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Originally Posted by MedMech
Perception really is everything, look at how much company's pay for a name. Mercedes is best known for prestige, quality and safety. I'm not so sure they are leaps and bounds ahead of other manufactures in safety like the were 20 years ago that leaves MB with prestige if that erodes like quality has you can bet you will be able to buy re badged Impala's with the MB star on the front.
I want to get a new MB badly but I am scared to death of the quality issues, so I'm leaning to the dark side like Ted did. I am way too hard on a car to deal with maintenance issues that can be avoided at the drawing board.
IMO MB has to do something big to upgrade quality fast. It took GM 5 years to be at the top I would like to see MB do the same and IMHO ditch the C-class in the US or sell it as a Dodge Uranus.
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A post this ignorant deserves another viewpoint.
What is with this U.S. mindset about MB standing as some hallmark of "prestige"?
Mercedes-Benz used to signal durability, dependability and safety to many people. Did this "prestige" thing get created in the United States, before or after the whole Packard-Studebaker-MB debacle? Max Hoffman, importing these vehicles beforehand with celebs buying them up? Hugh Heffner? What?
Doctors to bus drivers operate Mercedes-Benz badged vehicles in countries around the world without "prestige" even being considered. I look at the MB sprinter vans used by FEDEX and now even Canada Post and smile with joy.
People who cry outrage at the BMW 1 series and MB A Klasse and the like need to deflate their egos. We need to stop tough talking, uniformed "piss on you, look at me" arrogant attitudes from proliferating any further.
If I ever finish school and graduate, I'd like to order a 320 CDI with MB tex interior, hubcabs (I hate how in the US and Canada the E's come with alloy wheels with 5 spokes and their pseudo-sporting connotations) power mirrors/locks/windows/winter package with light washers/heated seats and base everything else. Will that happen, that amount of choice offered to consumers here? Not until we can change this terrible mindset which plagues North America (Canada to a lesser extinct I'd like to think but, I'd be biased to say that).
Medmech, I cannot believe it was you who wrote this post, in the past you've made some insightful, intelligent and very funny remarks which I've enjoyed reading. Who is this impostor????