Mercedes Forum
12-22-2007, 06:07 AM
Filed under: Hatchbacks (http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/), Mercedes Benz (http://www.autoblog.com/category/mercedes-benz/)
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Mercedes' small cars, the A-Class and B-Class, have not been the runaway success that the German automaker had hoped they would be, partially due to high costs of production that drove retail prices up above their competitors. That's why Mercedes-Benz had been looking at forming a partnership with a rival automaker in order to reduce costs and produce more competitively-priced entry-level models. But after discussions were held with both BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/05/bmw-and-mercedes-may-hook-up-for-subcompact/) and Fiat (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/07/fiat-and-daimler-may-partner-to-develop-compacts-sedans-suvs/), Mercedes has opted to go it alone.
Read more after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/20/mercedes-going-solo-for-new-a-and-b-classes/).
[Source: Inside Line]
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Mercedes' small cars, the A-Class and B-Class, have not been the runaway success that the German automaker had hoped they would be, partially due to high costs of production that drove retail prices up above their competitors. That's why Mercedes-Benz had been looking at forming a partnership with a rival automaker in order to reduce costs and produce more competitively-priced entry-level models. But after discussions were held with both BMW (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/05/bmw-and-mercedes-may-hook-up-for-subcompact/) and Fiat (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/07/fiat-and-daimler-may-partner-to-develop-compacts-sedans-suvs/), Mercedes has opted to go it alone.
Read more after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/20/mercedes-going-solo-for-new-a-and-b-classes/).
[Source: Inside Line]
Continue reading Mercedes going solo for new A and B-Classes (http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/20/mercedes-going-solo-for-new-a-and-b-classes/)
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