On April 2, mercedes-Benz China official website recently updated the G-class model and price, G 350 models removed from the official website, the other two models G 500 and AMG G 63 guidance price increased to 1.899 million yuan and 2.554 million yuan.
As early as the end of last year, it was reported that the Graz plant in Austria, which produces the Mercedes-Benz G-class, was about to suspend the production of new cars for the Mercedes-Benz G 350 model due to production capacity. At the beginning of this year, after the last batch of more than 500 Mercedes-Benz G 350s are sold out at domestic dealers, they will not be sold again in 2022.
Now on the official website, the removal of the Mercedes-Benz G 350 model confirms the suspension of production and sale of the vehicle. This means that the Mercedes-Benz G 350 model dedicated to the Chinese market will be temporarily withdrawn, and there is no news on whether production and sales will resume in the future.
The Mercedes-Benz G 350 was officially launched in China in September 2020, with a new car listing guidance price of 1.4298 million yuan, which was adjusted to 1.468 million yuan in November last year.
The exterior and interior of the Mercedes-Benz G 350 are not significantly different from the G 500 models, and still adopt the "square box" shape of the G-Class models for decades, and only the tail label has been changed to the word "G 350". The interior styling also offers Mercedes-Benz's latest dual-screen family design, and retains the G-class iconic "three locks".
The biggest difference between the new car is that it is equipped with a 2.0T four-cylinder engine, which is directly "halved" in terms of cylinder number and displacement compared with the 4.0T V8 engine of the G 500, with a maximum output of 258 horsepower, a peak torque of 370N·m, and an official acceleration time of 8.1 seconds per 100 kilometers.
Although the Mercedes-Benz G 350 has been greatly reduced in terms of power performance, this has not made it more affordable in terms of price. Compared with the Mercedes-Benz G 350 and G 500, the biggest difference in the price between the two is not the cost of the engine, but the huge gap in consumption tax due to different displacements, but Mercedes-Benz does not seem to give this high profit to consumers, and the price of nearly 1.5 million yuan has caused a lot of controversy.
In addition, mercedes-Benz G350 is also difficult to escape the doom of price increase, the new car was once increased by more than 500,000 yuan in the early stage of listing, and the landing price reached 2.2 million yuan. After the market stabilized last year, the landing price was also more than 1.8 million yuan, which is undoubtedly the most expensive 2.0T model ever.
With the aggravation of the lack of cores faced by global cars in the second half of last year, the G350, which is only for the Chinese market, has undoubtedly become the object of "opening the knife", and now it has suffered the fate of suspension of production and suspension of sale less than 2 years after its launch.