ACKO Drive Awards 2026: The 2026 Luxury SUV Winner is the Mercedes-Benz G 580 EQ Tech

Luxury SUVs give you all the advantages of road presence and ride quality, along with extraordinary comfort for drivers and passengers. If you’re paying multiple crores for a car, it had better offer the best of the best. Our three nominees in the 2026 Luxury SUV category were the Mercedes-Benz G 580 EQ Tech, Mercedes-Maybach EQS, and Toyota Land Cruiser 300.

The Mercedes-Benz G 580 With EQ Technology is rather unique in terms of styling, positioning, and technology. It won our coveted 2026 Luxury SUV TOTM because it’s not only an elevated version of the iconic, chunky G-Wagen, but is also fully loaded with all the bells and whistles you could wish for. It’s comfortable for highway and city driving and of course off-roading as well. Individual motors for each wheel give you plenty of torque on demand. And of course the big USP – at the press of a button, the G-Wagen can spin around on its axis, up to 720 degrees. It’s a great party trick.

With the entire batch of 100 units sold out at launch time, the G 580 clearly shows that there’s an appetite for ₹3 crore cars in India.