Mercedes B200 Turbo

[Alan_One]

From insider marketing materials -

Looks like DB wants to get into the youth tuner market...

Any thoughts?

[05GLI]

I'm wondering what it's suspose to compete with? At that price it would seem to take the market from the smaller 4 doors like VW and Honda and Maybe PT Cruiser. (if you consider that a car)

[Troike]

Traditional breaker? what about nu-skool breakers?

[mitssn]

$22-23k??? thats pretty cheap for ANY benz

[paultakeda]

Ugly.

[PWRPUFF]

$22-23k??? thats pretty cheap for ANY benz
Knowing MB recently, alas, it may be cheap in more ways than just price.

-- Kane ... unintended by the merger, Chrysler has managed to move further upmarket, and Mercedes moved a lot downmarket.

[T-dub'n]

Blah! I'd go with the new GTI anyday

[Alan_One]

Knowing MB recently, alas, it may be cheap in more ways than just price.

-- Kane ... unintended by the merger, Chrysler has managed to move further upmarket, and Mercedes moved a lot downmarket.

That has more to do with the quality of the products being offered by each brand.

The industry rags I read are saying Merc is shaking things up internally as a result of a big drop in quality.

[PWRPUFF]

The industry rags I read are saying Merc is shaking things up internally as a result of a big drop in quality.
Well I sure hope so! Any car company, especially when they're supposed to be the pinnacle, should be ashamed. In the goals of boosting short term sales, their cost cutting will now result in a loss of future sales. Folks that say "never again" spread negative words faster than those who say "it's a good car".

The Detroit auto makers know that well nowadays from what happened in the past couple decades. Obviously, a few of the German auto makers (and to a certain extent, a Swedish one too) didn't learn from that trend.

-- Kane