The first official imagery of the upcoming Mercedes-Benz GLB has been revealed. Well, parts of it, anyway. The parts covered in ice and snow expertly masking the design details? Winter testing. The parts covered in screen and sumptuous tan leather? That’ll be the new cabin.
It marks a bit of a departure from the old GLB, and very much sits within NewMerc’s wheelhouse of filling everything with as much screen real estate as possible. Note: The car shown here gets the optional full-length ‘floating’ Hyperscreen.
Merc reckons this reduces the interior design philosophy to “the essentials and conveys a state-of-the-art, elegant ambience.” We say: Don’t smear it with your oily fingers.
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There’s some physical switchgear, a pair of circular vents at either end of the dash, and a standard-fit panoramic roof. You can change the transparency of said roof from clear to ‘milky’ (optionally), though we note the conspicuous absence of a ‘chocolatey’ version. You can even illuminate it with the glare of a thousand Mercedes stars. Or at least a fair few of them.
Elsewhere, we know the new GLB will be available as a five- or seven-seater, with “noticeably more headroom” than was previously offered. Indeed, the third row is also apparently easier to get into, which is nice. As is the rather delightful tan leather interior shown here.
There’s plenty of digital help onboard, including a virtual assistant with “various emotionally responsive avatars” powered by AI—nope, you’re terrified—along with a phalanx of radars and sensors to detect everything from the car in front to the dilation of your pupils. Probably.
You’ll see the first official imagery of the production-ready, non-snowy Mercedes-Benz GLB on December 8.
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NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
