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confirms the fact that the front
and rear axles are locked together
in 4WD. Select 4WD, drop the
auto into drive, wind on a bit of
steering lock, ease some throttle
on and within a matter of feet
you’ll have the tyres chirping due
to drivetrain wind-up. No rocket
science required, but it seems the
current crop of performance car
loving journalists (that’s almost
all of them) can’t get their heads
around a simple 4X4 ute.
New X-Class owners should
ignore what the 4MATIC badge
on the tailgate implies and
should not drive the X-Class on
hard surfaces in 4H. If you want
genuine AWD functionality in
your ute – the kind that requires
a centre-differential or similar
arrangement to deal with the
variation in rotation of the front
and rear prop-shafts - then you’ll
need to wait for the V6 diesel
version of the X-Class – the
X 350d 4MATIC – due to go
on sale later this year. It has a
Mercedes-Benz V6 turbo-diesel
engine, and the real McCoy allwheel-drive
Mercedes-Benz
4MATIC drivetrain. According
to one high-profile media outlet,
the V6 X-Class will be the only
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