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Mercedes-Benz has revealed its all-new GLK. Previewed as a concept car back in January, the edgy new four-wheel-drive model will make its official debut at this week’s Beijing motor show before going on sale across Europe in October.
Based around modified underpinnings from the C-class 4Matic, the GLK is positioned beneath the Mercedes ML at a price that should see it pitched it into direct competition with the Audi Q5, BMW X3, Infiniti EX and Land Rover Freelander.
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Not good looking is it?.  I like the look of most recent MB's but this one's being thoroughly beaten with the ugly stick!

ACB:

Not good looking is it?.  I like the look of most recent MB's but this one's being thoroughly beaten with the ugly stick

 

Beaten with an ugly stick? lol. come on. the bloody thing was designed with an ugly. they didn't wait for it to be finished before beating it down with the stick. the stick was there from the start.

I like it. Maybe because it reminds me of the old G Wagon, it has a slightly old fashioned air to it, an upright, square-ish stance and isn't as overly stylized as the current other MB 4x4's.

julianphillips:

isn't as overly stylized as the current other MB 4x4's.

lol. the ML is good looking esp in the pumped up 500 or AMG spec guises but the other 4 x 4 is the GL which is basically a boat. even i could design that given an ML to take my cues from. the R Class, no comments.

I like it too. I think it looks very nice actually. Not quite as nice as the Freelander (which is also cheaper by some margin, I bet) but about a billion or even two billion times (yes !) better looking than the awful BMW X3 which was styled by a 7 year old and a new pencil case full of protractors and compasses. Now that, my friends, is an ugly car thrashed by an ugly forest (never mind stick). Its the only car that I know of which looks awful no matter what angle you look at it from.

Better than it looked at Geneva, but still looks like the mongrel offspring of a Subaru Forester and a Talbot Matra Rancho. They should have called it the Mercedes-Benz Munter.

michael knight:

looks like the mongrel

Dunno about a mongrel, the front, with its large under-headlight appendages looks the spit of a Schnauzer dog.

James Read:

better looking than the awful BMW X3

Thats not difficult. Well so i thought but merc have proved me wrong!

I think Mercedes Benz have identified customer segments that either can't see (what they're buying) or are so be-dazzled by the 3 pointed star they don't care what they're buying!

I'd like to say that given a few decades the design might grow on me, rather like a wart you become attached to or can't be bothered to go to the Doctors to have removed.

Great designs come and go. This one should just have the door slammed shut in its face.. which is what the front of the GLK resembles!

Oh dear - this looks horrible. I used to think that Mercedes built stylish handsome cars, but now I'm not so sure. We should be pleased not to see this on UK roads until the next decade, we don't really need another small SUV do we ?

 Nice elegant design i would say, not as stylish as the new Q5 or the X3 but somehow more grown up looking. The Freelander is nice too , its a pity that like the new X5 it takes a close look to determine whether one is looking at the new one or the old one.