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Originally Posted by trew
Hi Tim,
Can you comment on the quality of recent model year Mercedes? I've read a lot of reports about how Mercedes quality is slipping ever since the Daimler Chrysler merger.
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The quality of newer MB's and european cars in General is much much better. No question we were in the crapper for a few years. The cars today that we are turning out are great.
The new 2008 C-Class for instance did over 15 million miles of testing before going into production.
http://http://www.emercedesbenz.com/...C_Class_1.html
The biggest problem that we faced was that they were trying to cram too much technology into the cars and as we know with computers they do crash. Through the whole time there were very little in mechanical problems all of the problems were with niggly bs problems. NAvigation, phone system etc....
MB actually was just awarded the lowest breakdown rates in germany by ADAC (German CAA)