A test-mule of the second-generation Mercedes-Benz GL-class continues to be spied. Auto and Driver has posted pictures from the three-row ute testing in the Nurburgring. The prototype was covered in a generous amount of camouflage, however it is nonetheless effortless to make out which the new GL-Class will search fairly a lot like the outgoing design. Automobile and Driver observes, “A similar rising beltline, blunt nose, and upright profile all are evident right here, even though the detailing will absolutely alter. The windows should get larger, together with the backlight growing to be even more sloped, and, from these pictures, it looks such as the rear fender line will sweep all of the way back for the bumper.”
Engine alternatives for that 2013 GL-Class will contain the return with the fuel-efficient 3.0L turbo-diesel V6 which at present makes 210 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. The gas-powered option will almost certainly be a V8 for your U.S and a 300hp V6 for other markets. According to Auto and Driver, the GL500 is going to be getting Benz’s new twin-turbo 4.7L V8 that tends to make among 400 to 450 hp, plus the fate from the by natural means aspirated 4.7L V7 in today’s Gl450 is unfamiliar. A hybrid can be expected as Mercedes currently a two-mode gas-electric ML. The check mule in the spy shots is perhaps a GL550 with the AMG sport package deal. The redesigned GL-Class is probably to appear in idea type at an automobile demonstrate during fall later on this year, and may perhaps hit showrooms as early as 2012 as a 2013 design.