Price: R998 388 0–100 km/h: 8,17 seconds Top speed: 217 km/h Power: 140 kW Torque: 400 N.m CAR fuel index: 6,6 L/100 km CO2 : 144 g/km
All-wheel drive is an unnecessary indulgence, better spent on missing luxuries. Kudos if you’ve ever spotted one in traffic
Braam Peens
Very spacious for passengers, but rather pricey for the spec level
Peter Palm
If one were to hazard a visit to less official so-called author-edited dictionaries, the general consensus seems to be anything pertaining to an in-betweener is terminally uncool.
In the murky realm of keyboard-cowboy cancel culture, particular disdain is reserved for individuals, occupations or organisations characterised by inferior standing that seem to simply exist to fulfil no particular purpose, or merely make up the numbers.
So it must have seemed for the product planners of the GLA (that first saw the light in 2014) and GLC (2016), who had likely rolled their eyes following the subsequent introduction of Mercedes’ Johnny-come-lately, middle-child GLB in 2020. With good reason. Although the GLB shares the platform of the A-Class-based GLA
