Drive Review: Why These Two Mercedes SUVs Belong in the Same Garage Robert Ross If any automaker could be compared to ice cream brand Baskin Robbins, it would be Mercedes-Benz. Like the former’s advertised offering of 31 flavors—one for each day of the month—Germany’s biggest car company offers 15 luxury model lines in North America, comprised of innumerable variants within each. Thus, there seems be a model for every type of customer. Nowhere is the hackneyed expression “horses for courses” more apposite than when looking at Benz’s big SUVs. In the beginning, sport utility vehicles were originally bred as beasts of burden with real jobs to do but, for decades now, the SUVs from the Silver Star have become fashion accessories, most never dipping a shoe into anything dirtier than asphalt.