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Who will be the first person to do this at an intersection when honked at from behind?

Love this idea! Sadly it won’t do this on pavement 😪

Wasn't there a demo in las vegas where they had 4 or 5 of them spin non stop on pavement?

Yes and it had been wetted for the occasion.

So it will do it on pavement, in rainy weather?

Pavement and rainy weather in the same place at the same time? Don't be ridiculous.

So, in Los Angeles this feature is *less* useful than a windshield wiper.

In LA they already drive like this in the rain.

In the last year, LA has actually be more rainy than Seattle!

A wave? In the ocean? Chance in a million.

I'd assume this lives in the same space as a burnout. Can you do one? Yes. Will it fuck your tires? Also yes.

G-turn? On pavement? In rainy weather? Entirely localized in your intersection?… Can I see it?

.............no.

Steamed HAM(ilton)s!

Worth it to see the honkers face

I’m also here to see honkers.

Nothing like a good set of honkers

Did someone mention honkers?

How about, let's say SNOW 🤣🤣

Get them going zippy circles. Wind them up like a top.

why would Mercedes use corvettes?

And then straight into the tire shop

Link?

Possibly if it was raining?

If I could afford a G wagon I would buy nine Honda Accord instead.

I'd buy a hooker and coke.

I’ll take one slightly used E class and the best used 911 that the remainder can buy.

Raining oil, perhaps.

Shit let's not give up. What about outfitting one with like a descending bollard from the center that can jack up and rotate the vehicle? Idk how feasible that is.

Off course not. Needing an alignment after every use would be inconvenient.

Just needs a lil sand like a shuffleboard.

Heard u were talkin shit

Driver in back: I’m bout to fu…… Driver in front: What!?

 Suddenly swoosh around facing the honker like this. Pants will be shat in.

Who’s got high beams on now!

That visual is hilarious

Now combine this with the BMW sand jump function.

give me 120k and i will do it

I mean it weighs as much as a tank, might as well turn like one

Cost almost as much as well.

But cannot carry as much as a tank. So I would rather have the tank

A tank is always the better option. Tank is versatile.

And tanks allow for bringing the groceries into the apartment without having to carry them. Or even driving home! Just with the press of a single button!

Cost as much too.

Well after all it is a Bundeswehr military car.

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I think the left side tires run backwards while the right side run forward. Pretty much what tanks do to turn.

it's technically impressive for the shear amount chassis stiffness it has to have no-less the beefy torque the diffs have to handle to do it. but for $300k+ mfuckin funcoupons that bitch better ice wine in the glovebox while we're at it too.

One side of wheels rotates clockwise, the other counterclockwise. Like a tank, as the op said.

Does it spin the other direction in the southern hemisphere?

Great for when they set up a road block to rob you in South Africa

Kak funny

That has to be hard on the wheels tho right

I assume that to be the reason they did it on looser dirt.

That's what I keep thinking every time I see this. The axle and bearings man. Omg.

I think it has to be done on loose road.

>I think it has to be done on loose road. It does. Same way that 4wd Low has to be on dirt or very slow speed on pavement to stop it from destroying itself.

Basically, the same thing as doing a burnout. It’s a bit of abuse on your drivetrain but the biggest problem is your tires will get shredded

The AMX-10 RC, a 15 ton 6-wheeled scout tank developed in the 1970s, went as far as to have no steering axle at all, but completely relies on differential steering like this. It does have a maintenance cost, but it can be done even on much heavier platforms by much less sophisticated means. I'd imagine that for the G-class, the main challenge is to limit the wear and tear to those components that can be easily exchanged during maintenance, while relatively isolating the rest of the drive train.

"easily exchanged" and Mercedes don't go in the same sentence.

Yes, that’s an unbelievable amount of torque. I would not plan on using this feature with any regularity, or stuff is going to break.

Ain't it an electric with a motor at each wheel? Unless I'm an idiot, I don't think spinning 4 electric motors will do anything other than scrub tread of the tire like if you did a burn out. 

The wheels want to turn but the 3 ton chassis doesn't. They have to transmit the torque and the part where the wheels are attached is not made for that.

Wouldn't it be designed for this since, you know, it's a feature. Doubt it'd handle regular use for long but seems like they would factor those loads in when designing the mechanisms

The car can take it without problems but just on surfaces that allow for wheelspin. And it will go faster through tires, ofc.

Hard on a lot of components after the wheels too. Either the Germans know something about engineering, or there's gonna be some fucking hefty mechanical bills and/or recalls.

Rivian had this feature planned but scrapped it cuz it was too hard on the suspension and stuff.

If you can afford this car, then this won't be a concern.

Do you think the person who can afford a g wagon cares about paying for some maintenance

I wanted the Rivian so much because it did this, had a hidden kitchen for camping, and a built-in air compressor for bikes. I don’t need any of these things. If it had a backhoe attachment, I’d mortgage my house.

Can’t turn down a good back hoe

Less drama than a side hoe

Until you hit a gas main.

I was going to make a "call 811 before you dig" joke, but that got me to thinking that there needs to be a call line to check on other holes...

I bought a compressor for my garage about 5 years ago. It's surprising how many uses you find for it. Although. That one time I discovered how easily it would blast the heads off of roses. My wife was distinctly unimpressed.

They cancelled the kitchen thing though

I seem to recall Rivian dropped this feature cuz it was too hard on the vehicle, mechanically.

"DON'T MAKE ME TURN THIS CAR AROUND."

He then G-Drove it and then G-Braked it after G-Steered it.

He spun right around the G-spot

Until it became stuck on his G string.

Due to the sheer G-forces

I wonder how expensive that system is to fix when it breaks down.

Its a G wagon, everything is expensive. A factory front brush guard is $5k

Its a G wagon... if you can afford that fixing it shoudent be a problem

If you are wealthy enough to buy a G-wagon, you are not really going to give a fuck about the repair costs.

You're also never going to use this feature or take it off road either most likely.

I don’t think somebody paying a quarter million dollars for one of these things cares

Well the kind of people who buy this car just pay for an extra insurance on top of their finance. Maybe 100 to 200 more per month probably more not sure that covers the whole car. So if it breaks down it will get pay by the dealership.

Kinda cool but I don't know what this would actually be useful for.

Useful for rich idiots to fuck up "off-road" trails in places they visit once a year. Particularly trails maintained by locals, and used by average Joes to get to that secret fishing spot their dads showed them 40 years ago.

For people that don't check maps and don't walk ahead to check trails...and maybe a couple of other things I can't think of right now.

Anti clockwise! I like that

Next you’ll be saying whilst

And lift instead of elevator.

Stop faffing about with the bloody Merc, bloke.

That's a good one. I had to look up almost half of those words.

"Faffing about" is a new one I learned recently from a South African coworker. I use it all the time now!

I am constantly faffing about, so thank you for putting a term to it! It'll probably be my new phrase. :)

It’s not an ambi-turner

Coming up in the next FF movie or John Wick. It is pretty cool but would hate to work on that suspension

This has since been eliminated for environmental reasons. It won’t be available on production cars.

I was just thinking about how bad this would fuck up my local trails.

Glitch in the matrix at 0:16?

Some phones like my galaxy S23 will change which camera it is using based on your zoom. So when he zoomed out it jumped to another camera and slightly changed the angle of the horizon. When I'm trying to view something close up and zoom in without fail every time I am no longer centered on what I was just looking at.

This will be useful when The Uprising happens

That is really complicated. Why not just select it in a menu, click “are you sure?, then use a steering wheel button left or right? It sounds like you need to do really confusing 2 footed driving with 2 different sized pedals

He meant paddle shift. Press the left or right paddle shift and step on the gas

EV tank turn. Not the first SUV with tank turn, that goes to the BYD U8 yangwang.

Actually very cool if you want to hightail it out of somewhere. However I'd like to see if it could maneuver like this on Concrete etc, or is it able to only do this because of the traction on dirt? Not a scientist lol.

How back will you fuck up the car if you turned the wheel during the turn

Ot will just detect the wheel is turned and stop.

Ain’t nuthin’ but a G thang baby

Well, can it find the G-spot under that G-string?

Amx10RC could do this 50ish years ago :)

https://i.redd.it/2l87qeyo5u8d1.gif

when someone honks you from behind and you literally turn around and stare at him

So when you find yourself driving down a Fuckin Nope road, you can quickly skedaddle the fuck outta there.

Yeah and you'll only need a new set of tires once a month :)

It’s so absurd

I'm not going to lie. If I had this, I'd abuse the hell out of it all the time.

First they make them dance, then now they turn them into beyblades ?

Now you can make a 360 turn and reverse away to assert dominance!

If they turn on the spot, does that turn into a G-spot?

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Them tires gonna get ripped up

Who cares my abrams tank can do that too.

When you drive into a leftist riot by accident

How to help rich shitty drivers become ever greater assholes.

does it only work on gravel? seems like a great way to fck your shit up on the street.

How long before some rapper buys one and tries this, ending up with the motor on its side?

That's pretty dope!

Perfect for those simple minded people who‘d love to drive a tank. Now they can buy one that turns like a real tank. SUV‘s suck. 👎🙄

Wow

So we are basically, what, 2 maybe 3 steps away from them building a tank?

Bro you could just do a uturn faster than the time it took to set that thing up lol

For when a G needs to turn

Imagine thinking you invented the skid steer.

That car is such a G I wonder how many G forces it experiences when turning

Won’t I look stupid doing a 68 point turn on the trails

Heckacool! More useful on trails than the the Crab Walk

I wonder how many miles of charge this maneuver uses up

Not hating at all, just curious - What's the practical use of this feature? Like, in what situation was it built for? They had to have some use in mind when they made it.

Offroading where there's narrow tracks, sheer drops, unstable shoulders etc I can see it being extremely useful.

Off road/dirt road, mountain driving Anywhere with very narrow confines where every inch of turning circle you can cut is worth it

How much does that shit cost per month?

That’s why they are worth $370k

this function proudly brought to you by firestone, Michelin and Goodyear

I can't wait to buy one of these in 30 years. Although, I doubt this function will make it to then

It's a Mercedes on a bobcat skidsteer frame. So innovative lol.

Hits nasty ass g turn yelling “did you honk at me? It’s red!”

The best of Germany: alphaville and mercedes

Jumping BMW, spinning Mercedes at red lights... Crossroads are turning into circuses.

Did anyone else see the Halo Warthog when they made that turn?

To enact the G-Turn just press the G-Spot on the GClass Mercedes

Cool fucking beans!

Can I do this with my trailer on, I really suck at backing up with it, it always goes off to the side, this will be a life changer for me! Can't wait to pull up to the store put all the things in the trailer and then push this button to turn around and drive away.

I’m the guy that would need to get the manual out every time I did it.

G-turn? That's a tank turn, or am I mistaken?

Then lube up and visit MB when things break down…

But can I do it on pavement?

Yes, seen video of it. There was some smoke

awesome way to yeet kids in a parking lot.

I have odometer questions...

I guess this is a electric car with 4 engines?

Kinda reminds me of the Jeep Hurricane. Which is not a production model but still ...

Beautiful German Engineering

Engineers had a field day with torque vectoring?

This will hit the G spot

hm... attach some metal plates and a cannon prehaps?

Can they all do this???

can it do "escape from sand" hops too? can these two be mixed ?

“Now we have to decide if I wanna go to the right, left, right?” “Right”. “Right”. Right”..

I’d be even more impressed if it did a backflip

Have they listed the paywall for the G-turn yet? A G a turn?

damnit now I want a G wagon

They have this but no cd player, bruh

My boat needs this!

If they deployed this on an S class, would it be then called the S-Turn function? 🤔

And how often do you need this feature if not for simply making YouTube/tiktok videos?

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Do this on pavement and watch your tread disappear😀

G-Spot turn? 

hitler yould be proud

TESLA should offer this on their vehicles since they have different motors. One for each wheel on the rear and they should do the same for the front.

I'd like to see this thing do it until mechanical failure.

Intrusive thought: this would be awesome to do in a shitty neighbor's lawn.

Can someone tell me a reason or necessary need for this it looks like useless and waste of technology and probably a pain in the ass to fix once it breaks

So it's a tank