Hot! Mercedes-Benz, What's Next?

[klier]

I’ve also noticed that a ICE CLA 220 is more expensive than a C300 . Crazy times. It’s overall more expensive than C-Class in every occasion.

Pretty much equal to an iX3, LMAO.

Absolutely ridiculous, this is a 30k car. Boggles my mind why anyone would buy an FWD econobox over a less expensive proper RWD Benz? What am I missing?

 

[Uygar]

Pretty much equal to an iX3, LMAO.

Absolutely ridiculous, this is a 30k car. Boggles my mind why anyone would buy an FWD econobox over a less expensive proper RWD Benz? What am I missing?

Crazy times. Cars are getting so expensive.

 

[SKY]

Crazy times. Cars are getting so expensive.

Not all cars are getting as expensive. We are paying for the mistakes of the EU. Germany has higher employee costs, higher energy costs, the union representatives sit on the board of the companies... This obviously is different in countries that operate under a dictatorship model.

Not an expert in Germany, so probably some of our German members can correct me or complement what I just said, but I feel German cars have increased prices the most during the past 5 years.

 

[Design FIRST]

Not all cars are getting as expensive. We are paying for the mistakes of the EU. Germany has higher employee costs, higher energy costs, the union representatives sit on the board of the companies... This obviously is different in countries that operate under a dictatorship model.

Not an expert in Germany, so probably some of our German members can correct me or complement what I just said, but I feel German cars have increased prices the most during the past 5 years.

Price gouging is quite rampant in Germany, especially since the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Not only have auto manufacturers been guilty of this. Currently, there is on ongoing contraversy regarding, for example, the prices of many essential foodstuffs and housing/rental costs. Price inflation that involves blatant cash grabbing. Certainly, thoughtless sprawling regulation also plays a role. A plague that so many Germans recognize-and yet, nothing palpable seems to be ever initiated in order to rein it in. Our bureaucracies can be likened to an all you can eat buffet party in which it is the host as well as the guest, feeding itself into morbid obesity. Probably not only a "German Thing", I suppose.

At least we can get good quality,relatively inexpensive Chinese electronic devices over Amazon. This will carry over to automobiles, I suspect.

 

[wagnechris]

Price gouging is quite rampant in Germany, especially since the COVID pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Not only have auto manufacturers been guilty of this. Currently, there is on ongoing contraversy regarding, for example, the prices of many essential foodstuffs and housing/rental costs. Price inflation that involves blatant cash grabbing. Certainly, thoughtless sprawling regulation also plays a role. A plague that so many Germans recognize-and yet, nothing palpable seems to be ever initiated in order to rein it in. Our bureaucracies can be likened to an all you can eat buffet party in which it is the host as well as the guest, feeding itself into morbid obesity. Probably not only a "German Thing", I suppose.

At least we can get good quality,relatively inexpensive Chinese electronic devices over Amazon. This will carry over to automobiles, I suspect.

Exactly, those that were partly produced in exploitative and inhumane conditions and are, for the most part, simply dangerous and substandard.
I'd rather pay a little more for occupational safety and humanity. Live and let live!