Marketing would be part of it but.....my personal opinion was and still is not enough HP if they had stuffed 250 or 300 HP into it
I think sales would have been better. I sold my 07 Crossfire Cp Ltd with 202,000 miles last year when I replaced it with an 08 Cp Ltd
with only 18,000- miles. The car has classic MB early era racing lines which will always be classic. As stated before I think it was just not
enough HP to compete in such a "niche" market, oh and why would MB want to compete against itself ? Those era SLK's were butt ugly square boxes!