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Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

MeMikeYouNot — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:44:07 EST

@TampaRon: It looks like a Highlander with a MB front end grafted on.

MeMikeYouNot

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

dtest5477 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:35:05 EST

doodoo, looks like a highlander to me.
no class with that one.

dtest5477

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

TampaRon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:59:01 EST

It looks like a Toyota.

TampaRon

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

POLAЯBEEЯ — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:17:25 EST

@TomAnderson: Argh, More Reality! I'm glad I didn't see your post before nap time last night, it would've spoiled my dreams.

POLAЯBEEЯ

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

FLB — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:07:43 EST

@Charles_Barrett: Ye-You mean the L-Word's got it all wrong then?!? My illusions!

FLB

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

brandegee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:45:20 EST

The wheels look useful for chopping apart aggressive rattlesnakes. This is one tough vehicle! All hail M-B Vision!

brandegee

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Ash78 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:16:58 EST

I prefer to call this the "Freizeit," since that apparently better reflects M-B's engineers' workdays.

Ash78

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

TinaChow — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:04:16 EST

Freeside?

I'm thinking Ford has already registered that model name.

TinaChow

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

smokeydog001 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:54:02 EST

Maybe add some fake wood shelf paper on the sides for that "Bauren Baron" look.

smokeydog001

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Adplusone — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:11:46 EST

Tis the bastard son of a Subaru and a transformer....frickin fugly tis is....

Adplusone

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Ed - JapanCarBlog.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:23:28 EST

This must be the most expensive Jeep Liberty ever.

Is it a surprise to anyone that the Daimler Chrysler divorce ended up leaving more than a few unwanted children?

Ed - JapanCarBlog.com

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

DoctorNineTenths — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:05:20 EST

NUMBER_SIX wins.

DoctorNineTenths

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

yellofury * * * * * — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:44:38 EST

so why are they building the M class?
Why would they make this vehicle?

yellofury * * * * *

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Tomsk — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:35:51 EST

@POLAR: Uh, wouldn't they be straight (or at least bi) then?

Also: If M-B would sell a C Class wagon with a 50-state legal version of that 2.2L diesel for $35k or so, they wouldn't be able to ship enough of them over. I mean, look at the prices of W123-body 300 TD wagons, the newest of which are now 23-years-old!

Tomsk

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

POLAЯBEEЯ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:04:11 EST

@Charles_Barrett: Sure, dash out my dreams of rich lesbians abducting me and ravaging me in the back of their GLK.

POLAЯBEEЯ

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Number_Six — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:53:19 EST

Pimp my RAV4

Number_Six

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

Beelzebubba — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:43:58 EST

More evidence that we're currently in the "malaise era" of automotive design.

Beelzebubba

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

NovaloadMissesPolar — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:40:33 EST

Those wheel spokes will age this faster than a meth-head.

NovaloadMissesPolar

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

SLR_BlowerMania — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:22:32 EST

This is a perfect example of the young designers of today doing way too much ecstasy. I know..for some of you it brings back (or should I say flashbacks)
memories of your own youth.

SLR_BlowerMania

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

charles_barrett — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:05:27 EST

@POLAR: Didn't you get the memo... rich and lesbian are usually contradictory, for some odd reason. Maybe all the disposable income goes to U-Haul rentals moving from girlfriend to girlfriend, and lesbians frequently have progeny to worry about ('cause they caught the lesbian bug later in life, I s'pose, after they'd already had a kid or two... ask Anne Heche for clarification on that phenomenon).

Don't get me wrong, I know rich lesbians, but I know ten times more working-class lesbians. They are NOT in the market for a MBZ SUV of any size.

charles_barrett

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

long_live_the_E36 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:46:45 EST

@camp6ell: Well I did say "slowly." Anyway, after completely losing it's design identity for most the 90's and 00's, who even knows what a modern Benz should look like?

long_live_the_E36

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

POLAЯBEEЯ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:45:30 EST

@long_live_the_E36: That is what is commonly referred to as a "Galendawagen". THIS is NOT a "Galendawagen".

POLAЯBEEЯ

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

camp6ell — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:38:22 EST

@long_live_the_E36: i don't know... this looks like a chrysler hangover to me.

camp6ell

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

BartMack — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:36:54 EST

all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...all around the hundreds of microchips...

BartMack

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

long_live_the_E36 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:34:05 EST

Mercedes styling is slowly (though not surely) getting back to what it should be: chunky, teutonic, bank-vault like. Of course, 2008 also requires an unfortunate helping of bling.

long_live_the_E36

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

BartMack — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:33:30 EST

A million airbags.... wow those Germans are sooo thorough. Are these the itty-bitty little airbags positioned all the hundreds of microchips so they don't get bruised from bumpy driving? Can we pop them like bubble wrap? That would be so neat.

BartMack

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

POLAЯBEEЯ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:31:12 EST

@FLB: Yes, I can just hear it now...
"I'm rich, I'm a Dyke, and I'm so over the hairy pits, Birkenstock, Forester stage!"

POLAЯBEEЯ

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

FLB — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:27:48 EST

@POLAR: That actually would probably be pretty good marketing on their part.

FLB

Detroit Auto Show: Mercedes Vision GLK Freeside Photos And Details Emerge

POLAЯBEEЯ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:24:18 EST

Mercedes introduces a Subaru Forester to attract the Lifestyles of the Rich and Lesbian.

POLAЯBEEЯ