It'll be leased for three years, then sold to a company that'll ship it to a third world country. There it'll rack up 100k miles on two oil changes by drug dealers before it somehow finds its way into Hoovie's Garage.
Mercedes board: can we increase revenue through parts and repairs rather than car sales like apple did with charging cables? Mercedes engineers: mfkers why didn’t you say so?!
@ Then what was the goal? It’s way heavier than the sun previous generation, loses its iconic V8, isn’t any faster, is way more complicated, and has lost its soul.
To be fair OEM type vehicles have achieved that target for a while now. Think it’s been like 20 years since the TG had their iconic review of the Mitsubishi Evo FQ400 debuted.
f1 has 1.6L engine putting out 800hp. Just have huge turbos (with no low end torque and massive turbo lag), and use electric motors to compensate for the lag
I’m surprised you said those cheap reflector cost cutting headlights are “the best in the segment” ??? Those aren’t even the upgraded lights which is wild they’re not standard on the glc 63
I have to disagree and say your generalization is too broad. Most of the NA, supercharged and turbo AMG V8s and V6s have been good engines, pretty long-lasting. For example, the supercharged V6 and V8s can go 100s of thousands of miles. This complex PHEV drivetrain worries me though!
If they weren't going to throw a V8 in there (and C63 and E53) then they probably should just make those cars EVs. They'd probably weigh less than these plug-in hybrids and you can crank out 1,000 hp from an EV. Even the 443 hp inline 6 probably could have made a GLC53 and weighed a lot less and been just as good if not better to drive and cheaper on maintenance and more reliable.
Alex, I would plug it up if I owned it. Here’s why. It’s true you won’t get a lot of electric range because of the way the EPA does the range estimates. However, the electric motor can assist more instead of being charged more, causing a drain on the gas motor. So if you plug it up every day, you can be in assist modes more often, charge modes less often. So you will literally get higher MPGif you plug it up every day, even if you won’t technically get any higher range. Hope that makes sense!
Really, the craziest thing you have driven so far this year? It's only the 10 today, and when you posted this, it was only the 9th. Just kidding, sure would like to take it for a test drive.
Very informative and as always entertaining review. I would give this a good score when after 5 year time we won't hear many blown engines off this car. It is a lot of stress on a 2L engine and there is nothing any engineer can do about it. Power to displacement is overly high, hence stress.
It's amazing how much effort automakers are putting into avoiding EVs. They would rather add 2000 extra parts than go EV. And they don't even make any money off the consumables. I think the oil companies should be paying all the fines when they don't meet emissions goals, not the automakers. The car doesn't have emissions the fuel does.
The only thing i dislike about this is the lack of ev range. This should have the ability to use the electric only for at least like 20 miles. Sure keep the battery above half charge, but at least let people get some use out of the plug Everyones talking repair bills. I see this as a lease and dispose machine. I keep it for the warranty period and hand it back when im done. Its a toy that is street legal.
On paper is bonkers. All the mechanicals,trch & innovation is MOST DEFINITELY a nightmare to fix and very costly Mercs are Mercs.This won’t sell very well.Just because it have a n AMG badge, this doesn’t deserve it’s badge as the V8.MB already lost AMG loyalty and enthusiast customers when they reduced displacement down to a V6 turbo. With an inline 4 turbo and electrified, they can kiss them all goodbye.The only buyers to these amg 4 bangers will either be dummy101s with cash to burn until before it warranty is out or suits who are posers who don’t want to get there hands dirty or pass on the problems to the next “possible” driver-owner
People bitching about not having a V6 or V8 in this one and worrying about reliability on 4 cylinder, how is the reliability on a V6 or V8 german anyways??? No wonder till now these german cars been loosing more than half the value after the 3 year lease is done. GR corolla been doing fine with its tiny 1.6 3 cylinder and 300hp. Come out of 1990's when you needed a smoky V8 gas burner producing barely 250hp.
Ppl want the sound of a V8 in there Benz or at least a 6 cylinder... That's been an iconic sound for years ... Now all of sudden your 80k Benz sounds like a gti and that doesn't sit well with alot of ppl ... Whether they know about cars or not ... The ppl that will buy this will buy for the power only and the name ... But as a car person nobody asked for this ... Everybody was fine with the V6 or the big V8 in AMGs
Yes, you're right; if reliability is a primary concern, you don't buy a German car anyway. But I don't think there's any question about whether this will be more/less reliable than the V8. Be serious! And for a lot of German enthusiasts, when you see "63" on a Benz, you want that V8. Period. It's not about pure speed. It's about the feeling you get when you run that deep, growly V8.
Is this even a PHEV if you can only go a mile on electric range 😭? And the fact that it has more power combined than a lot of sports cars from a 2 liter engine is even scarier. A rolling problem.
Too complicated, too much to go wrong, too expensive when it does. Ok if you have plenty of money and are happy to live so long with the car in the workshop...
Complex engineering yet a stunning design. However, I have a client with a 2019 C63 and both front rotors need to be replaced. Each rotor costs $5200 EACH! I’d never option a vehicle with carbon ceramics and in the case with Mercedes, stop at the GLC43 and call it a day as the 63 is going to cost a fortune to maintain!
I don't get the 1 mile EV range. There is no way the car "burnt" through 6.1 kWh of electricity in 1 mile. 6.1 kWh should be good for at least 20 miles on most EV; even Hummer EV is more efficient
This is going to be more like a 469hp car with a 671hp boost function. Even assuming that you can access all of that 6kWh battery (unlikely, very) and assuming 100% efficiency (impossible, likely to be substantially lower given it's 36MPGe EV mode efficiency), at 200hp/150kW, the 6kWh battery would entirely depleted in a little over 2 minutes. Given that you're probably only able to access about 80% of the battery and I'm guessing the electric drivetrain efficiency is quite low (lets say 50%) that means maybe 45 seconds of full power on a fully charged battery. We won't even talk about how discharging and charging that tiny battery and such an extreme rate would shorten its lifespan, so MB must have some really Draconian restrictions on how it can be used or basically offer it without a warranty. (I see you addressed that to some extent at the end of the video) I cannot possibly imagine how this is worth having such a stupidly over-complicated drivetrain. They'd have gotten far better results by just making it a full EV. Less complicated, more consistent (and probably better) performance, more usable day to day. I'd much rather have an Ioniq5 N.
That is assuming it is possible to use 671 HP (or even 469 HP) for more than about 15 seconds at a time. You would reach the top speed of this vehicle by then, and as soon as you lift off to slow down the battery will be rapidly charging, from both Regen and the engine still charging it.
It's very, very, very hard to use all the power like that. After every full throttle event on a track you're entering a corner, slowing down, etc and the system will use that time to recharge the battery. If you had a straight road to the top of Everest with an unlimited speed limit, sure you'd end up down in the 400HP range, but in the real world it's very very hard to get there.
I just can’t encourage an automaker to build something this complex and potentially unreliable, yet still be so artificial-feeling. Why would I spend $100k on a luxury CUV that gets 20 mpg and sounds like a car from Gran Turismo 2 from the 90s? I would just get an EV that would be significantly more reliable, less complex, just as quick, and have more engagement… like an IONIQ 5 N
This car is....confounding. Far too complicated to achieve this level of performance to be ,matched with a 2.0L 4cyl engine, a ton of compromises made with a silly 1mi EV range, massively heavy hybrid electric battery & drivetrain, reduced storage space (especially for a family use SUV), middling fuel economy and that stratospheric price tag. Mercedes is losing the plot, and this is coming from someone who's family has Benzes in the household.
To me this will be a disaster for our pockets there is too much going on under the hood many of us including myself will prefer a more simpler power train and delivery
I don't see why anyone would get this over the X3M...maybe except for looks. BMW ruined the design of the new X3, we can only expect worse styling from the next X3M.
YOU NEED TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO A TRACK TO ENJOY THIS CAR. MY COMPARATIVELY PUNY SQ5 COULD ONLY WIND IT UP ON EXPRESSWAY ENTRY RAMPS. THIS IS MERELY AN EGO FLEX FOR BUYERS. I SUPPOSE YOU CAN HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO HIRE GOOD ATTORNEYS…WHICH YOU WILL NEED TO FELONY SPEEDING.
Colossal failure for Mercedes. The C63 and GLC63 will go back to the V8 in 2026-27, hopefully. This is too complex, too heavy and and has no character.
@@naveenthemachinefor you maybe, but for me I’d prefer something more sonorous, more engaging and progressive in its power application even if it doesn’t have quite the same acceleration. And let’s not forget the weight factor in this type of approach.
That's just WOW....the repair bill
It'll be leased for three years, then sold to a company that'll ship it to a third world country. There it'll rack up 100k miles on two oil changes by drug dealers before it somehow finds its way into Hoovie's Garage.
Alex, This may be the most complicated drivetrain to ever feature on your channel.
I'm fairly sure it is. If you thought Volvo's PHEV was complex, the German engineers said "Halte mein Bier."
@@AAutoBuyersGuide 😉
@@AAutoBuyersGuide Ja Ja, vee do all the good things.
Mercedes board: can we increase revenue through parts and repairs rather than car sales like apple did with charging cables?
Mercedes engineers: mfkers why didn’t you say so?!
What powertrain should we put in it? Yes.
This is an example of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Still basically no EV range, paltry fuel economy, and incredible weight. Wow.
EV range and fuel economy were not the goals, so you missed the point.
@ Then what was the goal? It’s way heavier than the sun previous generation, loses its iconic V8, isn’t any faster, is way more complicated, and has lost its soul.
Just get an EV. What a maintenance nightmare!
Say more?
Get the previous generation GLC63 or the X3M. Both of those have much simpler powertrains.
I think that's why Mercedes created it. They needed to produce some post sale maintenance money for a car that should have been an EV.
Something that drives me nuts about mercedes is this is the top model of the GLC and you still have to pay extra to upgrade the headlights.
Agreed! Total madness and you can only get it with the pinnacle trim package smh.
the engineering behind this drive train really needs a whole separate video!
I mean if it’s leased it’s pretty sick. Owning this thing? Yeah I don’t want the repair shop to know me on a first name basis
You better call the Guy with the extended warranty
I'm not sure it would make it past the lease without catastrophic failure, especially if it was used on a track fairly often.
Buying this car w/o extended warranty must be the worst decision in life 😂
I would rather have a X3 with inline 6 power.
What a spooky vehicle! It handles not like an SUV, and how the heck did they manage to get over 400HP out of a 4cyl?
To be fair OEM type vehicles have achieved that target for a while now. Think it’s been like 20 years since the TG had their iconic review of the Mitsubishi Evo FQ400 debuted.
Germans man, Germans
f1 has 1.6L engine putting out 800hp. Just have huge turbos (with no low end torque and massive turbo lag), and use electric motors to compensate for the lag
@@Mark-rt6fyyou get it 😌😊
That 4 banger is gonna be so stressed with all that boost, Sh|t might bl0w tf up 🤣🤣🤣😭😭
It's like designing a rube goldberg machine that stretches across multiple rooms so it can push the On button on your coffee maker.
These will be $20k used in a few years.
Oh Burrrn .... And your right 😂
I don’t care how 4cyl work and will just go with B58/S58 all day long 😅
I’m surprised you said those cheap reflector cost cutting headlights are “the best in the segment” ??? Those aren’t even the upgraded lights which is wild they’re not standard on the glc 63
I just cant imagine putting that much stress on that motor. I know not all of the 671 is from the ICE, but still
71db at 50mph? That's not a good number.
Imagine being that 5 th owner who has to take this car to MB dealership for check engine light he-he
A miraculous, Frankenstein of a vehicle.
All year?
Though technically true, the year just began😅
We filmed it in 2024 LOL. We're 9 days behind in our editing, Eeek~!
That thing is going to be a SUPREME maintenance NIGHTMARE.
Absolutely!!!
Like all “All Money Gone” MB’s, they are worth keeping only when they are under warrantee.
I have to disagree and say your generalization is too broad. Most of the NA, supercharged and turbo AMG V8s and V6s have been good engines, pretty long-lasting. For example, the supercharged V6 and V8s can go 100s of thousands of miles. This complex PHEV drivetrain worries me though!
If they weren't going to throw a V8 in there (and C63 and E53) then they probably should just make those cars EVs. They'd probably weigh less than these plug-in hybrids and you can crank out 1,000 hp from an EV. Even the 443 hp inline 6 probably could have made a GLC53 and weighed a lot less and been just as good if not better to drive and cheaper on maintenance and more reliable.
Alex, I would plug it up if I owned it. Here’s why. It’s true you won’t get a lot of electric range because of the way the EPA does the range estimates. However, the electric motor can assist more instead of being charged more, causing a drain on the gas motor. So if you plug it up every day, you can be in assist modes more often, charge modes less often. So you will literally get higher MPGif you plug it up every day, even if you won’t technically get any higher range. Hope that makes sense!
You get it 😌
Phev batteries die real fast. In less than 100k miles the battery pack is toast.
All these complex systems working together will surely see you going for repairs within a year.
Really, the craziest thing you have driven so far this year? It's only the 10 today, and when you posted this, it was only the 9th. Just kidding, sure would like to take it for a test drive.
Remember when trucks were the heavy vehicles?! F150 is like 4000-5500ish pounds depends on cabs, etc.
Don't look at the Silverado EV.
Any prediction on how long this rig will last? Definitely at very least 3 years.
one day after warranty is their plan
why doesn’t it have rear privacy glass?
Very informative and as always entertaining review. I would give this a good score when after 5 year time we won't hear many blown engines off this car. It is a lot of stress on a 2L engine and there is nothing any engineer can do about it. Power to displacement is overly high, hence stress.
One mile of electric range, no thank you!
And I thought my 2022 GLE4504MATIC was expensive to maintain. Imagine two transmissions, 4 cylinders, an EV, plus turbo? Yeah okay, no thanks.
Since new car prices are based on residual values, and the residual value would be near zero, i cannot see this being priced over $25k.
I would definitly take Ford Raptor for the money instead of this little german toy SUV.
23:09 23:14 Underpromise. Overdeliver.
It's amazing how much effort automakers are putting into avoiding EVs. They would rather add 2000 extra parts than go EV. And they don't even make any money off the consumables. I think the oil companies should be paying all the fines when they don't meet emissions goals, not the automakers. The car doesn't have emissions the fuel does.
The only thing i dislike about this is the lack of ev range. This should have the ability to use the electric only for at least like 20 miles. Sure keep the battery above half charge, but at least let people get some use out of the plug
Everyones talking repair bills. I see this as a lease and dispose machine. I keep it for the warranty period and hand it back when im done. Its a toy that is street legal.
On paper is bonkers. All the mechanicals,trch & innovation is MOST DEFINITELY a nightmare to fix and very costly Mercs are Mercs.This won’t sell very well.Just because it have a n AMG badge, this doesn’t deserve it’s badge as the V8.MB already lost AMG loyalty and enthusiast customers when they reduced displacement down to a V6 turbo. With an inline 4 turbo and electrified, they can kiss them all goodbye.The only buyers to these amg 4 bangers will either be dummy101s with cash to burn until before it warranty is out or suits who are posers who don’t want to get there hands dirty or pass on the problems to the next “possible” driver-owner
Your thumbnail is so silly 😂 I'm sorry it's what excellent journalists need to do to get reach on TH-cam. Still watching.
Sad but true...
X3M also doesnt exist anymore
People bitching about not having a V6 or V8 in this one and worrying about reliability on 4 cylinder, how is the reliability on a V6 or V8 german anyways??? No wonder till now these german cars been loosing more than half the value after the 3 year lease is done.
GR corolla been doing fine with its tiny 1.6 3 cylinder and 300hp.
Come out of 1990's when you needed a smoky V8 gas burner producing barely 250hp.
Ppl want the sound of a V8 in there Benz or at least a 6 cylinder... That's been an iconic sound for years ... Now all of sudden your 80k Benz sounds like a gti and that doesn't sit well with alot of ppl ... Whether they know about cars or not ...
The ppl that will buy this will buy for the power only and the name ...
But as a car person nobody asked for this ... Everybody was fine with the V6 or the big V8 in AMGs
Yes, you're right; if reliability is a primary concern, you don't buy a German car anyway. But I don't think there's any question about whether this will be more/less reliable than the V8. Be serious! And for a lot of German enthusiasts, when you see "63" on a Benz, you want that V8. Period. It's not about pure speed. It's about the feeling you get when you run that deep, growly V8.
@@jermainec2462 Exactly right! "63" means "V8" and nothing else will do!
For that "money" it should go 100mpg, they just make stuff we don't need.
What is the point of those plastic engine covers? Don't they interfere with heat dissipation?
@@pawelzieminski6717 potentially, but likely designed to not be too impactful and work as a part of the NVH goals they had set out for this.
Not gonna lie, I kinda want this now...
Is this even a PHEV if you can only go a mile on electric range 😭? And the fact that it has more power combined than a lot of sports cars from a 2 liter engine is even scarier. A rolling problem.
2025 bmw x3 review when
You’re a lot nice than I am. Having the 4 cyl is not the same. 19:00
Why bother with a plug? Weird...
24:45 24:50 Distortive government-action.
All that interior"s missing is glitter. On the other hand, the exterior looks like it was a leftover design from 1990. Very bizarre.
Wayyyy too expensive
Too complicated, too much to go wrong, too expensive when it does. Ok if you have plenty of money and are happy to live so long with the car in the workshop...
i think it make way much more sense than the C63.
Complex engineering yet a stunning design. However, I have a client with a 2019 C63 and both front rotors need to be replaced. Each rotor costs $5200 EACH! I’d never option a vehicle with carbon ceramics and in the case with Mercedes, stop at the GLC43 and call it a day as the 63 is going to cost a fortune to maintain!
I don't get the 1 mile EV range. There is no way the car "burnt" through 6.1 kWh of electricity in 1 mile. 6.1 kWh should be good for at least 20 miles on most EV; even Hummer EV is more efficient
This is going to be more like a 469hp car with a 671hp boost function. Even assuming that you can access all of that 6kWh battery (unlikely, very) and assuming 100% efficiency (impossible, likely to be substantially lower given it's 36MPGe EV mode efficiency), at 200hp/150kW, the 6kWh battery would entirely depleted in a little over 2 minutes. Given that you're probably only able to access about 80% of the battery and I'm guessing the electric drivetrain efficiency is quite low (lets say 50%) that means maybe 45 seconds of full power on a fully charged battery. We won't even talk about how discharging and charging that tiny battery and such an extreme rate would shorten its lifespan, so MB must have some really Draconian restrictions on how it can be used or basically offer it without a warranty.
(I see you addressed that to some extent at the end of the video)
I cannot possibly imagine how this is worth having such a stupidly over-complicated drivetrain. They'd have gotten far better results by just making it a full EV. Less complicated, more consistent (and probably better) performance, more usable day to day. I'd much rather have an Ioniq5 N.
That is assuming it is possible to use 671 HP (or even 469 HP) for more than about 15 seconds at a time. You would reach the top speed of this vehicle by then, and as soon as you lift off to slow down the battery will be rapidly charging, from both Regen and the engine still charging it.
It's very, very, very hard to use all the power like that. After every full throttle event on a track you're entering a corner, slowing down, etc and the system will use that time to recharge the battery. If you had a straight road to the top of Everest with an unlimited speed limit, sure you'd end up down in the 400HP range, but in the real world it's very very hard to get there.
I'd rather have an es350 with a dead simple 3.5 liter v6 and a normal 8 speed transmission
I just can’t encourage an automaker to build something this complex and potentially unreliable, yet still be so artificial-feeling. Why would I spend $100k on a luxury CUV that gets 20 mpg and sounds like a car from Gran Turismo 2 from the 90s? I would just get an EV that would be significantly more reliable, less complex, just as quick, and have more engagement… like an IONIQ 5 N
Very complicated, good luck to the person that will have to fix this when it breaks down.
Is this eligible for California's carpool lane sticker, or is CARB smarter than that?
This will be unmaintainable once past the warranty period. I'll take the slight lag with the V8 over this, every time.
My first impression is chintzy. All the luxury check boxes but less practicality than I expect from Mercedes.
Maintenance Nightmare
4 cylinder 🤮
Drive it and see the insane performance before you say it’s a 4 cylinder
@ he said it’s a four-cylinder I didn’t I just repeated it
This car is....confounding. Far too complicated to achieve this level of performance to be ,matched with a 2.0L 4cyl engine, a ton of compromises made with a silly 1mi EV range, massively heavy hybrid electric battery & drivetrain, reduced storage space (especially for a family use SUV), middling fuel economy and that stratospheric price tag.
Mercedes is losing the plot, and this is coming from someone who's family has Benzes in the household.
To me this will be a disaster for our pockets there is too much going on under the hood many of us including myself will prefer a more simpler power train and delivery
I don't see why anyone would get this over the X3M...maybe except for looks. BMW ruined the design of the new X3, we can only expect worse styling from the next X3M.
Alex, in just this one clip I have watches about 14/15 ads… I don’t mind some but this is just getting a bit irritating
YOU NEED TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO A TRACK TO ENJOY THIS CAR. MY COMPARATIVELY PUNY SQ5 COULD ONLY WIND IT UP ON EXPRESSWAY ENTRY RAMPS. THIS IS MERELY AN EGO FLEX FOR BUYERS. I SUPPOSE YOU CAN HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO HIRE GOOD ATTORNEYS…WHICH YOU WILL NEED TO FELONY SPEEDING.
no v8 no amg
No one want this. They will have huge discount like C63
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Colossal failure for Mercedes. The C63 and GLC63 will go back to the V8 in 2026-27, hopefully. This is too complex, too heavy and and has no character.
Very unlikely. V8s can't pass emissions requirements in civilized countries anymore.
So basically it only competes with the BMW, because who on this planet is dumb enough to be buying a 2025 Alfa Romeo?
I have an Alfa, and it's solid. What's dumb is buying this potential turd box.
No, just no
4 cylinder…. No one wants one.
Wrong…
Damn you will spend more at the garage for repairs and mechanical issues than driving this thing 😅
nobody is buying that
This ridiculously overcomplicated Heavy box. Just imagine how many hours I’ll spend in the shop
An ugly foolish creation.
As long as the vehicle is fast fun to drive and luxurious it doesn’t matter what engine it has
To me sound and feel play a big role in my perception of a vehicle and the fun factor it might have.
@@ALMX5DPbut the sound will quickly disappear once you see the improvements in performance and drivability
@@naveenthemachinefor you maybe, but for me I’d prefer something more sonorous, more engaging and progressive in its power application even if it doesn’t have quite the same acceleration. And let’s not forget the weight factor in this type of approach.
And let's not forget the instant torque.....
But to reach their own....
@@ALMX5DP then the Miata’s your answer
I must wonder if Mercedes-Benz has hired a bunch of retired Chinese car designers who designed cheap Chinese cars two decades ago.
It would be way better with a V8 under the hood. A 4 cylinder just doesn't suit a performance wagon.
Still ain't buying 4 cylinder lying 63. Only S63e which I put an order on! But, hybrid shit pisses me off
When I do the math 469 + 201 = 671 not 671, lol