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"Meh." idk it's a very well-established 92-year-old luxury brand number 1 in their category, now investing billions in building an all-electric crossover. they
by debt 8y ago
"Meh."
idk it's a very well-established 92-year-old luxury brand number 1 in their category, now investing billions in building an all-electric crossover. they already have a large established, loyal customer base. $12 billion seems scarily low; meaning they know they won't need much to be able to sell this car.
this is a significant threat to Tesla; and the definitive moment we can say that Tesla has awoken the sleeping giants.
although on the flip this will help the industry as a whole; it's more likely than not that Tesla will sell even more electric cars because of this.
- CalChris 8y agoThe S is a pretty good car but I can still imagine Mercedes competing with it based on their luxury heritage. The 3 on the other hand is an astonishingly good car at a different price point and Mercedes will have great difficulty competing with advantage against it. Meh until proven otherwise.
- Tade0 8y ago> idk it's a very well-established 92-year-old luxury brand number 1 in their category On one hand I guess yeah, on the other - is it really anymore? I mean their latest endeavor, the X class, is nothing more than a fancier Renault Alaskan, and an expensive one at that. I haven't seen any high-risk effort from them in years. During the last twenty years Toyota and Honda invested heavily in hybrids and hydrogen-powered cars, Renault-Nissan in EVs, BMW in carbon-fiber bodies. What did Mercedes do aside from making good-looking, well put together cars for the affluent?
- davidzweig 8y agoMade some trucks.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y agoThere were the autonomous F 015 videos, a sort of parlor room on wheels thing. (Don't know if there was actual hardware or just videos. To be fair, it will probably come to the depicted solution in due time.)
- growlist 8y agoI don't get the Mercedes hype. My other half's £30k (company car) Merc does have fancy stuff like auto parallel parking, lane control, auto braking etc. but apart from that it feels just as plasticky as any other new car.
- dagw 8y agoMercedes whole business plan seems to make some very nice, very expensive, aspirational cars that they use as 'advertising' to sell uninspired, middle of the road, slightly overpriced lower end cars.
- xedeon 8y agoHow will MB they address road-trips and being able to source batteries at a low cost?