2028 Mercedes-Benz VLE First Drive: Your 8K Living Room On Wheels Has Arrived

Benz’s electric "Grand Limousine" might just make minivans cool.

The concept of a living room on wheels is something of a modern cliché in the automotive world, a vision for a car so comfortable, well-appointed and ultimately luxurious that you'd be just as happy to spend hours there as you would lounging at home.

The problem is that most of those concepts, like the Cadillac InnerSpace or Mini Urbanaut, have depended on the availability of self-driving technology, something that still only exists in the limited circles of Waymo, Zoox and their ilk. We're still years away from you or I being able to buy a car that can drive itself unsupervised, but that isn't stopping Mercedes from releasing what could be the most compelling of the rolling living spaces.

It's called the VLE, and while it requires a human behind the wheel, passengers in the second row will...

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