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Old Aug 7, 2009 | 07:40 PM
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GLK - front grill - interesting difference

The upper grille is a two bar set up (Europe uses a three-bar grille) with a large three-pointed star in the middle.
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 10:53 PM
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China gets the three-louvered grill on their GLKs. Plus no orange lens on the integrated turn signal in the headlight assembly...
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Old Aug 8, 2009 | 10:56 PM
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dlinjuly2009, I looked at French GLK's yesterday after reading your post so I looked up the French MB site. I see the difference but I can't understand that it is such a subtle difference, why did MB ever bother?
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If you recall, the original plan was to offer two versions of the GLK, a Off Road version (three bar grill) and a Sport (two bar grill). Each one had different wheels, different interior trim, different grill, and different side skirts, think there were a couple other differences I can't think of right now. When it hit the U.S. market both versions got morphed into one.
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If you recall, the original plan was to offer two versions of the GLK, a Off Road version (three bar grill) and a Sport (two bar grill). Each one had different wheels, different interior trim, different grill, and different side skirts, think there were a couple other differences I can't think of right now. When it hit the U.S. market both versions got morphed into one.
Exactly, only it's vice versa, i have an offroad glk with 2 bars, sports have three.
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Anyone got a part number for the three slat grill?

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