THE jagged dark mountain tops rip into the searing blue skyline as I gallop along the miles of flat, barren desert of America.You can almost sense the ghosts of John Wayne and Charlton Heston riding alongside as the sizzling near-100°F heat distorts the view of the unforgiving horizon. But my horsepower is of the four-wheeled, not four-legged kind — the new Mercedes GL-Class large SUV.This is New Mexico, once dubbed the Cowboy Capital of the World.Now the home of Western movies is being touted as the Hollywood of America’s south-west, thanks to films like Young Guns and Dances With Wolves, not to mention the remake of The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp, which is currently being shot here.This new sprinkling of Tinseltown has completely rejuvenated the state. Mercedes are hoping some of that box office success rubs off on their big GL.The GL was launched in New Mexico’s capital Santa Fe this week and we had an exclusive first drive of the 4×4 that has it all to do to overtake the Range Rover, Audi Q7 and Toyota Land Cruiser.In the States, the GL is the luxury 4×4 king, selling 25,000 a year. But on our shores it has only sold… Read full this story
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