►Follow us on Instagram @autogefuehl and @thomas.letsgo ►Subscribe here: ru-vid.com ►Compare the BMW X3: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XcP3W1XsZGY.html ►Compare the Audi Q5: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xXg0fmU63B4.html 00:00 The most important Mercedes? 00:16 GLC AMG-Line in Spectral Blue 00:47 Wheels and aerodynamics 01:12 Length and suspension 02:21 Rear-axle steering 03:14 Rear design and lamps 04:19 GLC AMG-Line in Diamond White 04:48 GLC AMG-Line in Graphite Grey 05:08 Interior: Key fob and doors 05:30 Materials and build quality 06:38 Seats in bright Artico/MBTex leatherette 07:43 Panoramic roof 08:35 Cockpit overview and design 09:26 Digital instruments 10:12 MBUX infotainment system 11:31 Transparent bonnet feature 12:22 Voice input 12:49 Sound system and Head-up-Display (HUD) 13:00 Ambient lighting 13:29 Rear seating 11:49 Boot / Trunk 15:46 Engines: Petrol, Diesel, PHEV 16:40 Driving GLC 300 with acceleration 17:24 Driving modes and feeling 21:13 User interface while driving 22:36 Difference to GLA, GLB, GLE 23:52 Motorway driving with insulation 25:06 Assistance systems 26:03 Cockpit layout while driving 27:49 Fuel economy / consumption #Mercedes #MercedesGLC Transparency note: Autogefühl videos are independent and free from editorial influence on opinion and rating. But since manufacturers enable us to do the reviews in the first place, for legal reasons this video is marked as _advertisement_.
Love you doing honest reviews. German reviewer being honest and not holding back the criticism when needed. It's a rare sight these days when in auto reviews especially when ones are reviewing car manufacturers from home country. Keep up the good work. Car looks great, too bad for the recent price jump globally concerning all manufacturers.
Just bought this exact GLC 300 model in Starling Blue with the AMG package and Night package. I love the new improved technology and ride! Great video!
I think the previous GLC pre-facelift version is still the best one design-wise. It looks more harmonious and bulky and doesn't have this frowning angry face that mercedes is stamping everywhere from the GTC. This one looks like an angry lifted c-class station wagon. The new wheels somehow look like cheap aftermarket ones. Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, we'll see. Thank you Thomas for another great review!
The Avantgarde exterior package offers more soundproofing. I tried both Amg and Avantgarde and I chose the one that is more quiet. Just mentioning this for those who want to buy the car. For long trips the Avantgarde pack offers more soundproofing in the engine compartment. The gasoline engine is with direct injection and sound more like a diesel...
Nice steps forward with some interior elements, and features like see-through view, boot size etc - but then steps back - capacitive touch buttons everywhere, "piano black" plastic that gets scratched horribly if you even put a finger on it, less space for legs...
We found the previous model to be exceptional. This model is hard to beat and is one of the best choices out there. If you cannot buy one then lease it.
I owned a 2021 GLC and within 4 months the engine played up. The interior was horrible and just looks flashy, had to get rid of it They have dropped their standards so much
@@cccccccccccccccc5858 thats funny you say that because thats the exact car i advised him ahah but he's a bit of a badge sob so said he will check out the LCI 3 series or the latest S4 And i live in the UK
Amazing to hear that there'll be a 6 cylinder diesel. It'll be the best engine for this car. Imagine that. Wow. I'll buy it just for the 6 cylinder engine.
I love the car but the fake exhaust are a deal breaker for me. Wouldn't spend that much money on a car with fake exhaust, regardless of its other great feature, the fake are a deal breaker
hehe cool =) There are a lot of nice Audi blue colors, the ones you name, also Ara Blue, Turbo Blue... it also depends on the model and the year they sometimes also just renamed these or the tones are just a little different
The touch screen layout and buttons look outdated like they borrowed the operating system from a 2012 Tesla Model S that’s never received an OTA update
Thomas this location for filming outshines this otherwise, boring SUV. Mercedes SUV's do nothing for the excitement of owning a vehicle. I'd prefer a C Class convertible. Good review however and once again, loved this Sound of Music location!
I like the decision to adopt digital displays but the execution in design and cohesion is lacking. It looke sorta bolted on, both displays. For other cars, they can get away with it. For a MB, you expect a work of art in style and technology and they forgot about the style aspect. Technology should be integrated, as if it becomes part of the car. Here, it looks bolted on, as if you can pop the displays right off and tack on another in its place.
I dont support the use of animal skin but old premium cars interiors feel way better put together. For example a 1990's Jaguar has way better interior materials than this car, a special feel of solidity. Nowadays they just put large screens everywhere and corny interior lightning. To me luxury is not about that but I guess people who don't have a clue about cars or want to impress their friends fall for these traps while car makers are constantly increasing their profits. Using the same type of screen for every model of the same make and changing a few software settings is way cheaper than developing differently shaped physical buttons for each model.
Too bad the new GLC got smaller on the inside despite getting longer in length. But the extra 6 cm got swallowed by the overhangs ( 4,4 cm ) and the extra 1,5 cm in wheelbase didn't make it into the interior, since they slightly pushed back the rear backrest to get more trunk space. Now you have slightly less legroom in the front and rear and also less headroom in the front. Also the rear bench is a bit shorter than in the predecessor. The only things that have marginal grown are the rear height ( +1mm ) and the shoulder room ( + 2mm ). So if the previous model was too small for you it still is.
Went to Mercedes, drove this car and found it boring and bad, the interior is small compared to the competitors, cheap plastic everywhere and the moment you want to add anything, the price goes to the roof cause...packs ! Avoid at all costs, there's much better than this car for the same and even less money.
I am a Mercedes driver but I need to say that I get the feeling the brand is starting to save up money in the new models. It’s nice to have a great ambient lighting but more important show for me is the quality for example of the buttons or the lack of a great seating position which was always a huge advantage of the old models.
I fully agree. Some of the materials in the interior of the new C class, on the doors for example, feel way cheaper than on the previous C class. The ambient lighting is a nice touch, but I guess this was introduced primarily to satisfy Chinese market.
@@TheMarko117 all Mercedes are now been designed to look good in photos first of all. Even the S class feels cheap in some high touch areas….which is just unheard of
I honestly don’t know what all the rage over ambient lighting is these days. I quite literally couldn’t care less about it, and if anything it’s very distracting to me. Give me solid wood trim, soft surfaces, heavy and solid feeling buttons with tactile and sound feedback, minimize all the screens and lights for the love of God. I’m really unhappy where the ‘luxury’ brands are going.
The same thing is happening to Lexus, the new NX has a lot more tech, but the quality of the materials is noticeably worse than in the previous gen; the overall sense of luxury in the new models is significantly diminished. I haven’t seen the new RX in person yet, only in videos and photos, and it seems it’s following the footsteps of the NX. Luxury no longer feels like luxury, it’s basically just high tech at this point.
My wife brought the new 2022 mercedes c 200 and within 2 months the engine was leaking oil so badly that the engine go bust and is still in the mercedes workshop and still waiting over 2 months for the car to get fixed,reliability is a joke,I've never seen a new car break so quick.
I’m certain you have be given an equivalent car to drive while your’s is in the shop. I’d be unhappy, too, but the car will be fixed I’m sure. Good luck!
Hey Thomas, how come you didn't mention the massive downgrade of the materials in the interior? Everything above the middle dashboard looks fine and elegant but everything beneath it is now completely in hard pack materials ! Where the predecessor had soft touch materials even down on the doors, the middle console and the glove compartment, it is now all hard plastics.
I wonder what is up with Mercedes and the door closing sound these days. It is like the sound engineers that used to engineer all the sounds are gone. I also drove a GLB 220d as a loan car for a week while my W212 E Class was in for a repair and the rear doors of the GLB didn't align properly with the front doors and really had to be slammed. And it can't be for good insulation because there was still plenty wind noise. Also it is unacceptable that this GLC has hard plastic from half way down the doors and dashboard. The quality is similar to that from those Chinese SUVs from Chery and Haval these days.
Mercedes and VW really need to give us real buttons instead of these new touch/capacitive "buttons"! The touch "fake buttons" are less precise, more distracting, and dangerous to use while driving.
Fake exhaust! Watching the door close, or not close is an issue. Air vents look silly. Loss of legroom? How much for all this iPad on wheels? It seems that they have high school kids designing vehicles today. Sorry, but that dashboard looks hideous, I’ll keep my older Mercedes’ .
Thomas, thanks for your reviews, they are good as always. But as a small remark, often when you speak about build quality, in fact you are referring to materials and not the build quality. If you take a look at the screenshot at 13:40, your finger points directly to a very unusually huge gap at a very unusual place, which to me does not seem to be an example of good build quality :) I wonder if you were a bit more critical and showed more of these, Mercedes nowadays does seem to be going backwards in terms of build quality (not materials). But I guess being at the official presentation does somewhat restrict you from what you can say and really think, i.e. from being brutally honest about the product you are rewieving..
Great review, Thomas, love the honest approach as always. You mention newer models are getting sportier, so I wonder - is it cheaper to produce a “sportier” ride/feeling manufacturing and materials wise? Could that be the reason Mercs are getting less comfortable/refined? Thanks.
Thank you for review. Capacitive buttons though kill usability. Infotainment in general seems unnecessary complex and not very ergonomic. Kills the whole thing.
20:53 every time Police: minding it's own business Me: oh, I go to jail today most likely for nothing Same when you came to shop, did not buy anything and just passing by to exit
After your video I went to MB dealer. I made up my mind and started to think about a possible configuration. I was very disappointed when I found out that heated seats can be only black and that adding the external doorstep means the dashboard elements can't be wooden but must be black. These and many other unusual conditions made me hate this brand. I've never been fond of German cars but there you go. I wasted a few hours. Everything seems so procedural and set in stone in German cars, no flexibility and very poor marketing. Your video about ID. Buzz upset me even further - VW marketing is inexistent, they don't seem to listen to customers. I guess, I need to stick to Swedish cars or go back to Japanese and Korean brands.
Mercedes U.K. are ruining the brand over here. We don’t get the 4matic evs. We don’t the airmatic on the new suvs. Mercedes U.K. have decided that all the U.K. market gets is the lowest spec or the highest amg spec. Nothing in between, which is usually where the best version of the car sits. The hilarious thing is, the U.K. press are getting GLC test cars with airmatic for their reviews which we can’t buy.
I hope some day Mercedes will have a designer who will decide that air vents don’t need to be one of the most prominent parts in the interior but need to be rather subtle designed.
Why no mentioning about console quality ? When you touch or push those plastics it creates lots of crackling sounds. Pls mention more on -cons of the German cars
Love all Thomas video. Very detail info. Got a question for you. Given same price used Glc 220d/250d 2017 amg line 60k mileage vs CX5 2.2d/2.5 g GT 2020 25k miles. Which one will Thomas choose? Thank you.
Thanks for the scam warning. You’re the only channel to warn people. I actually fell for that on a different channel because they use the same badge and a very similar username. Luckily it didn’t get very far and I thought that the RU-vidr wanted to discuss a question I was asking which turned into them saying I had won a crappy old 5 series bmw!
appreciated! I also made a shout out to all the social media channels to warn people and I did hours and hours of handwork deleting scam messages because the spam protectors are sometimes not that good...
A luxury SUV with characteristics of both a coupe and an SUV is the Mercedes-Benz GLC 300. It has a variety of engine options, including diesel and gasoline engines, as well as the choice of a hybrid powertrain. The car's interior is roomy and equipped with high-end materials and cutting-edge technology, including the MBUX infotainment system, cutting-edge driver assistance systems, and cutting-edge safety measures. There are several trims of the GLC 300, each with a different level of luxury and amenities.
You could liquidate it by saying it has the same interior of C class :D I own one, If I don't know it's a GLC, I would think you're presenting a C CLass inside.
The interior looks tacky. But they added a few LEDs in the air vents, great... And the sound from that 4 cylinder engine at high revs is awful. But I guess it's functional.
I am not a fan of the current C-class exterior design. Boring and anonymous in my opinion. The interior looks cool, but the built quality doesn't match.
The Dash with the cheap looking after though looks absolute rubbish! Always prefer the instruments to be intergrated into the design not a stuck on crap. Look near the steering wheel horrible!
Mercedes have a lot of good things going for them, but they really do not seem to like listening to the criticisms either. Many small things, like lack of tactile knobs, and insisting on pretend exhaust pipes... If they actually took these things in board they would have a car that truly reflects the attention Mercedes puts into their vehicles.
