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We live in a time where crossovers are key
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So brands are introducing a ton of new name plates to make sure they have something for everyone
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This all-new Mercedes GL B is one of those models
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Filling the space between the swoopy GLA and GL c with something boxier and unique
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Now of course this review is only possible thanks to our friends at James Motor Company
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So make sure to visit their dealership or check out their website if you are looking for any new Mercedes
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So with that all said, let's see if this is the Mercedes crossover to get
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So starting things off here with the exterior styling any similarities
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It shares under the skin to other Mercedes models is certainly not reflected in the way. It looks
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Besides for the flagship G Wagon
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This is the only Benz that could be characterized as boxing which is seen particularly in the very upright grille design
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This is the standard front end
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but there is also an AMG line package offered which
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Substantially changes not just the grille, but also the lower bumper areas
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However, as far as the headlights their design stays the same no matter which model you choose as
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You can tell these are fully LED headlights and for $900 you can add adaptive abilities and auto dimming
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Standard models also have fog lights. But the AMG line does without them
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As far as the rest of the styling you can really tell just how squared off things are especially in the sight profile
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now dimensionally
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this is sized much closer to the GLC than the GLA since it's only
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1.7 inches shorter though something about the styling does make it look smaller than it actually is and
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Then around back it is pretty rugged to look at with black cladding a large rear window and
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LED tail lights that set low down on the body
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And then finally at the bottom you do have a chrome piece with two integrated exhaust outlets
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So all in all the styling of this GLB will not be everybody's cup of tea
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But that's exactly the point
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It is designed to appeal to a different person than the GLA, which is something I think will be successful at doing
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And moving on to the wheels there are quite a few options as you'd expect
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You can probably tell that these are the base
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18-inch alloys but there are also three 19's options and two 20-inch options available
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Heading up to the mirrors they are always heated but power folding and auto-dimming are part of the premium package
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Additionally blind spot monitoring is further available for five hundred and fifty dollars
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Now in regards to the other safety systems
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Mercedes does also throw an automatic forward emergency braking with pedestrian detection as standard equipment and
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Then choosing the drivers assistance package will give you active Lane Keeping Assist
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Evasive steering assist and active BSM as well as the advanced adaptive cruise control system called active distance Assist Distronic
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But anyways guys that's all there is to look at here on the outside
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So now let's go ahead and see how much space and luxury is inside the cabin before we take it out for a test drive
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So on the new GLB you do have mercedes latest key fobs
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however
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You are going to have to pay extra if you want the smart entry system as far as remote start that is include a standard
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For three years via the mercedes meaning application
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Now of course stick it inside the actual vehicle
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So if all you have to do is just grab the handle since there is a sensor
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And your ears will electrically fold out as well
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All right, so taking a look here inside this brand new GLB
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You're gonna notice there is some family influence from that new a-class and CLA that were introduced earlier in the year
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Now talking about your color and material options. You do have quite a few since this is a Mercedes after all
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So what you're going to start out with is the in VTech synthetic leather, that's what we have here. That's it
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and of course a standard
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You've got the option of black or macchiato colour schemes and then we go for the AMG line
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You can choose between never gray or black with dynamic inserts
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You also have the option of real leather
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That comes in some different color
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So you have black and Bahia Brown and then the AMG line has two-tone black and red or titanium grey
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And then finally in regards to your different trims
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You have the spiral look trim or carbon structure trim standard and then optional wood two different varieties
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Now turning over here to your dorm it is very nicely appointed especially since this is the base glv
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We have leatherette that goes all through here as well as across the upper part with the double stitching detail. So it looks pretty nice
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Here we have some of that standard wood trim or excuse me. Standard spiral look trim
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And then as far as our seats here, this is the 12 wave power adjusting seat with three person memory seating
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That is of course standard equipment
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You also notice we have seat heating that's available for a little under six hundred dollars and you can also add seat ventilation as well
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Where your windows are one touch automatic
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We come over here to the seat itself, like I said, this is the mb-tex synthetic leather
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Does have a nice look you also notice you have your lumbar support as well as a manual thigh extension?
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Now beyond the door trim as far as the rest of the material quality you have a pretty good selection
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Even though this is considered an entry level bins
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So across your upper dash here. This is all going to be finished and a soft touch plastic
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You've got some more of this nice-looking trim. You also have a piece of
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I guess imitation aluminum, but it looks very very realistic
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Altar here is piano black trim
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And then your heart touch plastics, there are some down through here. But like I said, they're reserved for all the lower areas
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So you don't really touch all that often?
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And everything does fit together very well
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Of course you do have standard push-button start
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And when you start up here you're going to notice
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Not one, but two displays now these two displays are part of your brand new MB UX system. Just like in the a-class
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So what you have standard is two seven inch displays, but if you go for the premium package, which our model does have
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Both of these displays get upgraded to ten point two five inches to make this very nice long looking seamless looking display
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Now focusing on the gauges here exclusively
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This is the latest version
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So what you do is just control with this little touch sensitive pad and all three of these sectors. Here are fully customizable
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So you can just swipe through and as you can see, you've got a ton of different things you can put into each section, basically
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Even swipe over here and change different display modes, like for instance now we are in a full-screen mode kind of futuristic looking
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So like I said in past Mercedes with this system, this is one of the very best
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Reconfigurable gauge clusters in the business because there's just so many different options
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Now you could also get a head-up display. But on this lower end model, we do not have it
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Now coming back to your steering really do have electric power assisted steering and all models will come with a leather wrap steering wheel
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As you can see you do have like I said, they touch sensitive buttons
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Up here for this side and then these are for the other display
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We also do have standard rain sensing wipers on every model
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And the steering wheel itself is manually tilt and telescoping heating is available as a two hundred and fifty dollars standalone option
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Now as far as the shifter just like every Mercedes model you've got the column-mounted shifter
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So for drive you just push down
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As you can see we do have paddle shifters. These are standard across the board
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And then for reverse you just push up the opposite direction
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Now in this specific model here we do have the regular back up camera with active trajectory
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however, if you go for the driving assistance package
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You'll have a 360-degree camera system as well as the ability to automatically park in both vertical and parallel parking spots
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and for park just press the P and
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There is an electronic parking brake right over here
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Now kind of related to that shifter is the amount of storage you have here in this vehicle because
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It's out of the way. So it frees up all this area in the center console
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So we'll start out just right underneath here as you can see. This is quite large
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It goes down a really decent amount of space there and it is felt lined
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There is one USB port inside of it as well
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Up in front of that. You kind of have some blank space if you have your cup holders right here
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And then you have a really large bin up here in the front. This is also very deep. It has nice
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rubberized material right there
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So things won't slide around and then you've got a 12-volt outlet as well as your second USB type-c port
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Wireless charging is also available as a standalone option
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All right, so heading back here this is your MB UX controller one of these several ways you can control the system
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What I'll focus on is not that but our audio controls right over here now
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On standard on the base model, which is what we have here is a pretty much an unspecified
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Sound system. They don't really go into the details about it. But you also have the ability to get a
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590 what twelve speaker BER mister sound system if you want to have a more powerful system
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But let's go ahead and sample this standard version
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So overall, I have to say sound quality of this system is very good certainly doesn't sound basic or anything like that
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All right, so now we'll go ahead and roll on up here to our dual zone automatic climate control system
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This of course is very simple. It looks pretty much identical to what we saw on the a-class
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So you just adjust your temperature with this toggle right there and it does appear if they're on the display
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Most of the controls are located physically here
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However, there are a few that you'll have to press the menu button for and that's where it will all come up here digitally
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So you can make adjustments up here if you prefer to do that for whatever reason
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Now this model here does not have the advanced ambient lighting with 64 colors, but if you did have that
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Of course, you'd having ambient lighting all around the cabin, but the coolest trick would be that these vents would be lighted as well
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So when you adjusted the temperature to be hotter, they would glow red and colder if they would glow blue
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All right, so now that brings us up here to our ten point two five inch main MBU X display
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So we'll go ahead and take a look through a few of the features
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now we'll be
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Super detailed about it in this video because we will have a dedicated tech help video
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Available if you want to learn more about the system and a link to that is going to be in the video description
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But basically this is just the all-new system
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You have brand new graphics everything about this system is brand new
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Like I mentioned a big thing about it is it's a touch display
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You can control on the steering wheel the touchpad or via some really really good AI voice commands
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what I mean by AI is you can just talk to it with phrases like your hey Mercedes that's the launch phrase and
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Then it will respond to different types of queries that you ask it in natural language
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Of course, you do have standard apple carplay and android auto both onboard
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On this particular model, we're missing navigation. That's part of a additional package the multimedia package
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But when you select the optional navigation system, you will get the augmented reality
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navigation
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Which as we've shown you and a few other Mercedes models
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basically
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it just shows you a live camera feed of what you're looking at out in the street and then overlays the
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Instructions right on to it different arrows and street numbers and things like that very very neat. Very handy system
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Now coming on up here
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We do have the optional auto dimming mirror you could do also have optional garage door openers, which we do not have
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And then looking up here you'll actually notice we are missing a moonroof
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There is no standard sized moonroof offered so you go straight to a panoramic option available for $1,500
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But anyways guys that is going to conclude all of the front areas here in this all-new GLB
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So now go ahead and hand it off to Mason who will check out the back seats
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So checking out the new GL B's rear door trim surprisingly you are going to have materials that do follow through from the front
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So all this area is leather padded and even the upper portion is also a soft touch leather route with stitching going through
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Down below that you have your door handle as well as a large amount of drawer storage. I
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Do want to point out before I get in that the seats can slide back and forth
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Now here in the center area even though this is a cheaper mercedes-benz product they don't really skimp on the features
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So all GL B's will come with a rear vents as standard equipment
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Down below that you have this little storage compartment and further below that you will find these pop-out outlets
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So you have a 115 volt household stock outlet back here as well as two USB type C's
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And here in the center area
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You have any their traditional armrest with pop-out cupholders in the end
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And up top, of course you do have an assist crypt as well as a cookbook
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Now as far as the rear legroom is concerned in this new GLB
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This is one of the areas that I'm actually very impressed with it actually comes in larger than the Mercedes
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GLC at 38 inches of rear legroom and 39 inches of rear headroom
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Which is quite a bit larger than its main rivals like the Audi q3
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It's actually about 2 inches larger than that
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And as you can see behind Dru sitting position I have about I would say
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10 inches of rear legroom and my feet definitely don't have any issues sliding up under the seat. So I'm definitely very comfortable back here
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Now one of the things that I that is very unique about this car is that you can actually get a third row option
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As you can tell this particular model does not have that third row option
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However, if you do get that, I would expect the third row to have a pretty small amount of space. It's rated at 29 inches
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And also it's worth noting that if you get that third row, the second row is reduced by two inches as well
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Now heading around to the tailgate a power one is standard across all GL B's
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And it's also hands-free if you opt for the premium package
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So all you have to do is wait for it under the bumper to open it up
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And once inside the gops trunk you are going to find a surprisingly good amount of space
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you're going to find 24 cubic feet of space behind the second row seats and that expands to
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57 cubic feet if you fold the segment row now how that compares to other mercedes-benz models
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That's right in line with the GLC and quite a bit above its main rivals once again
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however, if you opt for the third row option
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It is worth noting that you're gonna have five cubic feet of space
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If behind that third row, if you go for that option and down below we do have a good carpeted floor board
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As you can see it pops up and you do have quite a bit of storage up under here
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I don't know how much of this will be usable because it doesn't look like there's a floor
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But it does have quite a bit of smoke
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And off to the side you do have a little cup cubby over here as well as a cargo cover
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and some lighting
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Now looking at the passenger seat you do have your lumbar support right here and you do also have your standard
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12 Y power adjusting seats right here as you can see
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Memory seats are also thrown in standard across the board as well
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And in front of the passenger you have this nice little area right here
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Down below that a really quite large a glove box. I'm very impressed
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It goes back quite deep ways and it is also felt lined as well as illuminated
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And up top we do have a Sun Visor with LED illumination a mirror
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And it does also detach. However, it does not have an extension
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But anyway guys that sums up all of the rear stuff about the new glv
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So now let's go ahead and take it out in the road and see how it performs there
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Now before we really get started here I just want to go ahead and apologize we're having some technical
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Difficulties today, so we're down to only one GoPro. And as you guys know from earlier in the video, we don't have a moonroof
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So that's why you could just kind of looking at the angle directly on us. We normally don't
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Like to do that really we want to keep it facing out the windshield, but that's not an option today who our faces
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Yeah, you get to get to look at our face today
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unfortunately
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Alright so that was our basically first acceleration here and the 2020 glb
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Idea why I keep getting focused I never get any phone calls. I just keep getting repeated over and over phone calls from different numbers
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anyway
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As I'm trying to say, this is just everything's going bad today
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Acceleration is definitely pretty good. It really has a more scoot than I thought it was going to
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This engine is shared with the CLA, it's actually a different version than our