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I'm not an SUV guy, but I have a 2019 C63S coupe. Similar powertrain, except RWD, and technically it's my daily driver, however I don't actually have a need to drive daily, so it's more of a weekend and occasional errand car these days, but it does all the normal driving just as well as tearing up a canyon road. The thing with the GLC is that it has a somewhat harsh suspension to manage all that extra weight compared to the C coupe and sedans. This is primarily why I don't do SUVs. They are just heavy blobs with compromised center of gravity and handling. ESP is more conservative, because it has to keep it from flipping over if you try to be too much of a hooligan. It seems like the AWD also makes the transmission more jerky in the GLC.
I see you are in Europe and I do have to say if I still lived in Europe I probably wouldn't own a 63 outside of Germany. I took delivery of my C63 at the factory in Germany and drove around Europe for 2 months, but other than in Germany the car felt overkill everywhere else. Always had to hold back in order to not end up with a stack of speeding tickets. The 63 series cars are not particularly fun to drive slow. Despite having relatively low speed limits here in the USA, we don't have speed cameras everywhere, so nobody really drives the speed limit. I'm having more fun driving the car here, than I did in Europe except for Germany. Just kinda frustrating if you constantly have to watch your foot, because it's so easy to reach high speeds with these beasts before you realize.
Last edited by superswiss; Nov 27, 2023 at 05:14 PM.
Yes, the GLC63 is good for daily drives to work and meetings. It is a good family hauler, with plenty of cargo room. My '21 GLC63 replaced my F90 M5 as a daily, and it has been good so far. It needed a tune, or at least I felt it did, and now on RennTech it is a good all around car for every occasion. I'm on 21" wheels and I personally think the air suspension is very good, and far less harsh than any X3.
For sure, my wife has 19 GLC63 truck and we have a 2 year old and it work greats for both of them. Gets terrible gas mileage but my wife doesn't seem to mind.
I guess it all depends on the people involved. But I've DD'd my 2020 since new and have loved every minute. Have about 35k miles now which is way past where I expected to keep it.
It's lowered ~20mm with 15mm/20mm spacers Front/Back (Summer Tires/stock wheels) and swap to snows in the winter.
The GLC63 is surprisingly good at the DD thing IMO. Throwing stuff in the way-back (even the dog occasionally), going to dinner w/the wife and possibly the kids, holiday fam events, and back n forth to work. Lowered as it is, it's really a larger hot hatch, smaller wagon or something in between rather than an SUV which is why I like it.
Face it though, it's never going to be an SUV in the Atlas, Grand Cherokee, Tahoe, Q7, or whatever your stereotypical SUV would be. The GLC63 is a higher roof car with a hatch that's heavily skewed towards performance not suspension travel, marshmallow ride and, and ground clearance...even at stock height.
I drive mine in the Winter/snow/ice, but it'll become a snowplow and I'll just WFH or take something else with more than ~6" of snow.
Also, it's my car, nobody else really drives it, and the wife drives a Wrangler. So... compared to the Wrangler, the GLC on-road is always going to be the better choice for a date or family around town.
My other recent cars were M2c, SQ5, SVT Focus, and some other stuff so everything I've ever had has been on the more "performance" end of things ride-wise. My family is used to it. YMMV
Also, I wouldn't think of using it for a 1500mile family road trip. Mostly because I'd hate to pile the miles on it. I've given up keeping my cars pristine and just drive them with the occasional OCD moments to clean them up. Any long fam trip, I'm going to rent something I don't care about.
Hope this helps in some way.
<Edit> wanted to mention, much of my driving is 50-50 suburban and highway with 70mph speed limits...not that anyone does that. 85 is about average. As superswiss mentioned, if I was doing city or low speed limit roads all day every day, the GLC would, I hate to say it, be overkill.
I get a fair number of chances to stretch it somewhat for cheap thrills.
Yes, if gas milage is not a problem as it’s not that great. My wife loves the car, and she has the coup version which is more than enough to handle her groceries/accessible for her needs. By the way the car sounds awesome and clearly a head turner as you don’t have many on the road. These engines will disappear so get them while you can. I loved the sound so much, and I scooped up a G63 which I drive as much as possible.
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