2007 Frankfurt Auto Show: Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid

• Competes with: BMW X5, Land Rover Range Rover
• Looks like: A standard ML
• Drivetrain: 340-hp combined hybrid-electric power plant
• Hits dealerships: 2009

Mercedes has taken its redesigned ML-Class SUV and put a two-mode hybrid system inside, to pretty impressive results. The hybrid system is shared with GM and BMW, and we recently tested a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid that uses a similar setup. However, this ML450 not only gets a combined rating of 340 hp, but if our metric calculations are correct, Mercedes is saying it will get 30 mpg (7.7 liters per 100 km). We’ll believe it when we see it at the pump; expect that to happen sometime in 2009. More information will become available next week when the Frankfurt show opens to the media.

Comments

[MSS]

OMG!! love the new Mazda6!!!

But the ML450 Hybrid is cool too, but how come it doesn't compete with the Lexus RX450h(or whatever it's number is)?

[Jordan]

Out of the Lexus line...this ML competes more with the GX470 than the RX. This is due to its size, price, and truck like underpinnings.