Mercedes-Benz X-Class Pickup

Questofthetune · 07-18-2017, 06:06 PM

Also it's designed for beer drinking horse riders??

cliverman · 07-18-2017, 06:10 PM

Not a REAL truck. Here's a real truck.

ciaranob · 07-18-2017, 06:12 PM

Wow - take away the logo and it looks 100% like any run of the mill Toyota or Nissan etc. pick-up - entirely mundane!

Soulassassin · 07-18-2017, 06:25 PM

Based on the Nissan Navara, built by Nissan.

Ickdeep · 07-18-2017, 06:27 PM

I'm surprised they actually have photos of a manual transmission

rlmesq · 07-18-2017, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by cliverman

Not a REAL truck. Here's a real truck.

Big truck to make up for small penis?

NFiftyWon · 07-18-2017, 07:37 PM

I never understood luxury trucks. Let me sip some wine while i haul logs over a mountain? Doesnt add up. Two completely different ends of the spectrum. What's next, a 500hp Kia? Oh wait..

rlmesq · 07-18-2017, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ciaranob

Wow - take away the logo and it looks 100% like any run of the mill Toyota or Nissan etc. pick-up - entirely mundane!

I'm surprised that it's taken Daimler so long to release a pickup truck. They've been doing semi truck tractors, delivery vans, ambulances, motor homes and, of course, the Unimog for years.

Red Bread · 07-18-2017, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NFiftyWon

I never understood luxury trucks. Let me sip some wine while i haul logs over a mountain? Doesnt add up. Two completely different ends of the spectrum. What's next, a 500hp Kia? Oh wait..

Pickup beds are awesome for carrying bikes or camping gear. I would never need a "real" pickup but would love a smaller truck for weekend biking and camping. Good news is that the Wrangler pickup likely has me covered, but I'll always want that E92 pickup.

ciaranob · 07-18-2017, 07:50 PM

Agreed but look at the Unimog - awesome oddball beast that screams original engineering (albeit in part from old military applications) - and then there is this thing, basically a Nissan pick-up with a Merc badge!

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Originally Posted by rlmesq

I'm surprised that it's taken Daimler so long to release a pickup truck. They've been doing semi truck tractors, delivery vans, ambulances, motor homes and, of course, the Unimog for years.

rlmesq · 07-18-2017, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ciaranob

Agreed but look at the Unimog - awesome oddball beast that screams original engineering (albeit in part from old military applications) - and then there is this thing, basically a Nissan pick-up with a Merc badge!

I think this is one of the engineers from the original Unimog project with a prototype of the truck they really wanted to build.

rlmesq · 07-18-2017, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Red Bread

Pickup beds are awesome for carrying bikes or camping gear. I would never need a "real" pickup but would love a smaller truck for weekend biking and camping. Good news is that the Wrangler pickup likely has me covered, but I'll always want that E92 pickup.

Unfortunately, the bed looks too short to hold sportbikes. My Ford F150 with a 6.5 bed is exactly the right length to fit a 1000cc Yamaha, Honda or Ducati (or two).

supra93 · 07-18-2017, 08:18 PM

Red Bread · 07-18-2017, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rlmesq

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Originally Posted by Red Bread

Pickup beds are awesome for carrying bikes or camping gear. I would never need a "real" pickup but would love a smaller truck for weekend biking and camping. Good news is that the Wrangler pickup likely has me covered, but I'll always want that E92 pickup.

Unfortunately, the bed looks too short to hold sportbikes. My Ford F150 with a 6.5 bed is exactly the right length to fit a 1000cc Yamaha, Honda or Ducati (or two).

Yeah, I'm my bike's motor, so they fit fine, at least with the fork over the tailgate.

mkoesel · 07-18-2017, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ciaranob

Wow - take away the logo and it looks 100% like any run of the mill Toyota or Nissan etc. pick-up - entirely mundane!

That's because that is exactly what it is - a Nissan Navara with a Mercedes grill and headlights. Sure, technically, it has unique bodywork too, but there's only so much visual difference you can impart between pickup trucks to begin with. And when you furthermore start with the very same chassis, which of course yields identical proportions, there is little hope of ending up with a dramatic departure from the original.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/568250/m...ling-face-off/

bimmer456 · 07-19-2017, 11:18 AM

Check out this article Mercedes has a new pickup truck:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/n...passenger-ride

supra93 · 07-19-2017, 11:39 AM

Viffermike · 07-19-2017, 01:04 PM

For the U.S.: Not just #Fail ...

... #MassiveFail

The car has almost zero M-B DNA in it. The most obvious M-B touch is the display screen on the dash -- a design that looks flimsy and will not hold up in a pickup.

As distinctive as M-B's designs are for everything else it sells on U.S. showrooms, this will stick out like a sore, bruised, and dislocated thumb.

Honda could get away with selling re-badged Isuzu SUVs, and Chevy could get away with selling re-badged Mazda pickups. Heck: Fiat can even get away with selling a re-skinned Jeep. A luxury marque, however, almost never gets away with selling product that is not its own, at least in the U.S. Saab couldn't do it with a re-badged Subaru, and Alfa couldn't do it with a re-skinned Saab. What makes M-B think this is even possible here is way beyond me.

cliverman · 07-19-2017, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rlmesq

Big truck to make up for small penis?

LOL. Fast truck. No need to make up for anything.

ciaranob · 07-19-2017, 06:29 PM

Eh, kinda re-enforcing my point

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Personally see it as a really tepid, dare I say lame low risk effort to get into a piece of the PU market - has absolutely zero appeal to me.

On the other hand developing a new look, radical or not, would be far more appealing as something that differentiates form the (truly boring) crowd. To my mind only the particularly die-hard MB fan would be interested in this but I am quite sure the marketing gurus at MB have figured out their target audience/market areas and it will no doubt sell where they want it too. Still lame

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Originally Posted by mkoesel

That's because that is exactly what it is - a Nissan Navara with a Mercedes grill and headlights. Sure, technically, it has unique bodywork too, but there's only so much visual difference you can impart between pickup trucks to begin with. And when you furthermore start with the very same chassis, which of course yields identical proportions, there is little hope of ending up with a dramatic departure from the original.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/568250/m...ling-face-off/

Germanauto · 07-19-2017, 08:07 PM

The real thing looks like a Wal Mart version of the beautiful concept. Typical "3rd world" looking truck. Good thing it's not coming here.

RABAUKE · 07-19-2017, 09:31 PM

Think of the soccer mom's in their yoga pants climbing into that bad boy.....mmmmmm

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