[shockwaveracing]

START RANT:

There is no real point for this car. Any person who needs an AMG fettled people mover obviously doesn't have any taste or a brain for that matter. I don't care whether we are in the era of crossovers or what have you. This car will cost at least $A200K, for what is little more than a glorified people mover. People carriers are built for the sole purpose of carrying as many people and their possessions in one go. If people honestly wanted to go fast, and gave it some form of rational thinking, then they certainly wouldn't want to be doing 250kph with the wardrobe on the roof, and the wife, three kids, two dogs and camping gear flying around the interior, whilst towing a bloody boat!!! Certainly not when they could get a real performance car (M3, S4, Boxster S, the list goes on) and a decent people mover for that money, with change left over. This is a car built for a niche that doesn't exist and doesn't deserve to exist. Who is honestly, in their right mind, going to use the full potential of this over-engined monstrosity, when transporting their kids around in it? Also why would anybody with an inkling of a brain get their thrills out of driving this thing on the limits? It would take a perverse mind indeed to seek a greater level of enjoyment out of driving this behemoth, instead of driving a real sports car. There is no way this thing could keep up with any of the cars mentioned above on anything other than a straight bit of road.

This is simply badge engineering taken one step too far. At the end of the day, however the Mercedes-Benz marketing machine will put its media savvy boots on, and kick all sensible logic clean out of the window, portraying this car as the and I quote the press release above "Presentation of a dynamic, near-series interpretation of the Mercedes-Benz R-Class". Or in real world speak, "We at Mercedes-Benz will systematically brainwash the greater public with media savvy terms like this, in an attempt to blind you from the truth. The truth being we have run out of genuinely original ideas for builidng a new car, so we build pointless cars like this, so that Joe Scmuck, with a healthy bank balance will buy it, greatly aiding our bottom line"

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now i need to get a beer...