Should you have a mere £123,115 burning a hole in your pocket plus the determination to buy a cramped, uncomfortable and vastly overpowered 4×4, Mercedes has just the thing for you.

We have covered the latest 536 bhp G63 AMG before – and had our knuckles rapped for showing insufficient respect to this icon of idiocy (oops, there we go again). Visitors have told us that Mercedes has the right to make anything that earns it a profit, a sentiment we completely agree with. We don’t want the G-Class banned, not least because it is a source of endless amusement, in the same way as giving Hummer owners a look of utter derision is one of life’s little pleasures.

Mercedes says the GL Class is the S-Class of off-roaders. That’s funny, because most of us think of the old GL-Class as the Maybach of off-roaders: oversized, overpriced and over here (it is very popular in America, though, where it does not look like the design was run through the photocopier on zoom function).