How come Mercedes doesn't make reliable vehicles anymore?

>Nowadays modern Mercedes plastic turds suffer catastrophic mechanical failures at 50k miles.
I see this is a scientific thread.

>>15866813
Hi Scotty, have you ever noticed that you look a lot like Hillary Clinton?

you dont make money on reliability

>>15866840
>what is Toyota

>>15866813
>catastrophic mechanical failures after 50k miles
highly improbable. youre thinking of land rover. benzes are mechanically sound, their electronics are fucking dookie though, those will fail at 50k miles believe me

>>15866867
>what was Toyota
ftfy

>>15866813
They lost the war, it was a steady decline from that point onward.

I always bring up blackberry as an analogy. Why BlackBerry is dead?

Their phone lasted years on end.

>>15867056
They still sell black berries m8

>>15866813
Downsizing and cucked pollution-related laws put an end to the era of forever-lasting low RPM diesel engines.

>>15866813
Mercedes were only unreliable from 95 to around 08 or 09. They were good cars before and they're good cars now.

Lexus.

Before Lexus, Mercedes Benz would design a car of a certain size to be the best it possibly could be, and then figure out how much to charge to remain profitable.

Lexus decided to build a car for a certain price based on consumer demographics, and make it the best it could be and still be profitable selling it at that determined price. Their flagship ls400 does last a long time, but still isn't nearly on par with the diesel benzes and even the best gasoline benz of that time.

Benz then needed to do something very ungerman, build a car to a price point, cut corners etc.

Benz used to build a car that would mechanically function forever. Lexus figured out that if they made a car perfect for the first and second owner, they could appear to be better than benz.

>>15868663
>Look at what you made me do!

>>15868663
Blaming ToyoLex? That does not compute.