{"id":485688,"date":"2010-03-29T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/rendered-speculation-mercedes-benz-blk-to-take-on-bmw-x1-and-mi\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:27:00","slug":"rendered-speculation-mercedes-benz-blk-to-take-on-bmw-x1-and-mini-countryman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485688","title":{"rendered":"Rendered Speculation: Mercedes-Benz BLK to take on BMW X1 and Mini Countryman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/crossovers-cuvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">Crossover<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinsider.com\/2010\/03\/first-illustrations-of-the-upcoming-mercedes-benz-blk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/mercedes-benz-blk-illustration-new-x1-compeitor.jpg\" \/><\/a>Renderings have now turned up of a long-speculated compact crossover from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mercedes-benz\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>. The BLK, if it does become reality, is expected to be based on the B-Class compact. This small CUV\/SUV segment is a burgeoning one with the recent introductions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> X1 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mini\/\">Mini<\/a> Countryman along with the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/land-rover\/\">Land Rover<\/a> LRX. <\/p>\n<p><em>Autobild<\/em> is reporting that the BLK would be about 4.4 meters long, splitting the difference between the Countryman and X1. The rendering follows the recent Mercedes styling direction with with a more upright version of the grille similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/sls+amg\">SLS AMG<\/a> and and the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/02\/geneva-2010-mercedes-benz-f-800-style-concept-ladels-on-the-tec\/\">F800 concept<\/a>. We wouldn&#8217;t expect to see the BLK arrive until later in 2011 or perhaps 2012, following the new B-Class, although a concept will probably show up sooner. <\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autobild.de\/artikel\/mercedes-vorschau-van-und-suv_1146192.html\">Autobild<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinsider.com\/2010\/03\/first-illustrations-of-the-upcoming-mercedes-benz-blk\/\">BenzInsider<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/rendered-speculation-mercedes-benz-blk-to-take-on-bmw-x1-and-mi\/\">Rendered Speculation: Mercedes-Benz BLK to take on BMW X1 and Mini Countryman<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:27:00 EST.  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The BLK, if it does become reality, is expected to be based on the B-Class compact. This small CUV\/SUV segment is a burgeoning one with the recent introductions of the BMW X1 and Mini Countryman along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}