The Mercedes-AMG GLB 35 is one of the weirdest, yet most surprising, cars I've driven in a while. Maybe ever, come to think of it. When it turned up, I just stood staring at it for a good while, thinking "what the hell is this?" Untypically for a modern SUV, its body is tall and boxy, but in AMG-spec it looks like someone's modded it: like it's been slammed. It hasn't, by the way. I've checked and it's no lower than the regular models, so it's all an optical illusion brought about by the extended sills and deeper front and rear aprons. It also looks under-wheeled, and that's something of a rarity in the current climate of ever-bigger alloys. The twin-blade, five-spoke AMG rims appear dwarfed by the height and length of the superstructure rising above them, yet that's a deception as well. The tyre side walls are thin for a car of this size, but the wheels are a not-inconsiderable 20-inches in diameter. All in all, it just looks, to me, ungainly - so I wasn't expecting it to drive like it does.