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Written by Rowan Horncastle
The Frankfurt motor show is just around the corner, so German manufacturers are furiously ironing silk car covers to cloak their new cars before whipping them straight off again. But Mercedes has decided to skip that element of surprise and show us the new GLE Coupe. So here you go. As you can see, it"s exactly what you"d expect from a chopped-tail GLE. And although it may look like the designer simply sneezed while running a butter knife through a GLE clay model, there are actually some pretty major proportional changes, with an extra 20mm of wheelbase compared with the last generation. But it remains 60mm shorter than the regular GLE making this more helmsmithy. Well, that"s what Mercedes says. It also gives the coupe a more aggressive look, especially if you go for the new Mercedes-AMG GLE 53 Coupe. That"s the sub-63, softer offering form AMG and the only petrol variant at launch. It"s a lightly electrified 3.0-litre, twin-turbo six-cylinder (lined up together, not in a V) with 429bhp and 384lb ft of torque.
Date written: 27 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16722
The Frankfurt motor show is just around the corner, so German manufacturers are furiously ironing silk car covers to cloak their new cars before whipping them straight off again. But Mercedes has decided to skip that element of surprise and show us the new GLE Coupe. So here you go. As you can see, it"s exactly what you"d expect from a chopped-tail GLE. And although it may look like the designer simply sneezed while running a butter knife through a GLE clay model, there are actually some pretty major proportional changes, with an extra 20mm of wheelbase compared with the last generation. But it remains 60mm shorter than the regular GLE making this more helmsmithy. Well, that"s what Mercedes says. It also gives the coupe a more aggressive look, especially if you go for the new Mercedes-AMG GLE 53 Coupe. That"s the sub-63, softer offering form AMG and the only petrol variant at launch. It"s a lightly electrified 3.0-litre, twin-turbo six-cylinder (lined up together, not in a V) with 429bhp and 384lb ft of torque.
Date written: 27 Aug 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16722
