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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar
if you ask abt why elite? - thats the reason you dont see mercedes benz branded garbage trucks in the USA, regular benz customers wont like that.
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I don't quite buy that.
In the 70's and 80's Mercedes trucks were sold through USA Freightliner dealerships. When MB bought Freightliner in 83 or so they quit branding trucks as MB because Freightliner was a known Anerican brand. MB later bought the heavy truck division of Ford renaming it Sterling ( now discontinued ) and at some point also bought the Western Star brand and FUSO from Mitsubishi. MB owns lots of country specific name plates around the world.
Sprinter vans are either marked Freightliner or MB and MB just came out with a new smaller van that starts out at $ 26,000.