Some people in Oklahoma have a lot of money. And then there are those with real money.

I knew one of these guys in 1998 who plopped down cash for one of the first ones off the truck. He had so much trouble with it that Mercedes made him some kind of a deal which involved him keeping a diary of all that went wrong in exchange for something he never revealed.

After two years it was gone and he never said where. He did say it was, when it was not in the shop, the best four wheel drive he had ever used, and on his ranch he used a lot of them, mostly Ford trucks.