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Outstanding comfort, superb road presence and a smooth diesel engine make the Mercedes Benz GLS 400d a great ultra-luxury family SUV.
The Mercedes GLS is the biggest family SUV Mercedes offers. The Mercedes Benz GLS 400d is seen as the S-Class of SUVs. With even distant relatives of SUVs selling in high numbers, having a good SUV in your lineup makes a huge difference. This…
Outstanding comfort, superb road presence and a smooth diesel engine make the Mercedes Benz GLS 400d a great ultra-luxury family SUV.
The Mercedes GLS is the biggest family SUV Mercedes offers. The Mercedes Benz GLS 400d is seen as the S-Class of SUVs. With even distant relatives of SUVs selling in high numbers, having a good SUV in your lineup makes a huge difference. This year Mercedes has updated the GLS, giving it all the equipment and tech almost every Mercedes car gets, and have brought it more in line with the status quo of the brand.
A curvier design, squared-off headlamps, and slim tail lights. This has vaguely been the theme of updation of the recent iterations of all SUVs Mercedes makes. The first thing that stands out about the GLS is its sheer size. It’s a massive car, all the proportions are big. This does mean that this car, with its massive wheels and tyre width, has a demeaning road presence.
The squared-off wheel arches with good amounts of chrome all around give the GLS a bold and muscular look.
The front end looks smart of Mercedes Benz GLS 400d. The squared headlamps work with the bigger proportions, and the large bonnet has a few lines and creases, so it does not look unnecessarily large. Mercedes has not messed with the grille, and hence it fits in well with the front end design. The side is where you can see the sheer length of this car, 5.2 metres of it.
The squared-off wheel arches, and the crease at the rear, where the fender bulges give it a macho look, almost like a Jeep Grand Cherokee from certain angles. The 21-inch alloy wheels suit the size of this SUV. The rear looks quite modern with its slim tail lights. The most notable aspect is the lack of a gradient at the rear. Big cars such as this usually taper the roofline at the rear to make the perceived size of the car a bit smaller.
However, Mercedes Benz GLS 400d have chosen to leave the roofline as is, dead straight, and to free up more space for the 3rd row. There is also little overhang at the rear, presumably to benefit the long wheelbase of the car, another design trait of this new Mercedes Benz GLS 400d. Overall it is a very neat looking exterior and fits in very seamlessly with what Mercedes have been doing with the “GL” lineup’s design.
The interior of the new Mercedes GLS 400d is plain luxury. Mercedes have found their mojo when it comes to designing and most importantly assembling car interiors. There are very little panel gaps, and overall, the choice of materials is very high quality. The ambient lighting is pretty much woven into every edge they could find, and looks really good at night.
The infotainment system is the latest MBUX UI Mercedes offers. This means that you would be getting voice assistant features using “Hey Mercedes” and this car also comes with Mercedes Me connectivity built-in. The 2nd row is very spacious and comes with a tablet which is essentially a mirror of the functionality of the infotainment system.
This car does come with a 5-zone climate control, 2 for the front, 2 for the 2nd row and 1 for the 3rd row. The third row is quite spacious for what it is, although is quite slow to get into, with the electric movement, of the 2-row seats. The panoramic sunroof does not extend to the 3rd row, so it does take a bit away from the airy feeling. A special “mini moonroof” would have certainly helped with that, like with the BMW X7.
The Mercedes Benz GLS 400d is available with both petrol and diesel engine options, our tester is powered by a 3.0-litre, straight-six diesel which produces 330 BHP of power and 700 Nm of torque. This oil burner is terrifically refined, can barely be heard at idle and even when you start driving, engine noise is kept well out of the bay. Turbo lag is well contained but the 9-speed gearbox isn’t the fastest with shifts, so it does take a few milliseconds more to give you a downshift. That said, the gearbox is very smooth with shifts and power delivery is linear.
Mercedes-Benz GLS 400 d