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The Benz is so much better equipped (OMG Bluetooth!), and so much more comfortable, that there is no comparison.

The Miata and the Benz actually get comparable gas mileage (Miata: 29mpg; Benz: 26mpg) on the highway, so the difference there is negligible.

Karl Benz spent more than 3 years trying to find an engine configuration that worked and did not blow up.

That's about as insightful as cursing Carl Benz to damnation because you bought a crappy car.

In comparison Mercedes Benz sells its gas powered toys in hundreds of thousands per year.

A Pontiac and a Benz (and a BMW) share one thing in common, poor TCO.

I think the W123 platform Mercedes Benz vehicles are the best looking cars they've ever made.

Well, I spend enough for a nice new BMW or Mercedes Benz and I'm no where near ramen profitable after 6 months.

Mercedes Benz Cockroachmobile- has aero design gone too far?

Building a fundamentally different car like the tesla took barely less time than Karl Benz needed: 2000 (real work on Tzero started) to 2009 (working prototype presented) to late 2012 when the first model S rolled of the assembly line.

I did a short count while I sat in a parking lot once and literally over 50% of the cars being driven were recent model German import luxury vehicles - I literally never saw a Mercedes Benz or even knew what BMW was by the time I was 13.

The more advanced "self-driving" systems are all Mercedes-Benz technology that is part of their high-end vehicles (and not a standard option).

According to Kelly Blue Book, the dealer value for a well-equipped 2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK with 150,000 miles on the odometer and in "very good" condition is $5,124.

Edit: Mercedes-Benz actually omitted quite a few even more advanced "self-driving" features from their new S-Class since, even though the technology was ready, regulatory requirements and drivers themselves were not ready for pure self-driving vehicles.

I'm not positive on this but I believe Tesla either uses technology or licenses patents directly from Mercedes-Benz regarding their whole "self-driving" and "autopilot" marketing here.

It's a 372 page Word document(!) Anyway, buried deep inside you'll see the regime imported a dozen Mercedes-Benz for the elites.

It's possible Uber has enough revenue base to make it worthwhile for (say) Daimler-Benz to buy them at a non-terrible multiple.

Remember, Mercedes-Benz holds over 80,000 patents on this stuff and more coming all the time.