docwyte
docwyte UltimaDork
11/16/23 4:09 p.m.

I've had this one for a few weeks now, so time for a review.  It's brand new, like 1600 miles on it now, I've put on 300+ I think.

Black with an ivory leather interior.  Not the color choice I'd pick for the leather, I can't imagine it's going to wear well.  Pleasing interior as far as textures and materials, but the wood on the dash is so dark I thought it was piano black, which looks horrid.  So this wood looks horrid. 

Lots of haptic buttons/sliders.  No volume knob, which is a pet peeve of mine, the volume slider sucks!  There's no feedback at all, you have to look at the screen and move your thumb on the control, just really badly designed.  Heated seats but no cooled seats?  Heated steering wheel but there's no control to turn it on/off?  Big screen in the center cluster, seems to work well.  Wireless Apple Car Play but occasionally it and the car's bluetooth fight over syncing with my phone, which is really weird.

It's got plenty of power, it's a mild hybrid system with a turbo 2 liter.  The engine sounds like a tractor, not pleasing at all but at least you can barely hear it at all.  There is no steering feel, like at all.  It gets shockingly good gas mileage, especially on an extended freeway cruise, like 50-60mpg.  It's extremely comfortable on the freeway too.  Around town it drives fine, but just feels numb.

It's a decent size, back seat fits two people, hatch space is decent, fits in my garage.  I wouldn't buy one for myself, as it just feels like an appliance and I think there are better choices for the money in that regard

lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter)
lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) Dork
11/16/23 8:13 p.m.

Heated steering wheel on-off is under the turnsignal stalk on the left side of the column.

wae
wae PowerDork
11/16/23 8:38 p.m.

I kind of felt the same way when I put a few miles on one not too long ago.  If you put a Mazda or Honda badge on it - and sold it at that sort of price point- I'd say that it was not too bad.  But I don't expect a Mercedes to be quite as buzzy as it is. 

docwyte
docwyte UltimaDork
11/17/23 9:45 a.m.

In reply to lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) :

All I see there is the tilt/telescope control for the column...

wae
wae PowerDork
11/17/23 9:50 a.m.

In reply to docwyte :

On my GL, the tip of that steering column adjuster rotates in order to turn the heated wheel on.  I can't recall if the mechanism was the same on the loaner GLC or not.

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