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Good State-of-Daimler article
A very good article that lays out how MB got where it is today, and what it needs to do to get back to making quality cars.
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Mercedes is still reeling from a series of embarrassing recalls of its prestige sedan, the E-Class, which starts at $50,000. In May, 2004, the company suffered a spate of problems with its electronic brake control system, and it recalled 680,000 cars for inspections ... Software bugs and the complex interfaces that allow the myriad electronics systems to talk to each other are to blame for many Mercedes defects. Getting such bugs out is a fiendishly hard job and can often take years ...Long-term, the fix lies in designing cars that are less complex, stripping out excess electronics and bolstering testing before new models go into production.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8840360/
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-Paul-
'01 E430, Sport 72,000 mi
'98 C280, 126,500 mi
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