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Land vehicle, Vehicle, Car, Pickup truck, Off-roading, Automotive design, Volkswagen amarok, Automotive tire, Truck, Luxury vehicle, Expectations could hardly be higher than when Mercedes-Benz, the brand with the motto “The best or nothing,” sets out to enter a market segment. After years of choosing “nothing” as it regards vehicles with a cargo bed at the back, and following years of intensive market research, soul searching, and development, the new X-class pickup truck has arrived. Mercedes—whose corporate parent Daimler has a rich history as a maker of commercial trucks—didn’t try to reinvent the wheel in creating its first ever pickup, nor did its engineers take a GLE-class SUV and add a pickup bed. Instead, they drew from business partner Nissan and its Europe-built Navara—the successor to the Frontier that Nissan still sells in the United States. The Nissan pickup has a reputation for toughness and reliability, and the latest Navara replaced the traditional leaf springs for the rear axle
