This needed to be done anyways. Daimler thought they needed to cheapen up and sell way more dull products instead of making reasonable expectations of them and making a smaller number of things that people actually wanted to buy and that's why they're in the trouble they're in.

Ford was in a really bad spot a few years ago and they have since downsized and focused on making great products instead of turning out droves of incompetent product that noone bought. Look at some of the great cars they're putting out now and in the near future.