Mercedes-Benz 2013 Off-Road SUVs. Exceptional!!

This week, Mercedes-Benz Canada via their Driving Academy held one of their best ever Off-Road Ride & Drive training exercises for their Eastern Region automotive sales and support staff at Mont Rigaud ski resort near Montreal. The last Ride and Drive was held in this Region in 2007 when the All Redesigned C Class was being launched. For a long five years automotive consultants yearned and requested for more Ride & Drives.  Finally, Mercedes-Benz responded in an unprecedented manner by unleashing vehicles worth over two million dollars for this Off-Road Ride & Drive.

The beautiful, quiet and scenic town of  Rigaud with a Population of over 7300 inhabitants had the joy of watching and drooling at 2013: G Class, GL Class, M Class and the face lifted GLK Class as their community was literary flooded with these expensive cars. However, thanks to the trainers as due attention was exercised  to respect the community and cause as little damage to the environment as possible.

Our first port of call was to jump into the over $100,000.00 G Class off-road vehicles shown above and off into the woods we drove. 

Upon entering the vehicle most of us were awe stricken by the state-of-the-art ergonomics displayed in a very simple fashion. Everything in the cockpit was within easy reach of the driver. A few things were completely re-designed, for example, the high-quality dashboard with central, free-standing 17.8 cm color display unit,a new instrument cluster with round-dial instruments and white color display (just like you find in most sporty Mercedes-Benz cars), a centre console with centre dome and generously-sized trim elements, and a multifunction steering wheel with shift paddles,

In the woods, after having locked the rear and front differentials and selected the appropriate drive mode D1 the G Class attacked everything thrown at it with the ruthlessness of a true master of the jungle. The vehicle was superb over rocks, logs, tree stumps, narrow in-between-tree maneuvers, deep muddy areas, slippery surfaces, steep hill ascents and steep down hill descents.The driver had the easiest of tasks : that of guiding and pointing the vehicle where he/she wanted it to go and just to provide it with sufficient gas and the vehicle would do the rest.

Even drivers with less off-road driving experience looked like experts. From time to time, our instructors had to call out to guys not to be carried away by the exciting growl from the V8 engines and then over rev them.

Muddy exploits!!

The line up was very impressive too thanks to Mercedes-Benz Canada.

We also had exciting drives on 2013 GL Class, ML Class and GLK Class. These vehicles were very exceptional in managing different terrains. I have full blog stories on these vehicles somewhere in this blog,check them out on the left menu.

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