ACTIVE BODIES

The Mercedes-Benz GLE has been given a complete makeover, and can now jiggle to a beat as well. We’ve got the GLE 300d and GLE 400d together to bust a few moves

- AATISH MISHRA

HIP HOP EDITION. THAT IS THE SUFFIX Mercedes-Benz India has added to the GLE 400d’s name to remind you that it is packing active suspension that can make it ‘dance’. We aren’t in the 90s any more! They may as well have called it the Bounce Edition. Or the Jump Edition. Or if our in-house gym-freak Abhishek had his way, the Workout Edition. He even challenged it to a push-up competition — there’s a video on YouTube, go check it out. Silly names aside, the GLE 400d’s active suspension is a wonderful bit of engineering. Sure, this feature that allows it to bounce will more likely be used to spam Instagram than actually get the GLE out of sticky situations, but the rest of what it can do is really amazing. But before we talk about trick suspension, let’s dial things back. The GLE has finally got a generation change and there’s just so much to talk about!

The New Generation