The B-Class and Smart are disaster waiting to happen if they try and sell them in the U.S. Mercedes is seen as purely a luxury brand here and a 20K hatchback doesn't belong here. The Japanese and Koreans are still going to provide more value because at 22K I bet that would be a stripped to the frame rails B200T. Mercedes needs to concentrate on quality and premium products, there is much more money to be made at that end of the market and if Mercedes would have never dropped the ball in quality (which cost them a lot of their rep and sales) they would realize this.

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