2024 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450
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Learn four things we like about the 2025 Mercedes-Benz GLE450 and four things we don’t.
Offering the solidity and solitude of a bank vault, the 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLE450 mid-size SUV embodies the brand’s classic definition of luxury.
These cars offer panoramic moonroofs or sunroofs either as standard or optional equipment for 2024.
The 71 vehicles that qualified for the awards for 2024 is an increase of 23 over 2023, when stricter requirements began to take effect.
The big news for 2024 is the new plug-in hybrid GLE450e that combines a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with an electric motor and a 23.3-kilowatt-hour battery.
IIHS announced that three model-year 2023 and 2024 mid-size luxury SUVs offer good crash protection for front and backseat occupants in the agency’s updated moderate overlap front crash test, but several others scored acceptable, marginal and poor.
Two Mercedes-Benz SUVs have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s highest honor, with the model-year 2023 and ‘24 GLC and 2024 GLE each being named Top Safety Pick+.
There are lots of choices among the cheaper-to-buy-and-drive mid-size SUVs that, when properly configured, can safely tow at least 5,000 pounds.
Shoppers may notice minor tweaks to the 2024 GLE’s exterior and cabin, but the key differentiators are under the hood and in the vehicle’s new towing and off-road features.