Mercedes Benz r350 Review

Mercedes-Benz has been delivering new models by the litter lately. For 2005, we counted nine new Mercedes variants, ranging from the entry-level C-class for thousandaires to the $456, 000 SLR for billionaires. All of them were of determinate gender-sedan, wagon, SUV, and so forth. But now the German automaker has given birth to a mutant that's hard to categorize-the 2006 R-class is neither sedan, wagon, SUV, nor van, although it has bits and pieces of each.

The five-door, six-passenger R-class might be considered a crossover, but that definition fails because it applies to SUV-ish vehicles that emanate from passenger-car platforms. The R doesn't. It's based on a much-modified version of the latest Mercedes M-class SUV's unibody platform. Although it's built at the same state-of-the-art factory in Alabama as the M, the R shares little with its plantmate. The driveline is pretty much the same, but in its major dimensions there's no similarity: The R's 126.6-inch wheelbase is 11.8 inches longer; overall, the 203.0-inch-long R tops the M by 14.8 inches, and it's 6.3 inches lower and 2.3 wider.

Mercedes is tagging the R as a "sports tourer, " a catchy but mostly vague marketing phrase that doesn't resolve the R's identity crisis. But ambiguity aside, the R is nothing if not big. It's about four inches longer than a Cadillac Escalade or Chrysler Pacifica, with which the R can be said to share some conceptual traits. And at a height of 65.2 inches, it is nine inches lower than the former and 1.3 inches closer to the ground than the latter. It weighs about 4800 pounds in V-6-powered R350 form and 4900 in the R500 V-8 version.

All this mass is wrapped in sheetmetal that doesn't look much like anything else on the road. The sharply angled hood flows from a leading edge that wouldn't appear out of place on a Mercedes sports car. The arc of the roofline is reminiscent of the company's provocative CLS500 but for the hatch-hinging kickup at the rear. And the sculpted character line that runs from the front-wheel openings to the tail end is also a bit CLS-ish. These wedgy-roundy elements give the R an eye-catching look in an eccentric way, as if George Barris had chopped and sectioned a minivan.

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