Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Cisco Live 2018, brought to you by Cisco, NetApp, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back, everyone. We're here live in the Cisco DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2018, it's theCUBE's exclusive coverage. I'm Cisco Live, I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. I'm here with Susie Wee, who's the CTO and vice president at Cisco. This is her baby DevNet, the fastest growing developer program in Cisco history, only four years old. Welcome to theCUBE, good to see you again. Good to see you, I too. I made that stat, I was only four years old. So DevNet, obviously just for color commentary, really successful developer program, only in its fourth year or so for Cisco. But it's really changing the face of Cisco. It's showing that a new collaboration, a new co-development, a new developer framework is being built on top of networks, and it's on a collision course with cloud native. Okay, this is a great path for network engineers. It really changed the show of lives, so congratulations. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, and why do you say collision course? There's like a whole new paradigm, right? And it's pretty amazing, it's pretty amazing. Well, some of the things that we've been seeing here, obviously CCIEs are 25 years of excellence and stats was out here. The keynote from the CEO, Chuck Robbins, talks about an old way and new way. Developers are clearly in the driver's seat here, and network engineers, Cisco partners, customers, technical folks, and engineers, they're at the keys to the kingdom, and you introduced a concept called network DevOps. Yes. Okay, a few years ago when we were the first out of theCUBE, where is that now? Where is network DevOps now? What's the vibe internally? Is there full acceptance to it? Is there embracing it?  The network is going to be programmable. The network is going to have APIs.  The buzz was SDN. You know, the buzz was SDN, SDN was open flow. It was separation of control plane from data plane, but it was still kind of research. And what we knew is like, it wouldn't become real until the people who are building and operating the world's networks were ready to adopt it. And so at first, of course, it was like there were the people who were like, okay, this network thing, this programmability is going to come to the network, but what can we do there? And since then, like people have jumped in. They've like really gotten in and like here at this Cisco Live, what we're seeing is that people are ready to code. And so the concept of I'm a networker, now their software built into my entire network programming portfolio. How do I build the skills? I'm a developer. And the networkers are getting comfortable with understanding that they need to code, they need to understand these skills. But one thing that we did is we actually separated out like the definition of developer. You know? You guys done a good job of really defining a path for the network engineer who can extend their skillset and solve network problems, be creative, and also do great business outcome-oriented things. So I want you to take a minute to explain the DevNet story because you guys just didn't throw a PowerPoint at this.  So take us through the DevNet story and what's happening this year in the momentum. Take us through that little journey. Yeah, so the story was like back in actually 2013, Cisco was saying, hey, we're going to get into software. We're doing software. We have a software strategy. And all of that is fantastic. And there, but the thing that was missing was like, hey, we need an ecosystem. Like the reason you do software is to have an ecosystem. And in order to have an ecosystem, you want people to build upon your stuff. You need to expose your APIs. It doesn't happen by itself. You need to have a developer program so that you can actually really let people use all of that and partake in the ecosystem.  And that was in 2014. And then in 2014, then we said, okay, so now we got the okay to start a developer program for Cisco. But it's still not a sure shot that it would work. And then we said, our dream is to have a developer conference at Cisco Live. And so we wanted to have that developer conference at Cisco Live. And then three months later, we had it. And we're like, okay, 24 hour hackathon, deep dive API sessions, but would the people come, would they be ready? And then they came. Like they came, it was packed. It was just like wall to wall of people who are excited to learn about software. So now you go and then you fast forward, four years, and now we just hit 500,000 developers. 500,000 people have registered for DevNet. And you can be like, well, what does that mean? Like it's, we have half a million developers. Is that a real number? Well, my team kept scrubbing the database. Like so like we had hit 400,000 and then our numbers got lower. And I was like, come on guys, stop it. And they're like, no, no, no, we have to scrub it.  And then finally we got it up and we've grown it. It basically is just 500,000 registered developers. And what that means is like now we have a community. We have a community of people who are getting up on network APIs. We have a community of people who can develop. And once you do that, you hit this completely different inflection point where at first our mission was just to help networkers be developers, to help the app developers understand that the network has APIs and to do stuff there. That's still our goal to enable developers. But now we have a community. What we can do is really catalyze that community and the business and impact. Yes, Susie, first of all, congratulations. It's been so much fun to be here in the DevNet zone. It'd been a few years since I'd been to Cisco Live.  They're doing all sorts of stuff.  It's been talked about a lot. But we've seen many infrastructure companies try. They create little developer conferences. They bring in speakers. They'll get some momentum. And then after a year or two, it kind of fizzles out. Yes. Give us a little bit behind the scenes as to, you know, is it because, you know, networking people are worried about their jobs and they're getting on board?  But give us some of the reasons why this has succeeded when so many others have kind of come and gone. Yeah. Well, I mean, we're very fortunate, you know, that we've kind of executed in a way that it has continued to be here. We know that's really hard to do. It takes executive support. It takes the troops. It takes fighting antibodies and kind of all of that kind of stuff. But I think like the key has been that we've been working with the community. When we had that first DevNet zone, that first developer conference at Cisco Live four years ago, people came. And that told Cisco something, right? And then as we've continued to build it out, we've actually been not doing it as a silo within Cisco. We've been doing it with our sales organization, with our partner organization. We've been doing it with our ecosystem and our partners out there. And we've just continuously been doing it based on what their needs are. And Susie, I love that because there's some of the events I saw. They were like, well, the developers this special unicorn and we're going to have this special area. It's velvet rope. We're going to treat them really well. But this is the first thing you see when you come in. You're very approachable. The line I've heard from your team is we are going to meet them where they are. There are no, you know, gosh, you know, I haven't touched programming in 20 years. No, no, no, you're fine. You're good, come on in. I'm not sure if I really can, I don't want to program. Well, do you not program? You're coding. So, I think that's part of the success is these people, you know, this is their careers and you're giving them that path forward. It is. And like when we look at like developer programs, like you think it would be easy to start a developer program, but there's no formula for it, you know? And when we did it for Cisco, like as we've grown this, it depends on the products that we have. It depends on the community that we have, the types of solutions, what our customers want. And basically what happens is we did have a core set of networkers who are scared. And we, instead of making DevNet like the elite place for the elite developers, we said it is the place to bring in the community. We're going to be welcoming. We're bringing them in on the journey because they're the ones who need to be there. And so we've really tried this more, you know, open approach. And if you look at Cisco's community of networkers, they're amazing. Like they are developing and installing and operating networks around the world in every country. They've been dedicated, but they are scared of that transition to software and programmability. And they've been dedicated to us. We're dedicated to them getting to that next level. Did a good job of bringing a tribe kind of mentality and co-development, co-creation. People are learning, so you have first-time learners kicking the tires on coding and growing. And experts, so Cisco champions coming in, powerhouse developers. Not Cisco employees, they're Cisco champions. And so the nice balance, so that's a good sign of success. And you're right, that's key because it's not just develop, just beginners. I mean, first of all, there is a very large stage of new people who are just coming in and then wanting to get started. And that's awesome. And in addition, very advanced folks who are just the most advanced developer you'd find who also has networking expertise. And then, of course, the app developers. We're talking to app developers and cloud developers and DevOps pros, and they're coming in as well. Yeah, and Susie, you bring up a great point because one of the challenges when you have the cool new innovation stuff is the business is like, well, how does that connect back? So help connect the dots. We heard Chuck Robbins on stage. Not only was it just DevNet and 500,000, but the new products that are coming out just tie right into it. It's crazy, like, yeah, it's awesome because what happens is programmability. Cisco is building programmability into our entire portfolio. It's not that we have one product that has APIs. I mean, that's where we were a few years ago, but now we look our enterprise networking products for the data center, for service provider, for wireless. All of those products are programmable. Our security products are programmable. IoT collaboration, our entire portfolio is now programmable, so it gives you this whole portfolio of programmability to play with, and that cross-domain, who covers that many domains? And that's really powerful. When we take a look at the programmability, it was for the network devices themselves. Those have ASICs that are programmable, so if there's a new protocol that comes up to handle IoT things, we can actually reprogram the ASICs to get that going at line rates. You can do on-board application hosting on those network devices. We have controller levels, you can hit the network, and then now you have analytics and insights that you can do to pull out information from the network and then be able to operate at that level as well. So strategic advantage, architecturally, for Cisco, with certainly in the network side and scaling up into the stack with Kubernetes and Isti, we saw Google on stage giving an indicator of where it's going. I want to ask you about the culture question for DevNet. Obviously, people are fascinated with the success of DevNet. We've been great to follow the success through your journey and being part of it, but for the folks that are now seeing the success and want to join, what can they expect if I join the DevNet mission? What's the expectation? What's going to be the vibe? What would you share to someone watching that's going to jump in and join the journey? What can they expect? Well, I think that, first of all, it's going to be very welcoming. Like, they're going to feel welcome and I'm just proud of my team because people come in and they actually say, wow, sometimes you go to developer conferences and it's a little bit intimidating. And yeah, you might be intimidated, but here you're going to feel welcome because we really want things to happen. And then there's going to be this kind of intrigue, like in terms of what you can build because what we're building is different. It's not a well-known area. Like, everyone knows how to build apps for a mobile device. People don't know how to build applications for programmable infrastructure. Like the fact that, hey, your wireless access points now give you location and proximity information, I can write an indoor location app. So it's simple, but it's awesome. Connect a camera to it. It's amazing, right? And then what happens is, like, as you're doing that, you have like, yeah, connect a camera. You're like, put a PlayStation into a hospital. You know, the children's hospital of LA came and spoke and they were talking about, like, the business problem. They had a patient who was very sick, a young boy, and his wish was to have PlayStation so he could play it. And then they had to go to their networkers because you don't put playstations in hospitals. And you had to make that happen. And intent-based networking lets you make that wish and then activate that in the network. That's now a programmable infrastructure. So the types of problems that you can solve are different, it's amazing. You're creating a new first-generation green field of networked apps. Yes. Like what iPhone did for mobile apps, you guys are doing for networks. That's right, that's right. That's awesome, it's super cool. Programmable infrastructure, all DevOps, kind of geeky stuff. For the next steps, as you guys are now at the beginning of the next inflection point, what are you guys focused on? What's happening with the team? What's happening with some of the initiatives you're doing? Demos get better and better. The training classes are still going on. What's your focus? So what some of the things that are happening now, so we've hit this milestone of half a million developers, but what does that mean? What that means is that we have half a million people who can use network APIs. What that means also is that they're contributing code. So it's no longer just, here, I'm going to help you use your API, but now it's also like they're contributors back. And what we're doing is we're actually embracing that and making that part of the innovation model for networking. So you're not just taking Cisco's platforms and the innovation there, which is, of course, growing tremendously, but now you can also add in innovation by the community. And I know it's a straightforward concept for software. It's not a straightforward concept for networking and infrastructure. Open source ethos. Exactly. To code sharing, code contributing. Exactly. And what we're something that we've released is code exchange, DevNet code exchange. And what it is is just a list of curated software, software that's out on GitHub, that works for our platforms. But the thing that developers are always like, okay, there's a lot of software out there, which one should I use? And then basically giving them the curated list of here's the stuff that you can use. So Susie, it's been fun to watch the transformation of Cisco overall. As we look at, before we used to measure, in boxes and ports, what's the measurement internally? When you talk about saying, okay, how are we doing on our journey to become a software company? Give us a little insight as to internally how Cisco measures that. The way that we measure that now is we're talking to our customers and our partners and their adoption of APIs, of programmability, their ability to execute on that and to be successful in this business. And so it's really an external looking view. So it's all just like, okay, how much do they get it? How much can they use it? How much are they building the skills? So it's really looking at the success of the community and being able to build the skills and use these products and build solutions with them. Susie, congratulations on a continuing growing, hitting a major milestone, 500,000 developers, half a million developers. That's a real community. It's just the beginning now, it's a start line. It's a start line, it is. What's the finish line? It's another start line. It is a start line, it's absolutely the start line. And you guys had a great event last night at the Mango Party, Mango Cafe. Talk about that, you had a celebration. Turns out a lot of people showed up, it was supposed to be a little private party. It was a little private party, yeah. So we just wanted to thank the team and thank our community because quite honestly, to get to this half a million, it wasn't just the people who worked for me who got it there. It's the fact that there's, of course, our team who's very dedicated to that, but then it's our partners. It's even you guys, right? It's our partners who have like, I understand this mission, I'm going to jump in, I'm going to help it happen. It's our systems engineers, it's our partners, it's our innovation folks. It's people from the community who understand the mission and have joined in to push it forward.  You guys are there. The people are calling it kind of the best one. It's really just appreciation for our community at what they've done to get it there. Because it's not us, it's our system. This is the open ethos, this is the open ethos. Cisco becoming open. What's it like to be in the inside and seeing Cisco open up like this? It's, I mean, it's amazing. And what's amazing is like when I started DevNet, you think like, okay, I'm going to run a developer program. The thing that surprises me is just how hurtful it is to so many people. Like people, they find a path. They see a new opportunity. They figure out a new way they want to advance their businesses and their careers. And it's like all heart. And that's how it grew. Like with the resources, it's just because people who had felt this heart and this connection and this mission and drive, they're taking it to the next level. So it's amazing. Like open-source software, people love to be part of a great project. It is. And DevNet certainly is. And DevNet Create, don't forget, DevNet Create is your other event that brings the cloud native world with the networking world together. Great project. And you were with us at DevNet Create and that's where it's this mixing of communities of like the app developers with the networkers who are getting out there. And what's funny is, we didn't know how those communities would interact and they're mixing. Like they're getting it. They're just like, okay, I have this location software. I need to work together with the guys who are going to install the network and then we can make this amazing experience. And they're mixing. And when they do it, the right thing's happening. Very complimentary. There's love going about. App developers love the network guys to take care of the network. And the network guys love the app guys to take care of the apps. Exactly. It's a win-win. Great stuff. Congratulations. Again, a new way to program. Just like we saw the iPhone creating the apps, our networking now is programmable. We expect to see a lot of great creativity, new problems, new things being created. And that's an opportunity for all. We're here at theCUBE bringing you all the action from the DevNet Zone of Cisco Live, more live coverage day three. Stay with us. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. We'll be right back.


Hello there, it's Mr. P, on today's lesson we're going to look at an introduction to genre. So let's get started. What does genre mean? According to Merriam-Webster, it is a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content. Thus in literature, it is another word for different types of story. Where does this word come from? Well, it comes straight from French, a language based on Latin. It is closely related to genus. Both words contain the G-E-N root because they indicate that everything in a particular category, genre or a genus, belongs to the same family, and thus has the same origins. So the main genres of literature would include novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. But within the category of novels, we could also say that detective novels, sci-fi novels, romance novels, and young adult novels are separate genres. So let's look at its function. Different genres have different roles. For example, fiction and dramatic genres help students and writers learn and improve their communication skills. A poetic genre, on the other hand, enhances imaginative and emotional power of the readers. Non-fictional tasks and essays help readers develop analytical and persuasive capabilities. However, the major function of genre is to establish a code of behavior between the writers and audience, and keep the readers informed about the topics discussed or the themes presented. Now let's take a look at genre subcategories, examples. The Martians had been repulsed. They were not invulnerable. They had retreated to their triangle of cylinders again, in the circle about walking. Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich. All together, 116 were in position or being hastily placed, chiefly covering London. Never before in England had there been such a vast or rapid concentration of military material. Oh my god, what is that? The genre here is science fiction, clues, Martians. And it's an extract of the War of the Worlds. Let's take a look at another extract. On glancing over my notes of the 70 odd cases in which I have, during the last eight years, studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic. A large number merely strange, but none commonplace. For working as he did, rather for the love of his art, than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend toward the unusual, and even the fantastic. And yes, we have detective, and so the genre is a detective fiction. The clues, well, Sherlock Holmes, cases and investigation. This extract is taken from the Speckled Ben. She saw Mr. Darcy walk into the room. In a hurry manner, he immediately began an inquiry after her health. He sat down for a few moments and then, getting up, walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but said not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus begun. In vain I have struggled. I will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, collared, doubted, and was silent. Yes, here we have a romantic fiction. The clues are obvious, feelings ardently admire love. This is an extract from Pride and Prejudice. So let's take a look at the fourth extract now. Mr. Ollivander moved closer to Harry. Harry wished he would blink. Those silvery eyes were a bit creepy. Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches pliable, a little more power, and excellent for transfiguration. Well, I say your father favored it. It's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course. Yes, Harry Potter, of course. And the genre here is fantasy fiction. The clues, wand, transfiguration, wizard. And yes, that's an extract from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Let's take a look at the next extract. Extract number five. All at once the wolves began to howl, as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them. Just then a heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon so that we were again in darkness. Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruin castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky. Oh, that's Dracula! Yes, the genre here is Gothic fiction. The clues, wolves, howled, moonlight, darkness, ruin castle. This is an extract from Bram Stalker's Dracula. Let's look at extract number six now. Suddenly, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side and ran straight on the stockade. The borders swarmed over the fence like monkeys. Squire and gray fire again and yet again. Three men fell, one forward seen to the enclosure, two back on the outside. But of these, one was evidently more frightened than hurt, for he was on his feet again in a crack and instantly disappeared among the trees. Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made good their footing inside our fences, but from the shelter of the woods, seven or eight men, each evidently supplied with several musket, kept up a hot dough useless fire on the log house. At the same moment, another pirate grasped Hunter's musket by the muscle, stretched it from his hand, blacked it through the loophole and with one stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the floor. Oops, yes, pirates! The genre here is adventure fiction. Clues, pirates, musket, and the book here is treasure island. Now is your turn. Write a paragraph explaining what your favorite genre is and why. Try to use some vocabulary associated with that particular genre. That's it for today. Thank you for watching. 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So we've run payroll now. We did so in a prior presentation and we've run in essence two months of payroll at this point in time. Let's just give a quick recap of the journal entry that happens when we enter the payroll into the system. And before we do that, let's take a quick look at the flow chart of what happens in the payroll cycle. Remember that payroll is just like a vendor cycle typically. If it wasn't for all the the laws and taxes and withholdings, we would just be paying someone and it would be like a vendor activity and we'd have wages expense and checking account would go down. But because there's so much stuff we have to track, including withholdings and taxes, it's got its own world here. It's its own thing, it's its own specialization. And so therefore we could track the time, meaning if they're on an hourly basis, we need to know how much time is going to be entered to process the paychecks. But you could do that outside of the system and you might be paying someone's salary and the time could also be used in a job cost system to create invoices. Then of course, we got to turn on the payroll, set up the payroll so we can process the payroll, which we will do periodically, typically, weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly or monthly. We are doing it monthly for the purpose of our practice problem. This is where we create multiple payroll checks, a payroll check per employee that will be like any other kind of check form, but specially designated as a check form in the transaction detail report so we can distinguish it from other check forms or bill payment check forms, for example, and so on. We will also also be making withholdings when we do this as well. That will increase a liability account and we'll also have our portion of the taxes, which will increase the liability account and record an expense there. Now we're in this component where we want to pay the liabilities that have been accumulated. So we took some money, in theory, this is what happened. In theory, we took some money from our employees and we're going to pay it on their behalf to the government. So remember, you can kind of think of it as though we gave it to the employees and then they gave it back to us, this means Social Security, Medicare, Federal Income Tax, so that we can pay to the government on their behalf. In actuality, the government forced us not to give it to them at all. We don't want to get their hands on it, the government says, don't let the employee touch it. So and we're supposed to give it directly to the government. And then of course, we had our payroll taxes that we have to pay over and above. That's what the liability has accumulated at this point. We need to pay that. Notice that this whole process has nothing to do in essence with the payroll reporting forms because we're paying the taxes not when we file the reporting forms, but just in the normal process. And then the informational forms that are reporting forms are the quarterly 941s, the 940 at the end of the year, the W-2s and the W-3s, which will summarize this whole process, basically taxable payroll, the withholdings and whatnot and compare that to what we actually paid and so on.


What is up, you guys? I'll go back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm GoPony, as a new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we're in the brand new 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLA-250 courtesy of Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown in Hagerstown, Maryland, for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so we are in this one today because this actually gets decent MPGs for an SUV. Not only that, this is a Mercedes-Benz SUV that starts at under $40,000. So that is pretty exciting as well. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. So essentially there are two different configurations for the GLA-250. You got the front wheel drive set up, starting at $37,500. That's excellent there. And the formatic all-wheel drive starting at $39,500 then. But regardless of which configuration that you go with, the power plant on the GLA-250 will be the same. Powering this little beast is a two-liter turbocharged inline four cylinder, 221 horsepower, 5,500 RPM, 258 pound-feet of torque coming in at 1,800 RPM. Power sent to front wheels or all wheels through an eight-speed dual clutch. I love that with paddle shifters, which we will be testing out here in a little bit. Zero to 60 time is gonna differ amongst those two configurations. 6.8 seconds for the front wheel drive, 6.6 then for the all-wheel drive with MPG numbers coming in at 24 city, 34 on the highway for the front wheel drive. That's very impressive. Then 23 in the city, 32 on the highway. Still impressive for an all-wheel drive SUV. That's pretty cool, taking premium on LED fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration or paddle shifter test here in the GLA, wanted to mention to you guys the drive modes. There's actually a dynamic button that stands for Dynamic Select. Through that you're gonna be able to select between Eco, Comfort, Sport, Off-Road and Individual, adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, steering sensitivity, the Eco Start-Stop system. And actually with that Off-Road mode, that actually sets you up with a 50-50 torque split for the ultimate traction off-roading. So that's pretty cool. And actually in individual mode, you can set it to manual shifting through the paddle shifters, which is pretty cool as well. So now we've got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's put it in a sport driving mode here. Let's find a straightaway and let's put the acceleration and paddle shifters here to the test to see how quickly we can get this thing up to speed and let's see how quickly these paddle shifters are going to react to us here. All right, here we go. We are in first gear. Hang on. First gear. Go, baby. Whoa, six quick. Paddle shifters are instantaneous. That was nice. All right, so as expected with the dual clutch, typically you're gonna get that insanely quick paddle shifter, so it's the least sent you to the next gear. I absolutely love that. If you wanted to have fun with the paddle shifters, you could certainly do so in the GLA. That was freaking amazing. Not only that, this thing is insanely quick as well. This thing instantly threw my head in the back, so definitely enough to merge you onto the highway, not gonna have any issues here whatsoever. This thing is fine, especially for a small SUV. This thing is dang fun, but anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important, so upfront you will find 12.6 inch ventilated front discs in the back, 11.6 inch solid rear discs. As far as that six easier stopping distance goes, that is going to commit a pretty impressive 120 feet, actually. Let me go ahead and set the brakes real quick. Yeah, that's on the firm side of things. I absolutely love that. So, firmer braking feels, I always prefer, because it feels like it instantly brings you to a stop. There's so many SUVs out there that give you soft braking feels, or there's a delay to the braking, like a Chevy Tahoe or a Chevy Suburban, something like that. So, I absolutely love the braking feel on the GLA250 without a doubt. Then touching on suspension and handling up front, you're going to get an independent McPherson strut front suspension in the back independent four-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars. As far as ride quality goes, it's been perfectly fine on my short test drive here today, and let me get reserve fuel off the gauges there. So yeah, it's been perfectly fine on my short test drive here today. Hagerstown's roads are pretty impressive right now. So, I will say that, but still, ride quality is as you would expect the Mercedes-Benz to ride like. I'll just give you that. As far as steering feel goes, it is an instantly noticeable difference depending upon the drive mode that you put it in. Like I said, it is a heavier feel to it when you put it in the sport driving mode, and then when you take it out, put it back in comfort, it instantly loosens up the steering. So, it's kind of something for everybody. Having said that, it's not as heavy as the GLA250. I can say that because I literally just got the driving that one. But honestly, it's as you would expect an SUV to feel like. So, it's perfectly fine for this thing. Touching on cabin noise, I'm going 43 miles per hour right now. It isn't a whole lot of exterior wind noises, a slight bit of road noise, but it's not that bad. It's nothing that would bother me. So, 100% on point there. Touching on visibility, smaller SUV. Definitely not going to have any issues there. So, that is also 100% on point. I definitely like that. And also, pertaining to visibility, rain sensing windshield wipers do come standard across the board. So, that's going to assist with forward visibility. Essentially, whenever the GLA detects an account of mist or rainfall, it's going to automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you. So, just one last thing you got to worry about there. So, it's definitely going to be convenient as well. But, that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review, guys. So, now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLA 250. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLA 250 finished in iridium silver metallic, which by the way is a $750 paint option. But, it looks dang good on this thing. And as always, let's go ahead and start up front on the GLA. Horizontal aluminum trim will come standard across the board. Of course, what you guys are looking at. Matte black grille design is going to come standard as well. Also, what we are looking at right now, and I want to specify that because if you were to go with one of those AMG line packages, you will get a diamond block front grille finished in gloss black for the black version of one of those AMG line packages because there are two of them and then finished in chrome for the other version. So, the chrome finish is going to go for $2,340. Then the black version is going to give you $2,740. But, that will give you gloss black accents surrounding this thing as opposed to the chrome. And, of course, you get plenty more than just a front grille with either of those AMG line packages as well, including a completely reworked front fascia going along with that. So, I also should mention that. Aluminum trim found on that front lip. You guys can see that at the very bottom there. You do have LED fog lights down below. They definitely look good as well. Illuminated star is available for $450. I have seen that on Mercedes before. That definitely always looks very good. And, of course, LED headlights to the sides. They do come standard with LED daytime running lights and the automatic feature. But, didn't want to mention there is an exterior lighting package that goes for $900. That gives you adaptive front lighting, meaning when you're going around a bend at night, those headlights are going to swivel based on the direction of your steering angle. Better help illuminate when it's around that bend. So, that's definitely very nice. And, adaptive high beams as well. So, if you have your high beams on at night and a sense of the vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim those back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bump it then back up to high beams. So, it's definitely a very convenient feature there as well. But, that pretty much rounds out the front end of the GLA. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. All right, so, but now, we are around to the side of the GLA here. Aluminum roof rails do come standard for all trims or all configurations across the board. Rear privacy glass also coming standard along with chrome windows surrounds. Taking a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored power adjustable side mirrors. They will be heated with LED integrated turd signals then as well. And, continuing on with that chrome theme, you're actually going to find some chrome trim accent found on the side skirts down below there. And, actually, there's some chrome accent found on the door handles then as well. So, overall, a lot of chrome trim accents.  So, I did want to mention that as well. But, then, taking a look at the wheel configurations, there, of course, are several of them. For example, 18 inch double five spoke alloys do come standard. That's what we got here today. 19 and 20 inch designs available though. So, I did want to also mention that in the AMG line packages. They will give you 19 inch AMG specific alloys. So, that is going to be there for you as well. But, that pretty much rounds out the side profile. This one, let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. So, now, since we are around to the back of this one, all the way to the top, there is no shark fin antenna. So, I wanted to mention that because it is a very clean look. Absolutely love that rear spoiler, though, with an integrated brake light just below that. Rear window wiper, affixiated to the rear glass, of course. LED tail lights will come standard for all configurations across the board. You will find some chrome accenting on the bottom portion of that rear bumper as well. And, of course, just below it all, as I get into the weeds here, the tall grass, you will find integrated dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips. So, very awesome look on this thing. But, as always, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next, as always here, is that exhaust clip. All right, so, now, since we are around to the back of the GLA, manual tailgate will come standard. Power tailgate is going to be optional. There are a few different ways to go ahead and open it up. There is a button on the key fob itself. There is a button on the tailgate itself. And, there is a button on the driver's side door, then, as well. But, once opened up, cargo capacity behind that second row comes in at an even 19 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, there is a 40-20-40 split, meaning the rear seats do fall down pretty darn flat, bumping that up to 50.5 cubic feet. There is a cargo cover that comes standard. There's some cargo lighting back there. There are chrome-plated tie-down anchors, which is pretty cool to see. Side pockets with some netted storage. I thought that was pretty cool as well. There is also an elastic strap that kind of holds objects in place back there, so I liked that. Grocer bag hooks do come standard. There is a 12-volt power outlet in the back on the driver's side back there.  So, definitely a lot going on in the cargo area there. But, so then, making our way to the rear legroom, that is going to commit at an even 38 inches. So, for reference, I'm an even six-feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. Do you want to mention though, rear center armrest with cup holders is going to be optional. We actually don't have that with us here today. Rear ventilation, though, does come standard. There's a little bit of storage underneath of that rear ventilation as well. Dual phone charging ports also coming standard, and then there is a 115-volt power outlet that is going to be optional that we do have here today. So, that is pretty darn cool and something you don't always find in SUVs. So, I liked that. Then, making our way up to the front seats, eight-way power driver's seat with a four-way power lumbar does come standard. Memory settings for both driver and passenger seats usually don't get that. It's usually just for the driver. So, it's for up to three different positions. Again, for both the driver and the passenger. So, I absolutely love that. MBtex upholstery is going to be the standard finish on the seating. Leather seating, though, is available for $1,450 if you wanted to go that route. Heated front seats go for $500. Heated and ventilated front seats go for $950. Then, multi-contour front seats go for $760. And that's kind of where the side bolsters better hold you in place around the turn. So, big friend of those. Now, ultimately, seating was plenty comfortable, mainly because the lumbar support is pretty darn adjustable. So, no issues with finding my perfect driving position in the GLA. Then, take a look at the steering wheel. It's tilt-end telescoping. It is leather-wrapped. And if you wanted a heated steering wheel, simply add an additional $250 to the mix there. Then, make our way through the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. All of your buttons are located on one side of the key with a nice little matte silver finish on the surrounds there. Lock-on-lock and the button to pop the rear tailgate. But it is all keyless entry with a push button start. So, in this case, all I'm going to do here is simply put my front of the brake and press that black engine start button located just to the left of the air vents there. And so, once started up, there's going to be two different sizes for the digital gauge cluster. You've got a seven-inch digital gauge cluster and a 10 and a quarter-inch digital gauge cluster which comes on the premium package, which goes for $1,850. So, whichever gauge setup that you go with, it's going to be mirrored for the infotainment screen. So, you get seven-inch gauges. You get a seven-inch infotainment screen and vice versa, of course. So, gauges are done very, very well, by the way. My very favorite part of the gauges is if you scroll all the way to the right, there's actually designs and display settings where you can choose between a classic look, sport look, progressive look, and understated, completely changing the look of the gauges, completely changing the colors of the gauges. So, definitely very customizable and pretty much everything you can possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges. That's the best part about digital gauges is there's so many different looks you can really choose to display up here, including, if you go with the adventure theme, it actually shows you your elevation on the right-hand side like it is showing me right now. So, I absolutely love that. But now, let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Dual-pane Panorama Roof goes for $1,500. We do not have that option with us here today. Universal CrowdStore opener goes for $280. That's going to be found just below the Frameless Rearview Mirror. So, I definitely like that. Wireless Phone Charger goes for $200. This is going to be located just in front of the cup holders if you get it. Dual Zone Climbing Control is going to come standard. 64 colors of ambient lighting go for $310. And that is one I absolutely love. Mercedes-Benz does ambient lighting better than everyone else because it's so much thicker and brighter than most other manufacturers out there. So, huge fan of that. And they're surrounding the air vents too, which is super cool. But Wood Trim available in a matte kind of finish, although I do like the plastic finish that we have here today. It's got that carbon fiber weave-ish look, although it's not authentic carbon fiber, but it still looks good in my personal opinion. Just in front of the cup holders, we've got a little bit of rubberized storage in our case. There's a phone charger port, 12-volt power outlet. Of course, you'll dual cup holders. You've got your touch pad controller and buttons for the infotainment screen. I'll get to that in a second. And within the center armrest, decent amount of storage with the phone charging port actually in there as well. So, overall, everything is finished pretty darn nicely. I like the white contrast stitching found on the doors there as well. But now, let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen. Because like I said, it's either going to be a seven-inch infotainment screen or a 10 and a quarter inch infotainment screen with that premium package. So, you can adjust that through touch screen. It is a touch screen or the touch pad controller. Like I said, that's pretty darn easy when you're driving or you could simply say, hey, Mercedes. How can I help? Change the ambient lighting color to green. Okay, I'm changing the color. That's so cool. And she did it. That's sticking awesome. I love that. Anyways, I can imagine though, if my kids were sitting in the back, they would probably be saying change the color to every single color available. So, let me try something real quick. Hey Mercedes. How may I help you? Change the ambient lighting color to magenta. I'm turning on the ambient light. Magenta, magenta. All right, so that didn't work. I guess it's just the basic colors. But still, that is pretty cool. You could change the color by saying, you know, I'm not going to say it again. Of course you could check out your different themes up there as well as I was alluding to. That's going to be just below everything. And each theme changes basically everything from the ambient lighting colors to some different gauge readouts. So there's a bunch of adjustments that can happen with those different themes. So I'm a big fan of that. Also, of course, your radio information. So when it comes to the sound systems, there's two of them. There's going to be a six speaker sound system that comes standard. That's what we got today. But also a 12 speaker Bermester sound system with 590 watts. It goes for $850 if you wanted that option. So having said that, what do you got to say? Let's go ahead and find a radio station here. Let's turn on the radio. So we've got playing today. And let's test out the clarity of this one. Honestly, that wasn't that bad. I don't remember it being that good in the past, but you could feel a little bit of bass in there. I mean, again, we're talking six speakers in an SUV, but there's a decent amount of bass, decent amount of clarity. Honestly, that system wasn't that bad. I personally would be perfectly fine with that. But anyways, last thing I want to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the GLA in reverse, you will find a rear view camera, very high definition rear view camera coming standard across the board. Couple of different views there. You will get a surround view monitor if you go with the parking assistance package. By the way, that goes for $1,090, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so to start, front side, side curtain airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags up front as well.  And then there is a driver assistance package. It goes for $1,700. And that gives you all of the advanced safety. That includes adaptive cruise control, active steering assist, evasive steering assist, reverse automatic braking, emergency stop assist, speed limit recognition, lane keep assist, lane change assist, and group-based speed adaptation as well. So when it comes to my final thoughts here of the GLA, first off, that last safety package I just rambled off, that should come standard. These are safety features that typically will come standard on brands like Hyundai and Toyota and Kia, I know just for example. All of that comes standard with those. So you would think it would come standard on a luxury manufacturer like Mercedes-Benz as well. Also, they'll love the ambient lighting in this thing. Mercedes-Benz, like I always say, does ambient lighting better than any other manufacturer in existence. So I'm definitely a big fan of that. Room for improvement, it can get a little bit pricey with all of the options available for this thing. There's a lot of different packages and options. I don't know, I won't just say that. It can definitely get pricey. Let me end with a positive here. I absolutely love the tech from the, hey, blank option for this. I'm not going to say it again because it's going to interrupt my video to the digital gauges look absolutely amazing. The, all of the different things you can check out with the infotainment screen. There's a lot of very fun tech in the GLA without a doubt. But anyways, let me know what you guys think of the GLA 250 in the comments section below. And that is about it for this one, you guys. Thank you so much for watching for, for to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen. If you wanted to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube, be sure to hit the subscribe, the bell notification button. If you're in the new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all, do appreciate you guys watching more than, you know, when I will see you guys all in the next video, stay gold.