Mercedes GL450 or Yukon Denali?
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I think you mean a twin-turbo V8. My former boss had the diesel version and loved it. They have 2 Cayenne diesel's and love those even more.
I'm no help. Sorry!
GalaxyBlackEsky
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The GL is nice BUUUT you have to look at maintenance. Mercedes are very very expensive up keeping. But new you get the warranty. But to me the new Denali interior and exterior look a lot better.
My wife initially liked the Infiniti. (And our other cars are infinitis). I vetoed it pretty much exclusively based on looks. I just think it's going to look very dated in a few years. The interior seems to be a generation behind in styling. Big swoopy curves and overwrought in general. I wanted to like it.
Dealer by me offers oil changes for life for $600.00 at the time of purchase, if looking at a new MB I would ask if they offer something like this. Only reason I got rid of my old C230 was the maintenance charges.
felixgun
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You're asking on a GM forum so I can guess what other members are gonna say lol. Overall you will spend less on the denali on price and maintenance, plus it looks better too 
Goodinblack
I Like Tacos
Its easy to buy and Mercedes. Tough to keep it.
Almost like having a hot model. You better be ready to entertain her..... in dining, in stores, and in bed.
Oh and Nissans are ugly imo
Almost like having a hot model. You better be ready to entertain her..... in dining, in stores, and in bed.
Oh and Nissans are ugly imo
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We have a 2014 GL350, that's the diesel version and I'm still waiting for our Yukon XL. We'll have both. The Yukon is much larger and my wife doesn't want to drive it daily, but we use it for lots of people or moving lots of stuff.
I can say that if I didn't need the space the Yukon offers on a reasonably frequent basis, and if I had to choose one or the other, the MB is by far the more premium vehicle.
The quality of the ride, the controls, the tactile feedback is leagues better than the GM product. The price difference to me seems more like healthy markup for GM than on par engineering and materials. I'm not knocking the Yukon. It's an amazing truck and serves it's purpose but to me, the GL is just much better. Also, my experience with the new Yukon consists of two lengthy test drives and crawling all over it. I sold my 2004 Denali XL a few weeks ago.
My wife came from a 11 GL (the previous generation) and that was nice also, but the new one is much better.
One nice feature it offers is the 360 camera which makes parking such a large vehicle a pleasure. I was shocked the Yukon, even in Denali trim didn't offer this (yet). Seems like a big lapse to me.
We leased this and the prior MB and I got pretty good deals for both. Long term, maintenance is not a huge concern. Prepare for brake pads and rotors at 20-30k miles and big but not crazy service bill every 10k or so miles. We have had no quality issues with either in the time we have had them that I can recall.
I can say that if I didn't need the space the Yukon offers on a reasonably frequent basis, and if I had to choose one or the other, the MB is by far the more premium vehicle.
The quality of the ride, the controls, the tactile feedback is leagues better than the GM product. The price difference to me seems more like healthy markup for GM than on par engineering and materials. I'm not knocking the Yukon. It's an amazing truck and serves it's purpose but to me, the GL is just much better. Also, my experience with the new Yukon consists of two lengthy test drives and crawling all over it. I sold my 2004 Denali XL a few weeks ago.
My wife came from a 11 GL (the previous generation) and that was nice also, but the new one is much better.
One nice feature it offers is the 360 camera which makes parking such a large vehicle a pleasure. I was shocked the Yukon, even in Denali trim didn't offer this (yet). Seems like a big lapse to me.
We leased this and the prior MB and I got pretty good deals for both. Long term, maintenance is not a huge concern. Prepare for brake pads and rotors at 20-30k miles and big but not crazy service bill every 10k or so miles. We have had no quality issues with either in the time we have had them that I can recall.
We looked at a GL 550 to replace my mom's escalade a few months back. Although the 550 looks a lot better than the 450 since it has the AMG body kit, but overall the interior and exterior still felt dated to me.
Gzes
the drifting 2dr
I wouldn't touch a Benz. Maintence costs are too high. Around here there's also only 1 German auto maintenance place. I don't touch them
RioRedCobra
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We looked at the GL and the main factors that turned us away were:
1) no captains chairs
2) higher maintenance costs
3) higher overall price when optioned out
1) no captains chairs
2) higher maintenance costs
3) higher overall price when optioned out
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They are also very old fashioned inside compared to the 15 TYEs.
We are comtemplating our next one, have driven the GL in the 350,450 and 550 versions. I think we can get the 350 for low 70's without too much problem, and the Yukon XL denali we could not get for 70K, we offered that exact figure a week ago and they basicaly told us no way. List was 77 with the one on the floor.
Our 2001 yukon has cost 2-3 times more to keep running and my wife's 2002 ML500. Her ML has 198000 miles and drives like the day we bought it. I have erplaced the radio about 3 years ago and that is the only repair in the last 88K miles. At about 110K or so we did replace some motor mounts and a belt but that I think are all wear items. I cannot say they cost more to maintain over the long haul.
We just dont think the GL will handle all the needs we have for hauling so planing on some combination of a Yukon XL and a smaller X5 or ML.
GL outsold Escalade and Navigator combined last year so it is a viable option. I personally did not like the lack of steering feel and road feel, but the yukon doesnt have much more. I liked the 550 better but it was in the 90's and the mileage was 12-13. Not going there. The 450 was just boring to me. One of the car magazine has a great article this month on the GL. In their short test period they logged 40K miles and everyone wanted to road trip it, but they were not enamored with the driving experience. They summed it up well though by saying you cant teach a buffalo to dance (their test model was brown)
Our 2001 yukon has cost 2-3 times more to keep running and my wife's 2002 ML500. Her ML has 198000 miles and drives like the day we bought it. I have erplaced the radio about 3 years ago and that is the only repair in the last 88K miles. At about 110K or so we did replace some motor mounts and a belt but that I think are all wear items. I cannot say they cost more to maintain over the long haul.
We just dont think the GL will handle all the needs we have for hauling so planing on some combination of a Yukon XL and a smaller X5 or ML.
GL outsold Escalade and Navigator combined last year so it is a viable option. I personally did not like the lack of steering feel and road feel, but the yukon doesnt have much more. I liked the 550 better but it was in the 90's and the mileage was 12-13. Not going there. The 450 was just boring to me. One of the car magazine has a great article this month on the GL. In their short test period they logged 40K miles and everyone wanted to road trip it, but they were not enamored with the driving experience. They summed it up well though by saying you cant teach a buffalo to dance (their test model was brown)
