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kotton
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Date registered: Sep 2014
Location: California, Orange County
Vehicle(s): 2006 G-500
Posts: 84
| G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
...the 4x4² is U.S.-bound straight from Mercedes-Benz after its availability here was a “definitely maybe” when we drove the truck earlier this year.
Pricing and exact allocation numbers are being kept secret, but we are supposed to have the truck available through regular Mercedes dealers starting in early 2017....
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/mercedes-will-sell-the-g500-4x4-in-am...
I wonder if we will see any of these parts for sale on our vendors websites in the near future. 4x4^2 shock hoops, portals, shocks, on board inflation, etc. |
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Otiswesty
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Date registered: Jun 2007
Location: Portland, Oregon
Vehicle(s): 463.241, 461.213
Posts: 3004
| Re: G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
I like that roof fairing with the LED light bar on each side. I would be curious to know how much abuse from branches it could handle. |
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burqueDOKA
Elite Veteran
Date registered: Jul 2006
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Vehicle(s): 1550L37Doka, 404 ROCKMOG, '00 G500
Posts: 622
| Re: G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
And yet we can't get a diesel worker here...... -------Eyes rolling------ |
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DUTCH
Administrator Doppelgänger
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: US, GA, Atlanta
Vehicle(s): 2015 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI,2018 Sprinter
Posts: 9963
| Re: G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
burqueDOKA - 6/9/2016 11:49 PM
And yet we can't get a diesel worker here...... -------Eyes rolling------
It's because MBUSA only wants and can sell every one they get of the high profit margin models/ Then, there's now also the diesel "taint" from the VW diesel fiasco. |
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Inkblotz
Expert
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: Georgia
Vehicle(s): 90 300GD "Thundering Turtle II", w/ 603A turbo
Posts: 3185
| Re: G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
And Mercedes diesel fiasco:
Reuters April 8, 2016 4:36 AM
Mercedes diesel owners file new lawsuit in US
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Owners of Mercedes diesel cars filed a new class-action lawsuit in the United States saying the vehicles likely contained a "defeat device" used to cheat emissions testing, an accusation that Daimler, which owns the carmaker, denied.
U.S. law firm Hagens Berman, which had already filed a complaint in February, said new tests had shown that Mercedes BlueTEC cars produced nitrogen oxide emissions in virtually all road tests that were far higher than in controlled lab tests.
"The fact that Mercedes passed the dynamometer test in all tests, but failed the real world test, is suggestive that like VW , Mercedes is implementing a 'defeat device'," it said in its complaint filed in the District Court of New Jersey.
Daimler said in a statement on Friday: "We consider this class action lawsuit to be unfounded. Our position remains unchanged: A component that inadmissibly reduces emissions is not used in Mercedes-Benz vehicles."
BlueTEC is a filter system which uses urea to help rid exhaust fumes of health threatening nitric oxides. It is fairly costly and used mainly in heavier cars like Diamler's large limousines or sports utility vehicles, which are equipped with powerful diesel engines.
The complaint previously filed by Hagens Berman was more limited, alleging that Daimler knowingly programmed its so-called clean diesel vehicles to emit illegal levels of nitrogen oxide in low temperatures.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said at the time it had requested information from Daimler in light of the lawsuit but had not opened an official investigation.
VW, Europe's biggest carmaker, is facing its biggest crisis in recent memory after it acknowledged last September that it had rigged exhaust emission tests for up to 11 million vehicles worldwide. |
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kotton
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Date registered: Sep 2014
Location: California, Orange County
Vehicle(s): 2006 G-500
Posts: 84
| Re: G500 4x4^2 confirmed for the US
DUTCH - 6/11/2016 3:50 AM
burqueDOKA - 6/9/2016 11:49 PM
And yet we can't get a diesel worker here...... -------Eyes rolling------
It's because MBUSA only wants and can sell every one they get of the high profit margin models/ Then, there's now also the diesel "taint" from the VW diesel fiasco.
Diesel Taint would make an excellent band name. |
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