G-CLASS

About the G-Class

The G-Class was never supposed to be a luxury vehicle. Mercedes-Benz built it in 1979 as a military workhorse — a box on wheels with three locking differentials and the aesthetic refinement of a shipping container. Then civilians started buying them, and Mercedes discovered that people would pay six figures for a vehicle that looked like it was designed with a ruler and a grudge. The original W460 served armies and aid organizations across every continent. The W463 added leather, wood, and a V8 that made the utilitarian body shell feel absurd in the best possible way. The AMG variants — G55, G63, G65 — strapped superchargers and twin-turbo V8s to a ladder frame designed in the 1970s and created the most excessive SUVs money could buy. The 2018 redesign kept the boxy silhouette but modernized everything underneath: independent front suspension, a new interior that rivaled the S-Class, and a twin-turbo V8 that could launch two and a half tonnes to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. The G-Class makes no rational sense. That is entirely the point. On Revnut, the community ranks every generation of Mercedes' most stubborn creation.