Am I dreaming? This is exactly what they should do. The hell with FWD in a Mercedes. If you want "FWD efficiency" then buy something else. A Mercedes should be a Mercedes and RWD doesn't mean it can't be efficient, thats a piss-poor excuse that GM and other American car companies have decided to use in order to get out doing the proper engineering to make a RWD efficient. I say a whole range of smaller, RWD, beautifully built Mercedes-Benzes will do wonders for their bottom line and bring more first time buyers into the brand. A small coupe, cabrio, sedan, and SUV for the U.S. market and the rest for Europe.

If anything the Smart should have been FWD, not RWD. Flush out the Smart range with FWD vehicles, not lower end Mercedes-Benzes.

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