The Mercedes X-Class Is A Chunky Pick-Up That's Headed For Production
Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan lacking the kind of badge you want on your truck? Say hello to the posh-ified cousin of that pick-up duo: the Mercedes-Benz X-Class.
Yep, a Mercedes pick-up truck, something which we’ve actually been expecting for some time. And while the vehicles you see here may just be concepts for now, a production version will indeed be here late 2017.
We’re saying ‘vehicles’ plural, as Mercedes has actually cooked up two concepts. We have the ‘powerful adventurer’ seen at the top of the page, and the ‘stylish explorer’ you see above. Essentially, the first one is for conquering rugged landscapes and indulging your inner Bear Grylls, and the second one is for making people think you like to conquer rugged landscapes, and indulging your inner Bear Grylls.
The adventurer has a raised ride height, chunky tyres and a ruddy fire extinguisher planted into the dashboard, while the explorer sports spangly 22-inch wheels and does without the adventurer’s tough grey plastic bits and running boards for a cleaner, more Chelsea-friendly look.
Peel away the skin, and you’ll find the Navara/Alaskan’s ladder frame chassis. We can expect a mix of rear-drive and all-wheel drive models for the final production version, and according to Mercedes, a V6 diesel will sit at the top of the range. No talk of V8 AMG shenanigans, I’m afraid…
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Oil change = 250$ oil change on an MX-5 = 12$
actually it’s 60 dollars for oil and all filters hehe
Excellent fact. Good to know. 10/10. Great comparison.
6x6 of that. I’ll take two
I’ll take 6, so i have 6x6x6… You know, because that’s how it works, of course…
With that mouth it could eat 5 MX5s all in one!!!
When the Toyota Tundra is crossed with the front end of a Jeep Cherokee, you get German Engineering.
Here we have two very respectable things… one is a pick up truck, one is a Mercedes badge. But together?
Wrong meme. :D still funny tho
Do you even meme?
I don’t think you know what Texans want. I don’t really either, but quarter-ton pickups barely make it as ladies’ trucks there, especially not import ones.
Wrong Meme, this truck won’t be sold in US market.
X45 or X63
It will be expensive and have a Renault engine lol
Doubt they’d use the renault engines, they’d never be able to move them! haha
HahaahH true
The Renault engines are just the smallest two engines in the A and B Class, and in the citan but that thing is completlie Renault 😂
Just to clear how big of a deal it is, apart from Mercedes there are two European pickup makers
Volkswagen and Fiat (which is actually designed by Mitsubishi)
No fords? Sux
We don’t really need pick ups in Europe though, pretty much everyone knows that guy with the Land Cruiser or Defender which can do the job and some. But the VW Amarok will be hard to beat for Merc, especially the new V8 coming out in it :P
There is the Dacia Logan Pickup Also
I will have the Brabus version.
Introducing the new Brabus X-class for when you really want to pull your cousins clothes off