Yesterday I happened to notice a fairly new (to me) Mercedes in the shopping center lot with the top most piece of its grill missing. How can that happen I wonder? When I get closer I see that that piece of grill is no longer part of a single, wholly metal surround grill - but it is a silly, thin piece of chrome that is attached to backing to make it look like a real grill. Arrgh!!!! It might not even be real chrome; who knows?

I never knew that Mercedes stopped fabricating real grills for their cars. When did this happen? Why? What happened to the quality that we all see in our 80's cars?