning in and it'll do that up to three degrees doesn't sound like much but it really makes a difference the new goe 450 also gets a new 48 volt system which can aid in the motor switching off more often when not needed it also gives an additional EQ boost at startup with an additional twenty-one horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque which is really handy for getting a larger vehicle like this GLE up to speed and it also provides a power for that active suspension then we get to safety and driver's assistance of course Mercedes is well known for some of their advanced driving systems like the radar cruise control and adaptive radar cruise control you have link keeping assist things like that but they've added on now first of all for stop and go traffic if you're stopped you come to a stop you don't even have to hit the gas pedal or any of the buttons for up to 60 seconds so this really will drive for you in those brutal brutal traffic jams another new thing the blind spot monitoring and the cameras and everything are working in conjunction and they can warn you if you're going to open the door if there's a car coming or maybe a bicyclist and that system even works after you switch the car off for three minutes so they're always thinking here's another thing there's something called a pre safe sound this doesn't new to the goe these are the things that they're thinking about so did you know if you have a serious crash and the airbags deploy that a lot of times your eardrums can get damaged that's right so what they've done now is there's sensors if they sense that you're gonna get an imminent crash prior to your crash and the airbag is deploying the system emits a special frequency and that frequency that frequency actually closes down part of your eardrum to protect it you know and then you have things like electronic seat belt tensioners which have been around for a few years all these things just make the vehicle so much safer and there's just so much more we can talk about we can go on and on and on like this thing really is the bomb





mercedes-benz has always been a leader of innovation even back in the old days with the first anti-lock braking system they developed and this new jelly is really a showcase of their product of what they've done from that point until now everything about not just the in - technology with the MB UX system which is very very cool but all the safety features that you can and can't see that new suspension all of that put together and this really is a technological marvel if you're in the market or think about getting in the market for a midsize luxury SUV this gle really should be on your list and if you love technology you really won't be disappointed













keywords: