This is an enormous SUV, although the Emerald Green Metallic paint helps masks that considerably. Still, once you’re using on 22-inch AMG multispoke wheels — that do not, frankly, look outsized on the GLS — you are going to be hefty. Mercedes suits illuminated operating boards as commonplace, however they’ve a irritating tendency to brush filth on the again of your pants legs.

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Still, clamber inside, and it is laborious to be too indignant. Leather upholstery comes commonplace, together with a panoramic glass roof, heated and ventilated entrance seats with therapeutic massage, soft-close doorways, heated rear seats, and five-zone (5!) computerized local weather management. The glorious Burmester Surround Sound audio system is commonplace, too, although the SUV right here acquired the even higher 3D improve (including $4,550 to the sticker).

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Other choices embrace a wooden/leather-based steering wheel ($600), the Warmth and Comfort Package with speedier seat heating and heated armrests for the entrance and rear ($1,100), the Acoustic Comfort Package ($1,100) with higher insulation for the glass, and the Pinnacle trim ($1,800) with a head-up show, projectors to beam a constellation of Mercedes stars on the bottom as you open the doorways, and heated/cooled entrance cupholders.