G-turn on the electric g-class

£254,200 OTR/£XXXXX as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew “THIS IS AN EXPERIENCE RESERVED fo

An electric G-Class? Why not. It’s an ambitious idea but Mercedes has an appetite for this sort of thing that its German rivals don’t quite yet seem to have shown. Recently the company set the 24-hour

JUST HOW FAR HAVE WE COME SINCE THE 1980s? The hatchback I’m driving has 324bhp coursing through its front wheels. Deployed with a modicum of skill and mechanical sympathy, that’s sufficient to launch

Mercedes should be applauded for barrelling into this project when it has limited commercial upside. An electric G-Class was never going to make an impact on fleet averages or sales revenue, but it’s

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Can it really be seven years since the 992 generation of the 911 hit the road? Somehow it can, with events having contrived to shrink the passage of time. When the car was unveiled at the Los Angeles