SPY PICS: Next Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe steps out
Second-generation coupe-style version of Mercedes-Benz’s best-selling SUV spotted in the wildThe incoming new Mercedes-Benz GLC may have already made its global debut ahead of its Australian launch next year, but the first spy images of the sleeker 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe are also now starting to flow out of Europe.
Snapped here in Mercedes-Benz heartland – Stuttgart – the second-generation GLC Coupe is expected to make its own formal public appearance late this year or early in 2023, with the vast majority of its key specs set to be shared with the wagon, albeit with the sex appeal dialled up.
The front and rear of the engineering development car you see here are shrouded in line-blurring camouflage, although our spy photographer tells us the coupe’s styling is clearly inspired by the new GLC wagon.
Given the two body styles share a nameplate, underpinnings and mechanicals, the differences will be designed to ramp up the four-door’s athleticism in addition to the sportier body.
Like the GLC wagon and the related Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the GLC will only be available with four-cylinder and electrified powertrains, including the eventual Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 which is in line for a turbocharged four-cylinder plug-in hybrid set-up that’s tipped to produce more than 500kW of power… just without the raucous soundtrack of a V8.
For reference, the lesser Mercedes-AMG C 43 churns out a combined 300kW/500Nm.
The GLC has long been the best-selling Mercedes-Benz model 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 this year accounted for six per cent of the $60,000-plus medium SUV segment (to the end of May), compared to the 3.1 per cent share occupied by the BMW X4.
There’s no word yet on local launch timing, but the new Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe is expected to land late next year or early in 2024. The wagon is due to launch in the first half of 2023.
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