Mercedes-Benz reveals GLE-Class – India bound

Mercedes-Benz has revised its best-seller in the SUV segment, ML-Class.

It is now called as GLE-Class as per the new Mercedes-Benz nomenclature. For the first time in its SUV history, Mercedes-Benz offers a plug-in hybrid model, the GLE 500 e 4MATIC, which combines efficiency with performance. This will even better the already low fuel consumption figures of the efficiency champion the GLE 250 d with the four-cylinder diesel engine, while delivering the performance of a V8 model. The high-performance SUV model, the Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 S 4MATIC, celebrates world première along with the GLE-Class at the New York Motor Show on 1^st April. 

The hybrid version has a selector switch on the centre console and the instrument cluster offer the driver a choice between four specific operating modes:

• HYBRID: the system controls automatically select the most sensible operating mode with combustion engine and/or electric motor for optimising the overall energy balance
• E-MODE: all-electric driving
• E-SAVE: this mode preserves the current state of charge of the battery to be able to drive on all-electric power at a later time, for example in urban traffic
• CHARGE: battery is charged while driving and when the vehicle is stationary

With the start of the new GLE generation, all diesel models will be equipped with the nine-speed 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission as standard, for the first time also with the optionally available off-road reduction gear and inter-axle differential lock. As for the GLE 63, the AMG 5.5-litre twin-turbo V8 engine is even more powerful than before: the highly sporty S-Model is rated at 585bhp.

The chassis was completely revised to deliver even better driving dynamics and agility.