#40YearsOfGClass: Mercedes-Benz set to open new G-Class Experience Centre in Graz.

To coincide with the landmark celebration for the G-Class, there is a very special present for G-Class fans: in the near future the G-Class Experience Center will be officially opened on the former Nittner aerodrome in Feldkirchen, around 15 kilometres to the south of Graz. It offers customers from all over the world the opportunity to test the extensive capabilities of the G-Class, to further develop their driving skills even in extreme terrain and to experience for themselves just what is behind the quality criterion "Schöckl proved". Not far from there on Graz's own mountain, the Schöckl, is the legendary test track on which the G-Class has to prove its worth on the course stretching for 5.6 kilometres with inclines of up to 60 percent and roll angles up to 40 percent, representing fiercely extreme situations.

Conditions are similarly challenging on the site of the new G-Class Experience Centre measuring 100,000 m2. Alongside a reception and presentation area there are four test modules in total: a natural and an artificially created off-road section, the G-Rock with various approach ramps with gradients up to 100 percent and an on-road section on the former taxiways. This is where drivers can push themselves to the limits of their abilities with maneuvers such as extreme braking and on skiing courses.

During the construction phase a great deal of care was taken to handle the existing conditions sensitively: the routing in the natural off-road area was adapted to the site in cooperation with experts to ensure that trees and biotopes worthy of protection remained intact.