2012 Mercedes-Benz M-class / ML350 4MATIC / ML350 BlueTec - Car and Driver (blog)
Before the recession, Mercedes-Benz had no trouble selling 34,000 MLs in the U. S. each year. Right now, in fact, ML sales are up 14. 5 percent. “It puts us in a funny position,” confesses Mercedes U. S. A. president and CEO Ernst Lieb. That’s nonetheless what Mercedes is doing with its third-gen M-class, which, we hasten to add, resembles wieners and waffles only in its ability to cause customers to queue up. The first to arrive is the ML350 4MATIC, powered by a new,... The baseball bat of a turn-signal/wiper stalk thankfully has been moved to the 10-o’clock position on the steering column, and its cruise-control function has been relegated to a second stalk at 8 o’clock. Unfortunately, you’ll still find yourself flicking at the column-mounted gear selector whenever you desire wipers. On road, we drove a gas-powered ML350 with the Dynamic Handling package. We never felt it coupling or decoupling. Source: www.caranddriver.com
