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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz
I doubt Mercedes moved their design studios to Japan because it was cheaper or inferior.
Would you have the same opinion if they left it in Germany and produced the exact same styled cars?
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Mercedes most famous designers post WWII were foreigners. Paul Bracq and Bruno Sacco. Since Sacco they've designed ****, in my opinion. This is not surprising to me if they figure the Jappanese can teach them about vehicle design. I am not aware of a single Jappanese vehicle that'd I'd consider even approaching any Mercedes in design since WWII right up untill, as I said the W140. So I don't know why they felt the need to relocate their design center to Yokohama, but I don't think it's done them a bit of good. As I've said elsewhere I guess that's the reason the current S-Class looks like a Nissan Maxima on Steroids. But that's just my opinion of course. And no it wouldn't matter ot me where they locate their design studio if they came up with the same stuff they did recently. However that's a moot point as we don't know if a non Japannese designed Mercedes would have been as ugly as the Jappanese designed ones.
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