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Mercedes-Benz E400 vs Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class

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Mercedes-Benz E400
Mercedes-Benz E400

2018 price

Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class
Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class

$89,000 - $200,700

2025 price

Summary

2018 Mercedes-Benz E400
2025 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Turbo 4, 2.0L

Fuel Type
-

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Fuel Efficiency
7.4L/100km (combined)

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Seating
4

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Dislikes
  • Can feel a little bland
  • Doors are super heavy
  • Far from cheap

  • Misses V8 soundtrack
  • Big price rise over previous model
  • Smaller boot, no spare tyre
2018 Mercedes-Benz E400 Summary

It is hard to immediately think of a country more suited to the convertible life than Australia. Even our coldest states (you know who you are…) are blessed with more warming sun than almost anywhere else on the civilised parts of the planet, so you’d think we’d be swanning about in dropped-top bliss almost year round.

But it’s actually in the UK (despite being cold, grey and almost always underwater) that convertibles really fly out of dealerships, with sun-starved Brits buying more than anyone else in the world. Weird, right?

Still, here they remain something of an oddity, sold in small numbers to drop-top diehards. At least partly because the convertibles of old were almost always slightly worse than their hardtop equivalents. 

But Mercedes - which makes more convertibles than most - claims to have mastered the soft-top formula with the E400 4Matic, a car it says offers all the perks of open-air motoring without any of the dynamic or practical downsides. 

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2025 Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class Summary

Let’s make one thing clear from the very beginning - this new Mercedes-AMG GLC63 S E Performance is technically superior to the model it replaces. Whether it’s actually better or not, is the real question at the heart of the matter.

Why? Because, like the C63 sedan stablemate, AMG has opted to replace the previous model’s 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 engine with a new 2.0-litre four-cylinder hybrid powertrain. It was a move brought about in part because of increasingly stricter emissions standards in Europe, but also ties-in with the German firm’s success in modern Formula One racing.

While the new hybrid system offers more power, more torque and better fuel economy, as the lukewarm response to the C63 has demonstrated, the hard reality for AMG is that its buyers associate it with V8 and even V12 engines. That emotional pull is hard to replace with logic, even if the new model offers technical superiority.

But how does the new powertrain suit the GLC63 - is it just technically better or is it holistically improved?

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