Behind the Wheel: Jonny Lieberman Jumps, Crawls, and Drifts the Mercedes G-Wagen

Jonny Lieberman puts the Mercedes G550’s off-road capabilities to the test over snow

Transcript

00:00 (rock music)

00:02 The G550 has a four liter twin turbo V8

00:24 that makes 416 horsepower and lets this brick

00:27 hit 60 miles an hour in 5.4 seconds.

00:31 The new G rides and drives worlds better

00:34 than the old version, but still has the chops

00:37 to conquer a hardcore off-road trail.

00:39 Hell, the bends even jumps well.

00:41 (laughing)

00:54 (laughing)

00:56 Easy.

01:04 All right, so even though traction control is off,

01:16 it's not really off.

01:17 (rock music)

01:20 You might mostly see these things in Beverly Hills,

01:31 but to paraphrase a friend, it's not the engineer's fault

01:34 that customers underutilize their over-engineered SUV.

01:37 (rock music)

01:40 (engine revving)

01:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]