Paul Tan on the Automotive Industry
German magazine Autozeitung features a rendering of a Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class compact SUV on its front page this month.
If such a project indeed exists, GLA will be a compact SUV to go against the Audi Q3 and the upcoming BMW X1 and might end up being based on the platform of the next generation A-Class and B-Class, which means a transverse engine layout.
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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WOW! This is by far, one of the best looking compact Merc SUV I’ve seen!
I want one!
It should kick the VW Tiguan, BMW’s X3, Audi Q5 to the kerb!
nice…i wonder if it comes in black…xD
I see that Merc is following Audi now by using LEDs..hmm
now it looks lagi ganas, cool!
It looks like NISSAN
Sweet ride.
similar to qashqai?
somehow cars in these class always look good.
crossover.
hmmm… I think this SUV reminded me immediately of Chevloret Captiva.
I will have to see the interior to dismiss me of that idea.
xc60 love nicer
and then only in left hand drive again because their 4-matic system which is inferior to quattro, xdrive, subaru 4wd etc etc can’t be changed for rhd?
Paul, is it typo error “Audi Q3″
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_Q7
Lawsuit on the use of the letter Q
In early 2005, Nissan sued Audi over the use of the letter “Q” as a model name.
Audi is using the “Q” for the designation of their quattro four-wheel drive system, used in production cars for over twenty-five years (Audi’s quattro trademark is actually an umbrella term for several types of four wheel drive systems developed by Torsen, Haldex Traction AB, and Borg-Warner, the latter being used in the Q7). Nissan’s Infiniti marque had been using Q as the name for sedans (the Q45) and SUVs (the QX4 and QX56) since 1989.
A settlement between Audi AG and Nissan was reached in late 2006. The agreement stipulates that Audi will only use the Q-prefix for two models, the Q5 and the Q7