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Look-a-like: Mercedes-Benz EQC and…

OK, I know I promised to catch up on US Sales figures (and I will!), but I just had to get this one off my chest because it’s been bothering me for a while. The new EQC is a good-looking car by all means, if a bit conservative, but its job goes beyond just being a good-looking car on its own – it’s to usher a new identity for Mercedes-Benz’s EQ electric sub-brand. Leading this new identity, literally and figuratively, is a new grille design, and that is the one piece that M-B just had to get right from the very beginning. Which is why it’s disappointing that the end-result looks, from the front at least, so much like the US-market Chevrolet Equinox…