New MB cars may have a quality feel to them but it is not substantiated by the actual build quality. Post war German engineering was genuinely of high caliber. Post 2000 German marketing has capitalized on that to an extreme degree while focusing on nice smelling soft dashed and generally substantial feeling vehicles. Unfortunately the electrical and greasy bits are no better than what other manufacturers use likely because many come from the same supplier.

Today German engineering is no more than a romanticization a past generation which no longer exists.