Different for the sake of being different. This seems to be the appeal of many coupe-styled SUV s that have emerged over the past 15 years. They’re not necessarily more stylish than their traditional SUV counterparts, and no one will mistake them for the low-slung sports cars they hope to emulate, yet they’re unique from everything else on the road. After a week driving, I gained an appreciation for the three-pointed star’s interpretation of the body style.
However, that’s just about the only unpleasant thing about the car’s driver assist systems. The adaptive cruise control made stop-and-go traffic down the 5 freeway a breeze, keeping a reliable distance from the car ahead and accelerating smoothly to keep up with changes in traffic. Deceleration was mostly smooth despite a couple of moments of more abrupt braking. The true showstopping feature, though, is the automatic lane change function.
At the track, our tester ran from 0 to 60 mph in 5.9 seconds. That time puts it in good company with the, which we clocked at 5.7 seconds. The GLC Coupe was a full second quicker than the similarly swoopy Infiniti QX55, yet it couldn’t compete with theMore notable is the GLC’s braking performance. Although our tester exhibited some dive, it stopped from 60 mph in a remarkable 107 feet, a shorter distance than it took a GLA35 AMG we recently tested.
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