Steady as She Goes

THE RACONTEURS’ MID-2000S HIT “STEADY AS SHE GOES”, particularly the chorus, keeps looping around in my head as I start back for the heart of Pune and HQ from our shoot location on the outskirts of town. I guess sometimes song lyrics have a way of succinctly summing up what you’re feeling — in this case, encapsulating my impression of the GLC 43 Coupé, having driven it for the entire day. She does go for sure and how! And holds steady while doing it. But when you break a car down and distil it to the point where all that remains are its rawest attributes, you miss out on the nuance and the intricacies, those disparate elements that come together and add up to a point where the essence is accentuated and the sum leaves the value of the parts in its wake. So, let’s examine some