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LDV T60 vs Mercedes-Benz S400

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LDV T60
LDV T60

$30,489 - $59,990

2024 price

Mercedes-Benz S400
Mercedes-Benz S400

2018 price

Summary

2024 LDV T60
2018 Mercedes-Benz S400
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Twin Turbo 4, 2.0L

Fuel Type
Diesel

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Fuel Efficiency
9.3L/100km (combined)

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Seating
5

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Dislikes
  • Was expecting more from new suspension
  • Software and on-board tech should be better
  • Drivetrain still a bit rough around the edges

  • Some terseness from run-flat tyres
  • Controls could be simpler
  • Non L models not that spacious in the back
2024 LDV T60 Summary

So, you’re after an affordable alternative to the increasingly expensive Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger. You need it to be tough enough for work, but also big and comfortable enough to haul family every now and again.

It’s a common predicament, and one that's increasingly served by Chinese and Korean alternatives.

Today, we’re looking at LDV’s latest effort - the T60 Max Plus. While it looks like just another new variant from the outside, it’s hiding some significant changes underneath, and it takes its place at the top of the T60 range in 2024.

Could it be the right ute to fit your budget? Let’s take a look.

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2018 Mercedes-Benz S400 Summary

Imagine a car that can pretty much drive itself, if you let it. And it’ll do that while you get a massage, pump some Beyonce, and enjoy the fragrance of a field full of flowers… And then, it can teach you to do stretches and exercises in the driver’s seat.

It may sound like fictional fiction, but it’s factual fact. And it’s the Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2018 model, which has taken the so-called ‘wellbeing’ of the driver to a new level.

The facelifted model has seen plenty of styling changes and some tech upgrades, and while making the flagship car in a particular brand’s line-up is often a task fraught with issues, the German company’s big, expensive, luxurious, limousine is undoubtedly a more thoughtful car for 2018.

But just remember, its predecessor was considered - at least for a little while - as the best car in the world by some automotive journalists. 

Now Mercedes-Benz has updated it, and it reckons it’s better than before, bringing a bunch of new technology, new engines, a reworked model range and, perhaps not essentially, but still pleasantly, lower pricing.

Read on to see how Beyonce factors into the equation.

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