Last year, Mercedes-Benz officially released the compact seven-seat SUV Mercedes-Benz GLB based on the transverse engine front-wheel drive platform. With the release of the new car, the Mercedes-Benz GLC, which only has a five-seater version, seems a bit embarrassing all of a sudden. At the very least, it will embarrass those who have more cash and not enough to buy a Mercedes-Benz GLE.
Fortunately, this embarrassment seems to change with the debut of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC. A few days ago, some foreign media exposed a set of road test spy photos of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC. Judging from the spy photos, the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC The size of the car has been significantly increased, especially the length of the rear overhang has been strengthened. Based on this, it is speculated that the most probable event is that the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC will launch a seven-seater model.
On the whole, after increasing the size of the rear suspension, the overall image of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC presents a sense of slender station wagon style, while the slightly too heavy visual perception on the current model has been well improved. improve. The rear part of the car after increasing the size of the rear suspension also further strengthens the characteristics of the rear shoulders, so that the overall sense of hierarchy of the rear part is strengthened, and it does not appear procrastinated because of the extra space.
How to put it, from the perspective of a seven-seater car, the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC is still positioned as a subdivision of a medium-sized or even a compact seven-seater SUV. There is still a certain distance from the positioning of medium and large seven-seat SUVs. It can be inferred from this that the additional third-row seats of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC will only be used for emergency purposes.
In terms of details, the details of the front and rear of the new-generation Mercedes-Benz GLC are similar to the design of the current new-generation Mercedes-Benz family. The feature of cutting the corners of the eyes that appeared on the new-generation Mercedes-Benz series models has been retained in the new car. In addition, the details and characteristic ridges of the body will be more clear than those of the current model, which changes the rounded shape of the current model to a certain extent.
According to the current information, the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC will be based on the updated MRA platform. In addition to increasing the length of the rear overhang to accommodate the third row of seats, the width of the vehicle will also increase. It is foreseeable that with the transformation of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz GLC towards seven seats, the next generation of Audi Q5 and BMW X3 are also expected to launch seven-seater models. Let’s wait and see.
