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To: kiryandil

What’s you beef with Germans and Mercedes Benz?


19 posted on 03/19/2025 1:37:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Cobra64

Maybe he doesn’t like either…😆😆😆

Still, it’s just heartbreaking to see how Mercedes has declined from the Nineties onwards. I grew up in them, and the older models were just amazing in terms of quality and passive safety.

In the late Seventies, it was said that you had, in terms of safety, Mercedes, and then you had the rest.

I have no clue whether they had in fact no competition at all - Volvos and Saabs (RIP) were very safe, too - but they were really very safe and robust, just a little uninspiring to drive.

You were more driven by the car than driving yourself, so to say - but if you liked getting effortlessly from A to B, without much of a fuss, then the MB was for you🙂


24 posted on 03/19/2025 2:36:21 PM PDT by Menes (Thank you, America, for giving us hope!)
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To: Cobra64

I’m mad at the German ruling party, not your 2011 E350 4MATIC.

And German politicians and German industry let their Nordstream gas pipelines be blown up without raising any sort of protest. They’re killing their industries, of which Mercedes is a part.

I admire a fine piece of machinery - glad you snagged a good one before the German Greens took over. :)


28 posted on 03/19/2025 4:30:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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