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Mercedes-AMG GLS 63 4Matic+ 9G tronic

Price: R3 178 120 0-100 km/h: 4,47 seconds Top speed: 250 km/h Power: 450 kW Torque: 850 N.m CAR fuel index: 15,60 L/100 km CO2 : 296 g/km

There’s no denying its cool factor but Maybach’s offering is arguably the more resolved package

Nikesh Kooverjee

A comfy ride and V8 rumble are the good points; lacks the overall sophistication of a Range Rover, though

Sean Parker

I shouldn’t love it, but I do. It’s so ludicrous it just makes me smile

Ray Leathern

It’s almost unfathomable that Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher – the two German engineers who tweaked the Mercedes-Benz 300 SE racing engine more than 50 years ago – would one day see their AMG stamp of approval on the rump of a GLS. Although, Mercedes-Benz’s first AMG-badged SUV, the ML 55, launched before the turn of the

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