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Exactly my point and frustration NSL. Yes! Thats the one thing I would change cause the truck is so darn tall it looks narrow cept that it is huge nevertheless. Wider? Oh baby!! thats what I'm talking about

Listen to your alpha-customers and experts and take notes Mercedes-Benz!!

i just hope they dont make all their new models look alike, it seems like its headed for that direction .... bah!

I agree it is a shame that the day of the G is almost over. The model range is probably a burden on Mercedes-Benz production facilities though. Quite small production numbers, coupled with outdated design/construction can't be something Mercedes can continue forever - The new one will be far cheaper to produce, as it can be made alongside the rest of the Mercedes range. Does anyone know where they are planning to make them? Will they be built in America alongside the ML?

I'm not sure about that - the G was built in Austria.

Jono171: I think so .. they will be built in Alabama at the same plant of the current M Class ..

BTW i dunno why in UAE most of delivered M Classes are german made .. i know it is good but in the current weak Dollar situation .. it is much more expensive than its predecessor ..

Are the new ML's being made I europe also? I thought it was Alabama only.

This has come up many times every since Mercedes announced they were putting the old guy out to pasture.

I too will miss the "G", but I think Mercedes has to keep up with Land Rover and Lexus in the high-end luxury SUV game and the current G just ain't it.

Now, I too don't like the fact that this new ML-based GL (as they are now calling it) won't be what the current G is, but thats the price Mercedes has to pay since they've become about volume now.

Back in the old days Mercedes would have re-designed the G with its own platform and priced it how they pleased. This is personally what I wanted. A new G with the look of the old one (you know like how L-Rover keeps the Range Rover shape from gen to generation), built in Germany with the same quality of the new S-Class and the ability of the old truck off road, with the luxury of the S-Class and priced anywhere from 80-90K for the G500 version.

Now enter the world of shareholders and profits that must be made immediately and enter the shared platform with the M/R-Classes.

I don't like it either, but it is what it is. Plus the thing looks so damn common. Oh well I don't like SUVs anyway!

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I'm not really liking MB new direction. Don't get me wrong all their new cars look good but many of them don't have their own unique identity. If you look at the R, S, A, B and the new ML they all look like nothing more than a new benz. The look fresh but at the same time they seem a bit boring.

Yep, that pretty much sums up the reality of the situation.

Even if it uses the same platform, from what we can gather from the spy pics, the design could have been much better. Somthing special. The test vehicles look so plain and drab.