The news is advanced by the Mercedes-Benz Passion Blog website, an entity usually well-informed about the daily life of the star's brand. And that, this time, guarantees that the much sought after Diesel version of the Class G , the imposing SUV from Stuttgart, is due to start marketing in Germany later this year.
Also according to the same publication, it will also be in December 2018 that Mercedes-Benz will start production of this new engine, which will cause the first units will only reach future owners, at best, by March 2019.
As for the dealers, they should only receive their units, for exhibition and test-drives, during the spring of next year.
The M 656 is the Diesel of Choice
Regarding the engine itself, the choice of those responsible for Mercedes-Benz fell in the new in-line six-cylinder 3.0 l turbodiesel with 286 hp power , coupled to a nine-speed automatic transmission (9G-Tronic) and permanent integral transmission, better known as 350d 4MATIC. The block code-named OM 656 was introduced in 2017, together with the S-Class facelift, having, however, already reached other models, including the new CLS.
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It should be remembered that news about the introduction of the G-Class Diesel engine comes just a few days after the model started production at Magna Steyr's plant in Graz, Austria. Location where the G-Class has been produced since 1979 and from which more than 300,000 units of the imposing all-terrain have come out.