Mercedes GL-Class facelift latest spy shots

Mercedes GL-Class facelift spy photo

Photos taken on the sly in Scandinavia reveal a few minor changes to the new Mercedes GL-Class

By Alex Ricciuti
December 5, 2008 7:11 PM
Filed Under: German, Mercedes-Benz, Spy Photos

These spy shots, taken somewhere in Scandinavia (our guess is Norway) during this early part of the winter testing season, show once again a minor face lift is coming for the new Mercedes GL-Class.

The changes are few but spread all around and include new front and rear bumpers, exhaust pipes and lights. Front headlamps will feature LED lights for day driving and full LEDs for the rear lighting.

The new GL design also comes with newly shaped air intakes.

This run to the ladies room for a quick touch up will likely not come with any new engines from Mercedes for the face-lifted GL. But the new GL will likely feature improved versions of existing engines for better fuel-economy. After all, green is in and global warming/conspicuous CO2 spewing is out.

 

Comments

Dorkington
December 5, 2008 8:38 PM
It is not Norway, it is Sweden. The north of Sweden is the place where nearly 100% of all car winter testing take place!

BabyMilo
December 5, 2008 11:17 PM
the GL has already been facelifted in Australia

DieselDog
December 6, 2008 4:52 PM
"Face lift?" I'd say "tweak," at best. One manufacturer stands out as the best at using VERY well-designed, good-looking LED lamps to tweak a current design: VOLVO. If you have seen the rear lights on 80s, and XC70s. Bright, dramatic, and evenly-lit. These units are not a simple series of nine dots (Toyota Highlander and Camry Hybrid), or better-but-still-dot-matrices (Caddillac CTS, Escalade, STS; BMW 6-series). But I digress. May be a moot point anyway, as Ford may be looking to jettison the brand. Volvo will survive along with their other lines of business (trucks, buses, marine, heavy industry).

benz_man
December 7, 2008 5:08 AM
Mercedes with more of the LED foglamps. I think they will be unvailed on all models simultaneously. I've never seen a manufactuer do anything so expensive before. They must have an interesting deal with the supplier(s) for this to make any financial sense.

Reventon
December 7, 2008 4:55 PM
still looks pretty bad

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