The vehicles handles and drives well for an SUV. It is much more truck like than a Lexus RX and I would take it over the lexus any day. Negatives on the vehicle are bad fuel economy in city and on highway. The vehicle was just reasonable in terms of reliability. We had the seat heaters burn a hole through the driver's seat, although the seat and other damage was taken care of by Mercedes. The vehicle has very poor after sale value.

I bought this car with only 24,000 kms and it has been a joy to own and drive over the last 4 yrs. Although the repairs on the car are typical Mercedes expensive, a 20,000 km service is not too bad. I had minimal problems with the car in spite of driving it for 50,000 per yr. The ride quality is amazing and handling is superb. For a V8 with AWD, I got avg fuel consumption of 11.2 litres / 100kms with mostly hwy driving.