Mercedes GLK Caught with LED Daytime Lights

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By Thami Masemola
February 5, 2009 6:24 PM
Filed Under: German, Hybrid, Mercedes-Benz, Spy Photos

A Mercedes-Benz GLK has been spied in Scandinavia carrying LED daytime running lights. These special lights appear for the first time on a car that was launched barely 6 months ago. Instinct would say this is a facelift model but it's too soon for that. A facelift GLK can only be expected to appear at the earliest in 2011. So these LED lights can just be called a new option for the GLK. Any GLK model?

Performance testing is a very expensive and time-consuming exercise, and to take a vehicle all the way to Scandinavia for a set of new lights makes little sense. Speculation says this is no ordinary GLK but one powered by a hybrid powertrain. Mercedes-Benz and BMW have been jointly developing a hybrid system and Audi is known to be preparing a Q5 hybrid. Therefore this car might be a GLK hybrid which would offer LEDs as part of some package. The Mercedes hybrid could possibly debut with the S400 BlueHybrid this coming European summer.

 

Comments

wjaprep
February 5, 2009 11:02 PM
Yet another feature in cars I yet to understand, i mean rlly, if u cnt see a car comming at you in the daytime, should you rlly be on the road?

BabyMilo
February 6, 2009 12:21 PM
it is actually a good idea, becuase it makes the car move visibale for a further distance and in some countries like Sweden you need to have your lights on by law

ap
February 6, 2009 3:33 AM
I cannot bare daytime running lights, they look ridiculous on Audis (it's like "look at me")let alone Mercedes-Benz...why MB decided to copy this for the new E Class or any other model is beyond me.

DieselDog
February 6, 2009 3:52 PM
...(it's like "look at me")... Yep! That is exactly why daytime running lights improve safety. If DRLs get you to be more aware of the car, your brain may be more inclined to figure that car into your driving calculations (Do I have the time to make a left infront of that vehicle? Is it in my lane? Am I in its lane? etc.) I appreciate those who are trying to make the DRLs more aesthetically pleasing instead of highly annoying. "Dimmed" high beams are annoying. Steady amber indicators are OK. LEDs as on the Citroen DS3 concept, Audis, and others are more interesting. I would like to see something other than the dot-dot-dot matrix of LEDs, however.

wjaprep
February 7, 2009 1:13 AM
Thanks for explaining, So far here in the US, I havnt met any cars w/ LED DRLS just the dimmed high beams of the Lexus.

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