coolsaber

Valid point, however nothing noticeable effect wise on the sales numbers.

Hoovey689

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Fizzboy7

Pug or blunt nose would describe the front. It is very upright, but so are the others in this class.
So how the heck do you shift gears in this thing?

RXSF

Its the column mounted gear shifter as with every MB

bitkahuna

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Not wow’ed by exterior, but interior is awesome.

Benoit

Yes, but we are speaking about a GLS shaped like a rounded-edge-fridge. If you could find the data about this car, I would like to compare it to some real aerodynamic cars out there. Would be rather interesting. But even with pure logic, the aerodynamic print of "more surface and more square" will not be of an advantage.

And don't forget that Mercedes also was part of the Dieselgate, and was part of some shady lobbies in Germany to make sure that eco-friendly car will not came out too fast. If they can kill our childrens for profit, I believe they are not in a position to respect us as customers.

Sulu

Rounding off the edges of the big fridge will help but only help a little bit.

Total drag force is dependent upon both the coefficient of drag and the frontal area.

Rounding off the edges and smoothing out that big fridge by putting a pointier nose on it will lower the coefficient of drag, but the fact that the fridge is big means it has a large frontal area. It does not matter if a pointy nose was grafted on or not, it still has a large frontal area.

bitkahuna

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i knew a girl like that once...

peteharvey

Did you guys know that at road normal road speeds 60-120 mph, a round Boeing/Airbus nose, has less aerodynamic drag than the pointy nose of a F-18 Hornet?
Because the round nose has less surface area than the sharp nose cone.

However, at supersonic speeds, the pointed nose cone of the jets has less sonic boom.

RXSF

news outlets are reporting a drag coefficient of .32. That is better than the X7 at .34 and the Q7 at .33

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

lx570 is .35

Benoit

So he is the best fridge in the fridge class.

Still worse than an old lexus of the early 2000's 0.25, a corvette has 0.34, the Subaru BRZ has 0.27, the Nissan Leaf 0.29, BMW 3 series is at 0.30. Means... a 25'000$ 10yo car will absolutely smash it to the ground in drag coefficency.

(And don't forget, Mercedes like to cheat and lie. So their number could be "under conditions" that couldn't be replicated by the client. It would not be surprising. Adblue also stopped working under 14°c until they where caught)

RX_330

Kinda disappointed in the third row appointments compared to the X7's.