I like how we’re all outraged by this as if the standard G is anything other than only marginally less stupid. That the steelies and the horizontal grille are somehow any less a product of marketing and value signaling.

Gack! Quality Maybach content incoming:

The main issue, as JoeFromPA notes, is that the whole SUV is so tightly packaged, so finely engineered that much of the vehicle has to come apart for repairs.

(jk)

That one also has hair plugs so eh.

Huh. Ridicule often is a kind of projection. 

Interesting that he makes no America reference in the entirety of the review. (His favorite pastime!) I suppose the lawyer bit is an implicit joke.

He seems so lovely.

The tubs are so absurdly light, too. I think that’s literally the secret sauce here.

Yes, your belly.

This does rather undermine the Mercedes argument that they are “the best.” It’s hard not to look at these two seemingly identical cars without coming to the conclusion that one is “the best,” only slightly lesser in every regard.

This and not the T-Roc? Just... why? I would get it more if they abandoned the Passat to create a low volume Passat / CC / Phaeton replacement, but ??

Hmmm. But I do think it’s more than just the hypocrisy. It is the profound denial and delusional thinking that it signifies, and these are dangerous qualities for a leader to possess. So I do think it’s different when anti-gay policies are coming from a place of traumatic self-hate.

And snow like this would be absurd in Osaka.

Some percentage of trucks are work trucks, and that’s why the class exists, but the majority of trucks that are sold in this country are mall crawlers and grocery getters.

I see some proto Spindle Grille action going on here.

Yes, obviously I recognize that these were never basic utility vehicles. (They’re Range Rovers!) But similarly, they were never about concours grade hide or leather wrapped dashboards.

It’s also obviously not designed to be a hot hatch. This is more a cynical marketing move to counter the criticism that the thing is too weird / dweeby in its original state.

Obviously I do not claim it was the proletariat’s choice, but the earliest ones had plastic, hose down interiors for a reason.

Glorious work. But I can’t help but wonder if the $185k price tag goes against the very ethos of the original Rangie. These were supposed to be work vehicles that transcended class; it is only now that we have come to think of them as one among the Porsches (Singer) and Jaguars (Eagle) of the world.