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The GL Class won 2007 Motor Trend SUV of the Year. Although the GL Class is designed for the US market, it is also sold in Europe, albeit in far smaller numbers.
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The Mercedes-Benz GL-Class is a full-size luxury SUV produced by the German carmaker Mercedes-Benz since 2006. It is a three row seven-passenger vehicle positioned above the M-Class/GLE-Class in the line-up and is the flagship of the Mercedes-Benz SUV line. The GL shares the same unibody architecture with the M-Class. The vast majority of GL-Class vehicles are assembled at Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc, in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama except for a small number of early production 2007 model vehicles which were manufactured in Germany.
The GL-Class debuted at the 2006 North American International Auto Show. It was released along the same time as the similarly sized Audi Q7, being the first German three-row, 7-passenger crossover SUVs on the market at the time; later joined by the second-generation BMW X5 that has an optional third-row seat increasing capacity up to 7. Except for the Acura MDX, most three row luxury SUVs at the time were body-on-frame vehicles such as the Cadillac Escalade and Lexus LX.
The GL lacks the typical SUV boxy styling and body-on-frame construction of the G Class in favour of an elongated and widened version of the M-Class's unibody architecture. The GL has much more luxurious equipment and better road manners than the civilian G Class vehicles.
Although the GL Class is designed for the US market, it is also sold in Europe, albeit in far smaller numbers. The GL Class won 2007 Motor Trend SUV of the Year.
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