Mercedes-Benz GLE: Monster of rock

 More than most of its breed, which is to say the full-on full-sized full-fat Sports Utility Vehicle, the Mercedes-Benz GLE proves an important point. Without the invention of the reversing camera and without a powerful modern turbo-diesel these cars wouldn’t exist. The invention of the reversing camera, innocuous useful little device as it is, is probably responsible for foreshortening the existence of human life on earth by a decade or two, simply by making these polluting three-tonne behemoths actually possible to live with. Without the camera they would not be manoeuvrable. Now, such is its technological accomplishment, this SUV will even, in most circumstances, obediently park itself.