On August 25, the "The World is Your Journey" 2024 Mercedes-Benz SUV Tour, guarding the world within, came to a successful conclusion at the Xi'an Aerospace City Test Drive Base! This event was jointly presented by 10 Mercedes-Benz authorized dealers in the Xi'an region, joining hands with Mercedes-Benz owners and friends from Xi'an mainstream media to command the world and fully experience the extraordinary driving performance of the Mercedes-Benz SUV family.
With strength, it resounds across the world, no matter how rugged the road ahead, the journey never stops! "The World is Your Journey" Mercedes-Benz SUV Tour was founded in 2014 and is a product experience platform tailor-made for the Mercedes-Benz SUV family. Over the past decade, the Mercedes-Benz SUV family has traveled across north and south, driven through the five lakes and four seas, fearlessly taking on challenges and conquering rugged and treacherous terrain. Together with fellow travelers, it allows them to enjoy driving pleasure while also taking in the beauty of the world to the fullest.
In 2024, the SUV Tour Xi'an stop sets off again. "The World is Your Journey" 2024 Mercedes-Benz SUV Tour Xi'an stop kicked off enthusiastically with a mode combining professional teaching-aid test drives and road test drive experiences. More than 20 Mercedes-Benz SUV models gathered here, including GLB, GLC, GLE, GLS and other SUV models forming a powerful lineup, using footsteps and tire tracks to gallop together with the Mercedes-Benz SUV family and guard the world within.
In order to fully allow customers to experience driving under various road conditions and fully demonstrate the core product advantages of Mercedes-Benz models in luxury, comfort, high passability, and high safety, a variety of teaching-aid test drive experiences were set up at the event site, leading participants through off-road paths including wading sections, hump bridges, gravel roads, mountain roads, potholed roads, stepped roads, cross axles, and side slopes. This event also designed a mountain road test drive route that can perfectly experience the performance of the Mercedes-Benz SUV family. The test drive route featured various complex curves such as sharp turns and hairpin turns, greatly testing the vehicle's steering precision, cornering limits, braking efficiency, and mountain-road handling stability. Professional test drive instructors provided in-depth analysis on site, offering every car enthusiast who dared to try and explore an immersive driving experience.
As Mercedes-Benz entry-level SUV models, the GLA/GLB truly meet the car-buying needs of the brand's younger consumer group. The GLA SUV exudes youthful vitality with its sharp and stylish exterior design, while the GLB SUV also pioneered the segment's "5+2" seat luxury SUV with its 2829 mm ultra-long wheelbase. The GLA & GLB come standard across the lineup with Intelligent Distance Assist, which can automatically adjust the distance from the vehicle ahead. With the help of cameras, radar, and navigation systems, it enables automatic following, acceleration, deceleration, and braking within the range of 0-160 km/h, freeing both feet, easing driving tension, and adding comfort and ease to travel.
The long-wheelbase GLC SUV has been upgraded and iterated in exterior, space, intelligence, and driving, perfectly blending the brand's luxury genes with contemporary lifestyles. The GLE/GLS SUVs are deeply favored by the market for their luxury design, intelligent technology, and driving performance, continuously demonstrating product strength derived from a century of luxury heritage.
Off-road, the more you go, the more you need to see it all. The exclusive off-road mode, first introduced in the long-wheelbase GLC SUV, not only displays off-road-related information such as incline and slope on the screen after activation, but the "real-time off-road road surface image" function can also instantly show the road surface beneath the vehicle, identifying gravel or depressions early, taking in all road conditions at a glance.
The entire lineup comes standard with the new-generation permanent all-wheel drive (4MATIC) system, making off-road fun available at all times; the adoption of a new four-link front suspension, combined with a multi-link independent rear suspension mounted on the subframe, makes both handling and ride comfort easy to master with strength. The M254 inline four-cylinder engine with abundant power, paired with second-generation ISG integrated starter-generator technology, allows the vehicle to respond quickly at startup and flexibly distribute power application during acceleration and deceleration, bringing a smoother and more silky driving experience.
The GLE/GLS are built on Mercedes-Benz's dedicated mid-to-large SUV platform (MHA). From design and manufacturing to the specific application of components, they reflect Mercedes-Benz's understanding of and pursuit for the product functions and customer needs of mid-to-large SUVs. The GLE/GLS models are equipped with the AIRMATIC air suspension system and can adjust according to driving conditions, vehicle speed, and load, achieving body rise and fall of about 9 cm, allowing smooth passage even on bumpy roads.
The GLC/GLE/GLS models not only possess good passability and capability to get out of trouble, but can also select off-road mode in the driving instrument cluster and head-up display, providing rich off-road data, including steering wheel angle, vehicle tilt angle, vehicle heading, engine speed, and more, bringing more intuitive display of road conditions and vehicle status.
In the wading section test, front camera image data is used and calculated by the vehicle system to provide camera vision within different speed ranges; the camera viewing angle automatically switches to provide the driver with road condition images, increasing the field of vision during off-roading. In the hill descent experience, the industry's highest standard is applied, with a speed range of 2-18 km/h. The steeper the slope, the lower the driving speed required. A lower speed ensures the foundation for the vehicle to challenge more difficult slopes. The minimum speed can be set to 2 km/h, achieving the highest standard in the same class. No matter how rugged the road ahead, it can be handled with ease, and no matter the terrain, it can be traversed as if on flat ground.
In addition, Mercedes-Benz models are equipped with the new-generation MBUX intelligent human-machine interaction system, further evolving the digital luxury experience. From the zero-layer interface, the voice assistant that reads your mind, wireless CarPlay, and rich in-car applications, it brings an intelligent, personalized, and convenient human-machine interaction experience, helping you start a smarter and more convenient travel life.
Mercedes-Benz is one of the earliest automakers to research autonomous driving technology. It has always been in a leading position in the industry in intelligent driving technology and has deep accumulation in intelligent driving technology.
Mercedes-Benz's intelligent driving always adheres to a people-oriented approach, providing customers with the most advanced intelligent driving experience under the premise of ensuring safety and reliability with a rigorous and responsible attitude. It fully considers customers' driving habits and feelings, bringing the comfort of intelligent driving to a higher level, truly achieving peace of mind, comfort, and convenience.
Off-road, the more you drive a Mercedes-Benz; the more you drive a Mercedes-Benz, the deeper the affection. The Mercedes-Benz SUV Tour is not only about the journey of the present, but also about the travels of the future. Mercedes-Benz will continue to guard the world within with reverent devotion to all things, exploring the endless frontiers of life. We welcome all car enthusiasts here to visit Mercedes-Benz authorized dealers in the Xi'an-Xianyang region and experience the luxury driving and riding experience of the Mercedes-Benz SUV family.
