The 2027 Facelift Made Your GLE Coupe Last Year's. LARTE Design Rewrites That

Mercedes-Benz has started selling the updated 2027 GLE Coupe: a new grille with an illuminated star, new headlights, taillights, bumpers and wheels. For anyone who bought a GLE Coupe in 2025 or 2026, that changes how their car is read on the road. LARTE Design's answer is WINNER for the Mercedes GLE Coupe: keep the car, give it a new face, in carbon certified by German TÜV.

The car is almost new and the mileage is low, yet next to the 2027 model it already reads as the previous version.

"Someone bought a car a year ago, the mileage is low, then the facelift comes out and it feels like the car has lost its value," says LARTE Design founder Alexej Janowski. "Perhaps that's partly true. But with an exterior design upgrade, including an original design, the car can stay on trend for several more years, and next to the new version it can look even more interesting."

This facelift is a visible one. SlashGear notes that most styling refreshes are fairly subtle and this one stands apart, and Edmunds calls it the second major facelift of the current GLE.

The GLE Coupe has always been a design-first purchase, and its design has always had a debate around it:

• KBB calls it sleeker and more stylish than the SUV.
• PistonHeads concedes the styling divides opinion while praising the execution.
• evo India found the 2024 facelift "largely the same".

"People buy this coupe for its design, and critics argue about it. We finish the argument," says Janowski.

WINNER fits the GLE Coupe C167 from 2023 to 2026, the AMG GLE 53 and AMG GLE 63 included:

• A carbon bonnet that redraws the front before anything else.
• Grille trim and a front splitter for a sharper, lower face.
• Mirror caps and front wing overlays that carry carbon along the flanks.
• A spoiler that stretches the coupe line.
• A rear diffuser with additional brake lights, and tail pipe tips depending on the exhaust configuration.

The programme comes with LR1 forged wheels, 23 inches, EU-certified.

Body kits are often linked with questionable parts and trouble at inspection. LARTE's entire kit, the bonnet included, is certified by German TÜV and was tested on the autobahn; documents are available on request. Engine, drivetrain and electronics stay exactly as Mercedes built them.

"Body kit parts have to be certified and technically approved," says Janowski. "This matters most for the bonnet, because pedestrian safety depends on it too."

• Visible Carbon: the classic, where the carbon alone carries the design.
• Gloss Black: the same design, painted.
• Customization Level 2: colour and design developed together, like Aqua Noir: aquamarine at the front flowing into black towards the rear, with a carbon bonnet. Any colour or combination is possible.

"An investment in design is an investment in the pleasure of walking up to the car every day," says Janowski.

Fitment is confirmed for each car by VIN and bumper configuration, and pricing is calculated per car. WINNER ships worldwide, with US customs clearance handled by LARTE. Send a photo of your GLE Coupe and the finish you have in mind: renders, timeline and pricing arrive within 24 hours.

Since 2012 LARTE Design has built carbon exteriors for Mercedes-AMG, Porsche, BMW, Lamborghini and Cadillac, all to the same fitment standard and material quality.

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