The X Class is the first premium pickup truck released by Mercedes Benz. It was primarily announced in 2015 and was finally unveiled in July 2017 at a world premier in  Cape Town and will be in the market late 2017. The X Class will have models X200 in petrol engine and X220d, X250d, X350d in diesel engines. It will be available in 6-speed manual transmission  and 7-speed automatic transmission.