GLS 580 Flexes Its Big V8 on the Autobahn

 AutoTopNL crew take advantage of the GLS 580 on an infinite part of the Autobahn.

It’s the dream of most of us: taking our favourite Mercedes over to Germany to let all of it go on the Autobahn. The high-speed paradise contains a number of sections the place the restrict is what you may deal with. Even the least probably Benzes can wring out all of their horsepower on these lengthy stretches, together with the GLS 580.

Just lately, AutoTopNL took their GLS 580 to the Autobahn decide how briskly the seven-passenger SUV can truly go. All they wanted was an infinite part, and the correct gear to report all of it.

Exterior a given limitless part of the Autobahn, our thriller driver walks over to the GLS 580. Because the infographic states, the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 makes 489 horses and 516 lb-ft of torque. All of that goes to the 4MATIC all-wheel drive system through a nine-speed auto, hitting 62 mph in 5.3 seconds. The highest velocity is 155 mph, quite a bit for the massive luxurious SUV. It’s actually a dream to do that on our highways. Let’s see what the motive force can do on house territory, although.

As soon as off the merge lane, the GLS 580 is off and working. The throaty V8 sounds superb as the motive force by no means lifts off the accelerator. With every shift of the auto, the revs rise and fall with each passing mile. In only a few seconds, the massive SUV’s already at 124 mph, simply few mph away from the highest. Can the motive force attain the summit earlier than having to decelerate on account of visitors?

Positive sufficient, upon passing a truck on the left, the motive force hits the highest velocity, after which some. As a substitute of 155 mph, the GLS 580 maxes out at 159 mph. Drafting the massive rig probably helped get these additional mph on the speedometer. But, there was extra nonetheless on faucet.

On the subsequent run, the GLS 580 blasted previous its printed prime velocity, rocketing down the Autobahn at 162 mph. That is one massive SUV that may hustle like a working again. And that’s earlier than stepping as much as the AMG GLS 63, a Saturn V of a machine. Good to know you may burn it down the freeway when the temper is true.

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Cameron Aubernon

Cameron Aubernon’s path to automotive journalism started within the early New ’10s. Again then, a pal of hers thought she was an unbiased vogue blogger.

Aubernon wasn’t, so she grew to become one, masking vogue in her personal approach for the subsequent few years.

From there, she’s written for: Louisville.com/Louisville Journal, Insider Louisville, The Voice-Tribune/The Voice, TOPS Louisville, Jeffersontown Journal, Dispatches Europe, The Fact About Vehicles, Automotive Information, Yahoo Autos, RideApart, Hagerty, and Avenue Vehicles.

Aubernon additionally served because the editor-in-chief of a short-lived on-line society publication in Louisville, Kentucky, interned on the metropolis’s NPR affiliate, WFPL-FM, and was the de facto publicist-in-residence for a communal artwork area close to the College of Louisville.

Except for her contributions to MBWorld, Aubernon will be discovered all by the IB Auto Group household, together with 6 Velocity On-line, LS1Tech, and Crew Velocity. She additionally has her personal unbiased automotive weblog, Aubernon Freeway.

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Aubernon is a member of the Worldwide Motor Press Affiliation, and the Washington Automotive Press Affiliation.