Mercedes reliability has always been a joke, as any consumer reports study will tell you. They are more a tribute to German marketing than engineering. In any

Mercedes reliability has always been a joke, as any consumer reports study will tell you. They are more a tribute to German marketing than engineering. In any case, there are plenty of high end manufacturers in the american south. BMW and Boeing in SC, just off the top of my head, for example. Stereotypes are wrong, sometimes.