Mercedes-Benz GLF Morphs Controversial Vision V Concept Into A Regular CGI Sedan

The German automaker has a lot of novelties this spring, but everyone is terrified about its plans to put into effect the controversial styling of a recent concept car. Well, almost everyone.
 

The premium carmaker started the spring of 2025 with a first look at the camouflaged prototype of the upcoming all-electric Mercedes-Benz GLC. The model with EQ Technology will be vastly different from what the EQC is set to replace, and continuing down that line of thought, it wasn’t surprising to see the all-new Mercedes CLA presented as the first modern Benz with a front trunk.
 
The all-new CLA is first out with the EQ Technology models, and the compromises include that awkward moment when the company’s smallest sedan weighs more than the largest – the CLA EV is heavier than a base S-Class! Moving away from EVs, the company also announced the US price of the 2025 Mercedes-AMG GT63 Pro, standing high at $197k (including destination), and also gave us the cool news that the 604-hp Mercedes-AMG E 53 station wagon is coming to America.
 
Last but not least, classic SUV enthusiasts probably fell in love with the looks rather than the name of the new Mercedes-Benz G-Class ‘Edition Stronger Than the 1980s.’ It’s a love letter to retro SUVs with plaid seats and 1980s green paint – all wrapped in thoroughly modern underpinnings. However, disaster struck for many the very same month when Mercedes introduced the Vision V concept toward the end of April.
 
Everyone attempted to persuade folks to ignore the way this minivan prototype looks, because it’s actually awesome and a sign of things to come from Mercedes-Benz. Unleashed at Auto Shanghai 2025 in China, it comes with all the bells and whistles you expect from an aftermarket luxury minivan. It also underpins the new scalable Van Electric Architecture (VAN.EA), which is set for introduction next year. Still, most folks didn’t care about that – they were busy running around crying their outrage at the sight of the exterior styling.
 
Not all of them, though, as it turns out. For example, here’s a member of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators dwelling across the parallel universes of vehicular CGI who decided to try to tame the wacky styling into something usable. So, meet Giorgi Tedoradze, the Georgia-based industrial designer better known as tedoradze.giorgi on social media, who now has a quick CGI idea regarding a new Mercedes-Benz sedan.
 
The pixel master has even found a suitable name for the idea – so here’s the 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLF, a potential crossover sedan with EQ Technology, if we are to judge by the closed-of Panamericana-style grille. The allure of the model is that of a Toyota Crown high-riding sedan, albeit with clear luxury perks – there are no vast areas of black plastic body cladding, and only the GLF moniker hints at the crossover nature of the ride. Cool or not?