The new Mercedes GLE bounces into our heart
In 2002’s dark cult classic One Hour Photo, Robin Williams plays a creepy loser who drives a Toyota Echo. Connie Nielsen’s rich, smart, and desirable suburban mom rocks a Mercedes-Benz ML 320. It was a perfect bit of symbolism. A few years prior, Daimler had invented the midsize luxury SUV segment with that very vehicle, tapping into an undiscovered automotive zeitgeist.
Luxury brands are now dependent on premium SUVs for profits. Car sales are down while crossover and SUV numbers are up and growing. And don’t feel too bad for the movie’s cheap shot about Toyota— its Lexus RX is the best-selling midsize luxury SUV in the U.S., outselling both the BMW X5 and Mercedes GLE (née ML) combined. Still, Mercedes sold nearly 55,000 GLEs to Americans last year, with more than 2 million sold globally over the past 20 years. Not bad at all.
Meet the fourth-gen GLE. Riding on a new platform called Modular High Architecture (MHA for short), the W167 GLE is good-looking, roomy, luxurious, comfortable, great to drive, and bursting at the seams with tech—some good, some bad.
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