Coupe-style version of Merc’s best-selling SUV spotted in the wild for the first time
The new-generation Mercedes-Benz GLC may have already made its global debut and has a date with Aussie consumers next year, but the first spy images of the sleeker 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe are starting to flow out of Europe.
Snapped here in Mercedes’ home town of Stuttgart, the GLC Coupe is expected to make its own formal public appearance in the early stages of 2023 with the vast majority of its key specs set to be shared with the wagon, albeit with the sex appeal dialled up a bit.
The front and rear of this particular develop car are predictably shroud with line-blurring camouflage, although our spy photographer tells us the coupe’s styling is clearly inspired by, but ultimately a little different to the already revealed wagon.
Given the two body styles share a nameplate, underpinnings and mechanicals, the differences will only be subtle and will designed to ramp up the four-door’s athleticism in addition to the sloping roofline.
Like the GLC wagon and the latest Mercedes-Benz C-Class it’s based on, the GLC will only be available with four-cylinder and electrified powertrains, including the eventual Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 which will almost certainly feature a turbocharged four-cylinder plug-in hybrid set-up.
Those in a love affair with the current V8s need not despair though; the electrified four-banger is tipped to produce more than 500kW of power … just without the raucous soundtrack.
For reference, the lesser Mercedes-AMG C 43 churns out a combined 300kW/500Nm.
The GLC has long been the best-selling Mercedes product both here and abroad, with 2513 examples of the outgoing model having been sold locally in the first five months of 2022, 792 of which were coupes.
Even in isolation, the coupe has accounted for six per cent of the $60,000-plus medium SUV segment so far this year ending May, compared to the 3.1 per cent share occupied by the BMW X4.
With the new GLC wagon not due in Australia until the first half of next year, it would be reasonable to not expect the coupe until at least late 2023, possibly even early 2024.
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