Things may have changed, but Europeans laughed about
our considering Mercedes-Benz a luxury car and paying
luxury prices for it. Over there, MB was a truck maker.
Plus, they’d get a kick out of Canadian tourists making emphasis of the Maple Leaf flag to show they were not American, when to Europe, Canada and the US were lumped into North America.
“” “” Things may have changed, but Europeans laughed about
our considering Mercedes-Benz a luxury car and paying
luxury prices for it. “” “”
That is somehow dated now but MB in Germany always had a sort of image Crown Vic had in US. It is something a taxi driver or a cop or some government type would be driving. They were always available to the public and many had it for one reason or another but it was not cool to drive one. With the expansion of their model line including hatchbacks and crossovers it is somehow changing but not really by much. E-class is still the ultimately non-cool a sort of like minivan in US.