Last year, MB (even with all the crap people are saying about its cars) made a profit of $2.3 billion. Warranty claims were down 45% worldwide, enabling the huge increase in profit from the previous year even with sales that were lower than those from the year before by 3% worldwide. DCX also makes lots of money from its Truck Division and then the Chrysler Group became profitable again last year ($1.8 billion profit). The Truck Division was restructured and brought back to profit by Dr. Cordes, the current Head of Mercedes Car Group. He's another reason why I believe MB will be fixed quickly. Furthermore, if he restores MB's quality and increases the profit margin(these are MB's two biggest problems today), he will gain enough clout to become DCX's next CEO in 2008 when Dr. Schremp steps down.

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1999 Mercedes-Benz S600, 103K miles - garage queen
1988 Mercedes-Benz 560SEL, 89K miles - daily driver
2007 Hyundai Sonata Limited, 31K - daily driver