Mercedes Alebri-G: the off-road icon becomes art

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Mercedes G-Class & egrave; a particular car because has not yet turned 50 and yet & egrave; managed, in a relatively short time, to become an icon. Just as happened with the Mazda MX-5 on the other hand: the roadster & egrave; born in 1989, the off-road vehicle in 1979.

Both are names that everyone knows, despite not having the history of the Fiat 500 behind them, as told in this video by our Nicola.

According to the latest rumors, then, the G-Class would already be; ready to cross the frontier of massive electrification in the European car world with the EQG concept envisaged for the Munich Motor Show.

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For Mercedes, for & ograve ;, the G-Class is also the forefather of a family that is now very enlarged, that of SUVs. We know that the market has long ago chosen this bodywork and at Mercedes the & quot; civilization & quot; of off-road vehicles was born in 1997 with ML that conjugated the possibility; to go off road with greater travel comfort when riding the asphalt belt.

ALEBRI-G E G MANUFAKTUR

The choice of transforming the G into a work of art made by hand with painstaking commitment is not; casual: today the off-road vehicle is; one of the few models that detaches itself from the logic of the approved and automated industry. Produced in Graz in lines where hand making is; still prevalent , the progenitor of the Mercedes SUVs & egrave; framed in the G manufaktur program.

The key word is; extreme customization, another theme now rare in the world of four wheels but still valid for a particular (and elitist) model like this one: precisely because the realization & egrave; mainly manual, the great variety & agrave; of options and possibilities; of choice by the customer & egrave; easily integrated into the production process.

An example? To date there are 26 paints including the new classic gray, plus; of 60 combinations for the seats, various packages for the interior finishes and different for the exterior.

MERCEDES SUV: TODAY AND TOMORROW

The presentation of Alebri-G & egrave; It was an opportunity for the Germans to take stock of today's and tomorrow's strategy in the SUV sector, both in terms of models, engines and platforms.

Today the range can & ograve; count on 11 models that start from the compact Segment C (GLA in the traditional world and EQA in the electric world) up to the most; extreme, including GLS which replicates the S-Class philosophy in the high wheel sector.

Diversity in the offer is also reflected in the engines and fuel choices: today petrol, diesel, hybrid (48 volt mild hybrid), plug-in hybrid and electric, two- and four-wheel drive and with figures starting from 36,000 euros coexist; up to pi & ugrave; of 171,000 euros. Thanks to these cards, in Italy for every 10 Mercedes sold, 4 are SUVs and, among these, GLA and GLC play the role of lions.


The near future foresees further expansion of the family, a sign that the desire for an SUV shows no sign of stopping even in terms of electric cars. Starting from the flexible architecture that characterizes EQC, EQA and EQB, battery-powered models made on the same technical basis as the thermal ones, we will pass; to the SUV versions of EQE and EQS which will be built on the EVA platform, exclusively electric .

The rest of the range will be; instead based on the MMA platform , capable of being s & igrave; modular but designed with mobility; electric from the beginning, to combine flexibility; of motors in the production line with the necessary optimization for battery-powered vehicles.

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