2006 Mercedes ML350 Road Test
Eight years after wowing the Canadian automotive press as a rookie contender in the Automobile Journalist's Association (AJAC) of Canada Car of the Year awards, the Mercedes M-Class is set to do it again. Only this time, the 'car-like' luxury sport utility vehicle segment is no longer a novelty.In the years since the M-Class was named the AJAC's Car of the Year in 1998, the 'crossover' category, as it has now become known as, has exploded in size, with every manufacturer of note pumping out at least one model. The market segment proved so enticing as to prompt Porsche, till then a sports car company, to jack up its own heritage and design to produce the Cayenne.