Originally Posted by
JoeO
A failure ? Not a chance according to those who know and love the style, the ride, and the reliability.....even after 20 years the car has a rock solid reputation for build quality.
The world will always be abound with Badge snobs, car magazine editors deciding trends and setting narratives, Corporate mismanagement, moronic buffoons like Jeremy Clarkson, and ill trained Service techs.
......just give me a home mechanic who keeps tabs on his expenses, knows the best wax, and who justifies his passion by driving to the Dragon to see what’s cooking.
No failures here.
Oh don't get me wrong. I am a huge fan of our cars...in my eyes it's all but a failure but from s corporate/financial success perspective it failed miserably. Only in the first production year did Daimler Chrysler meet it's projected sales goals. The following years the numbers tanked dramatically. The SRT was not supposed to be released in 2005 but rather later on but since numbers were bad they pushed it to market with the roadster a year after launch of the vehicle.
The car itself is amazing and high quality but the execution from the corporate aspect was madly mismanaged imo. Kind of tough to believe as seasoned as Mercedes is they treated the merger as badly as they did.