 Peace out, you guys. I'll go back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am Goalpenning out your new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today we are in the brand new 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 courtesy of Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown in Hagerstown, Maryland. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So today we are in this one because I personally love the exterior styling. I do love the interior ambient lighting that I first found on this one as well because it's kind of a dark day today and this ambient lighting is just vibrant. And so if you're curious, the GLC is going to be competing with the BMW X3 and Genesis GV70. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. So as you can imagine, there are a couple different configurations for the GLC 300. First one is going to be the rear wheel drive configuration starting at $47,100. Then there is the 4-Matic all-wheel drive going for $49,450. But regardless of the configuration that you go with, the power plant is going to be the same. Powering the Beast is a two-liter turbocharged inline four-cylinder with a mild hybrid system putting out 255 horsepower at 5,800 RPM, 295 pound-feet of torque coming in at 2,000 RPM, power being sent to rear wheels or all wheels through a nine-speed automatic with paddle shifters, zero to 60 ton coming in at approximately 6.2 seconds. That's plenty of respectable. With MPG numbers coming in at 22 in the city, 27 on the highway taking premium, unleaded fuel. So before we do any kind of fun paddle shifter or acceleration test here in the GLC, I wanted to mention to you guys the drive modes. It's labeled Dynamic. It's actually located just underneath of that massive infotainment screen, which we'll be getting to later in the video of course. But drive modes will include off-road, eco, comfort, sport and individual, adjusting things like the shift points, throttle responses, steering sensitivity and the all-wheel drive system engagement then as well. So now I haven't got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters and acceleration here to the test at the same time. I want to see how quickly the paddle shifters are going to react for us. And let's also see how quickly we can get this one here up to speed. All right you guys in three, two, one, go. Yup, baby. There it is. That is not bad at all, man. And I love that it has a mild hybrid system too because it kind of eliminates all of the turbo lag that you traditionally do find in turbocharged four-cylinder engines. So definitely a big fan of that. So that was just the acceleration actually. I forgot to do the paddle shifter. So let's do that one more time and go to go ahead and pull over real quick and let's find yet another straightaway and let's see how quickly these paddle shifters are going to react for us here. All right, out on the road, let's go. Yeah, there's a slight delay but they're not bad. They have a really nice feel to them as well. So a lot of times when you hit paddle shifters they don't actually feel as high quality as these actually are. So I'm a big fan of the way they feel but there is a slight delay to them. Mercedes does do better in more of their performance oriented cars. This is just an SUV after all, but they're not bad and you can also use paddle shifters to do a little bit of engine braking as well. So if it were to be snowing out here in Hagerstown which you can do, if you're going down a hill you can simply just downshift using the paddle shifters rather than actually hitting the brakes or just sliding off the road. So they are good for that reason as well. So ultimately, plenty of an acceleration overall for this thing. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. So upfront you will find 13.5 inch ventilated front discs in the back, 12.6 inch solid rear discs. As far as that braking feel goes, it's soft. It's on the softer side of things no doubt but again, this isn't a performance car so I didn't expect it to be a super firm braking feel. So it'll certainly get the job done for the GLC. Then touching on suspension and handling you will find a four wheel independent suspension with the multi-link design coming standard and my very favorite part, an adaptive damping suspension comes standard on the GLC 300 as well. That's something I didn't necessarily expect because it isn't always the case in the competition. So what an adaptive damping suspension is it's gonna monitor each shock absorber individually not only adjusting to the road of perfection is giving you a smoother ride but it's also gonna tighten up that suspension during heavy corner and giving you better handling as well. So overall it gives you the best of both worlds what you're really gonna tell the difference is the ride quality. It gives you so much smoother of a ride quality compared to an SUV that does not have an adaptive damping suspension. And I can attest to that my short little test drive here today the ride quality has been 100% on point as you would expect from Mercedes-Benz but as you will always get from an adaptive damping suspension. So I did wanna mention that and as I still have it in sport driving mode it is a much heavier steering feel. So I absolutely love that. Let me go ahead and take it out and put it back in comfort. It does loosen up a little bit but it's still a little bit on the heavier side of things. So as far as the steering feel goes in the GLC I absolutely love it and the 10 and two grips are definitely on the thicker side as well. So huge fan of that. And as far as cabin noise goes even with our massive panoramic moon roof that we have in this one today as far as wind noise goes it's 100% at bay and even road noise. Like it's all perfectly fine and sometimes you do get a good bit of wind noise with these panoramic moon roofs but that is not the case in the GLC. So again, well done Mercedes. Touching on rear visibility looking at my rear view mirror here I can see perfectly fine out the back. So 100% not gonna have any issues there. And another big plus here is rain sensing windshield wipers do come standard on the GLC 300. So whenever this thing detects any kind of Mr. Rainfall it's gonna automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you just kind of like automatic headlights. So I do love that as well but that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. So let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300. All right, so here she is you guys the new 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 finished in Starling Blue Metallic which by the way is a $750 paint option in case you were curious. I think it looks absolutely amazing but as always let's go ahead and start where this one is made taking a look at the vent. First character is the letter W indicating that the new GLC 300 is built and assembled in Germany. As it should be but let's go ahead and start up front on this one. Single horizontal bar on that front grill does come standard LED headlights with LED daytime running lights coming standard along with the automatic feature and automatic high beams. So if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction it's gonna automatically dim them back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone it's gonna automatically bounce it back up to high beams for you there. So definitely very convenient. Chrome accents found on the lower portion of that front bumper as well. And I did wanna also mention there is an AMG line package that goes for $3,450 and that essentially gives you gloss black accents and a diamond block front grill rather than the black horizontal bars that we have on this one here today. But anyways, that pretty much rounds out the front end. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. And something else since you are around to the side of the GLC. Roof reels do come standard of course. They are finished in aluminum up top there. Chrome or gloss black window surrounds dependent upon the configuration that you go with. Same thing for the mirrors. They are body colored or gloss black dependent upon the configuration. They will be power adjustable with LED integrated turd signals. They will also be heated and power folding as well. So when you lock this one up, they are going to fold in when you unlock it, they're gonna fold back out for you there. I do like the chrome accents found on the door handles there that definitely looks good. Then take a look down at the wheel setup. 18 inch aluminum alloys do come standard but then 19 inch and 20 inch designs are available in case you were curious. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right and something else since we are around to the back of the GLC. First thing I wanna mention is traditionally you will find a body colored shark fin antenna on the top of most vehicles out there like 90% of them. But with Mercedes Benz that is definitely not the case. A much more aerodynamic look, a much more cleaner look in my personal opinion. But rear spoiler with an integrated brake light just below that rear window wiper. Of course, LED tail lights coming standard for added illumination at night. You do have some subscribe and like the video lettering found on the back. Not really, but go ahead and smash the subscribe button. I have been doing this for nine years now filming new car reviews. So if you're into new car reviews, yeah, go ahead and hit the subscribe button. But just below it all, you're gonna find some chrome accents found on the lower portion of that rear bumper or gloss black if you go with the AMG line package. Of course, but integrated dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips, they definitely look good. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so I've been asked to go around to the back of the GLC when it comes to opening that rear tailgate. A power tailgate does come standard for any and all configurations across the board. So you gotta love that. There is a button on the key fob. There's also of course a button on the tailgate itself as well. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 21.9 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there is a 40, 20, 40 split meaning the rear seats do fold down quite flat, bumping that up to 59.3 cubic feet. And there actually were some buttons in the cargo area that made folding down those rear seats extremely easy as well. But grocery bag hooks do come standard cargo lighting. Of course, there are tie-down anchors. There is a cargo cover actually. Some nice netted storage found in the back left corner. There's actually some elastic storage found on the right side in the back as well. And then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you are going to find a spare tire, which I always personally prefer as opposed to the fix-a-flat. So then making our way up to the rear legroom that is going to come in at 37.4 inches for reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in the back seats there. Rear center armrest with a phone holder does come standard rear ventilation coming standard as well. And there is a little bit of storage underneath of that rear ventilation. However, I did not happen to find any charging ports unfortunately. But anyways, then make your way up to the front seats, power adjustable front seats with memory settings for up to three different drivers. And they're actually on the passenger side as well. So the passenger seat is also memory adjustable for three different passengers. So that's pretty cool. Heated front seats coming standard, ventilated front seats are going to be optional. And all of the power adjustable buttons are located on the doors in typical Mercedes fashion. So overall seating was plenty adjustable. I was able to find my perfect driving position. So absolutely no issues there. And then take a look at the steering wheel. As I said previously, the 10 and two grips are massive. It is tilt and telescoping. It is power adjustable and it is leather wrapped as well. So absolutely no issues with the steering wheel. Then make your way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. All of your buttons are on one side of the key. You got the lock button, which is the Mercedes logo just underneath of that unlock. And then the button to pop the power tailgate there. But it is all keyless entry with a push button starts. All I am going to do here, simply put them off in the break and press that engine start button located just to the left of the infotainment screen. And so once started up, 12.3 inch digital gauge cluster does come standard. And since it's digital, yes, it is extremely customizable. And so if you hit the little home icon on the left side of the steering wheel, it gives you a bunch of different looks like understated sport classic. You got the full navigation setup and off road mode actually as well. So a lot of really fun looks to the gauges dependent upon what you're going for. I think the sport looks good. I think the navigation setup is always nice as well. And I'm surprised that they have that off road mode as well, but overall you can just choose to simply display a classic look, which gives you tachometer, speedometer, digital speedometer. And of course it's always going to tell you your outside temperature and how many miles you'll have left until you hit empty. So overall, I always say this with Mercedes do an absolutely amazing job with their digital gauge clusters. And that is certainly the case in the GLC 300. But now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. A dual pane panoramic moonroof comes standard. And like I said, there wasn't any cabin always coming in through it. So I do like that. The passengers have a view of the sky as well there. Garage door openers on the frameless rear view mirror also comes standard for up to three different garage doors. There's plenty of wood trims available. I like it because it's kind of like a matte wood trim and it is texturized as well. So it has a nice feel to it just above the passenger side glove box surrounding the engine start button as well there. You do have dual cup holders, front and center here. You got a wireless phone charger in there. You got a USB charging port as well. And then within the center armrest actually a decent amount of space. It looks like there's some LED lighting within there as well. That's pretty cool. And a couple USB charging ports yet again. But I think my favorite part about the interior quality has got to be the ambient lighting. They did a wonderful job with that. It is very bright, very vibrant and there's 64 colors available as well. There's two toned colors available or like kind of a fetish two tone colors. And then there's just monotone colors as well. So I put it on like a purplish blue to kind of match up with our exterior. I probably could have put it on a just straight blue but I don't know. I kind of like the purplish blue look but anyways, ambient lighting is 100% amazing. But now let's go ahead and take a look at the infotainment screen here. And so this is an 11.9 inch portrait style color touch screen display. Comes with Bluetooth and audio streaming, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. Of course you're looking at factory navigation system up there as well. Can adjust your climate control settings up there. So that's pretty cool along with your ambient lighting settings like I was just mentioning and your radio information. And so Bermester 3D surround sound system does come standard on this one. So that is the one we have obviously. Let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. Actually that wasn't bad at all. Plenty of bass, plenty of clarity as you would expect. And the cool thing is you also have aluminum speaker covers all over the place. So that was pretty nice as well. And another cool thing is the way to actually turn up and down the radio, you just simply slide your finger either up and down on the steering wheel or left and right just below the infotainment screen. So that's super easy. If you don't like that though you can just simply press in and it turns it up slightly at a time but still a lot of fun ways to adjust the volume there. And like I said, sound system was plenty fine there but last thing I wanna mention to you guys on the infotainment screen elases when you do put the GLC in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board the 360 degree monitor there to the left that is gonna be optional. We do have that option giving you that bird's eye view which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so front side, side curtain airbags do come standard drivers knee airbag up front as well. In the back you're gonna have latch AKA lower anchors to tether your children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, tapers for monitoring system but also coming standard a collision mitigation braking system, driver attention monitoring system, parktronic with active park assist, active brake assist with autonomous emergency braking, blind spot assist and Mercedes-Benz emergency call service. That last one is pretty cool. So if you were to have an accident where the airbags deploy the car is actually automatically gonna call you and ask you if you need an ambulance or police or anything like that. So that is definitely a very nice safety feature. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the GLC, great interior quality especially the ambient lighting. So I absolutely love that. And I haven't mentioned it yet but you do get a four-year 50,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty which is above average of course. Traditionally you get three years 36 on most other manufacturers. So that's pretty cool as well. The park assist I didn't mention it yet but the park assist is amazing on any Mercedes-Benz. You can essentially tell it where to park and whether you want it to pull in or back in it's gonna automatically do all that for you. So that is pretty cool as well. I love the ride quality. I love the lack of cabin noise within the cabin. That was amazing as well. As far as room for improvement goes the braking feel was a little bit too soft for me. That could be different for everybody of course. It's just my personal preference. So wouldn't have minded if they firmed that up a little bit as they do on their AMG cars. And this thing can get pretty expensive pretty quick because there are so many different options. On the plus side of that you can't really make it your own but on the negative side of that base price can go up pretty good bit pretty quick. I'm just saying. But that is about it for this one you guys. Thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're new car reviews because that is what we do here on this channel after all. Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know but I will see you guys all in the next video. Stay Gold.