Is this tuned Merc GLE Coupe the least tasteful car of 2015?

We all feared this day was coming.

Right from the moment Mercedes revealed its copycat X6, the Mercedes GLE Coupe (which isn’t really a coupe at all, but a GLE 4x4 with a hunchback), it was only a matter of time before a dubiously named tuning division got busy with the papier-mâché and spanners to create a modified version aimed squarely at the More Money Than Sense brigade.

Welcome, if your eyes can stand it, to the Lumma Design CLR G 800.

Where to start? Perhaps with the 24-inch wheels, squeezed into wider wheelarches under a slammed ride height, removing yet more of the ‘utility’ bit from Merc’s latest SUV.

Then again, what with those gargantuan new bumpers, a carbon fibre front splitter, and a rear diffuser element that’d embarrass a Le Mans prototype, it’s a safe assumption Lumma isn’t going after the Chipping Norton set’s chequebooks.

What else did the GLE Coupe really need? That’s right: more vents. And intakes. Before, there was a real lack of places for air to be funneled out of the front wing, or into the rear wheelarches.

Thankfully, Lumma Design’s sorted that, and, on the theme of gaping orifices, added a set of exhaust pipes that ought to have the Royal Navy checking for missing artillery pieces on its destroyers.

Of course, you’re imagining the Lumma redeems itself with a meaty 800bhp, as hinted by its name, no? Guess again.

Lumma Design claims it will offer a tuning package for the GLE 63 AMG’s 5.5-litre bi-turbo V8, so the show will be matched by some extra go. But, the modifications ‘only’ create, um, 650bhp – a hike of 73bhp from the factory spec. Pitiful.

No word how much any of this costs, mind, but we’re imagining Lumma accepts payment in the form of obscenities yelled by fellow motorists. One assumes that, riding around in your CLR G 800, you’ll receive plenty of feedback on your new SUV…