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Old 12-10-2021, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by TimFreeh View Post
It's not an ML, if you watch the video there is a close-up of the rear hatch.

It's a GLK X204 chassis.

Very highly rated in crash test results. It could certainly be a grafted repair situation.
I was looking at it on my phone, and only the thumbnail would load, so from the side it looked more like a 166 to me. But that GLK is from the same era so the ‘design language’ was similar between the X204 and W166.

In any case they build them all the same way, start with the floor pan, add the sides, finally a solid top. No matter if it’s a sedan or a SUV.

No way there’s a transverse seam at that point from the factory on anything MB builds.
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