No need for dreams...I’ve a CTS-V Wagon.

The car will list at ¥5.13 million

That car never ceases to make me drool.

I can’t believe it started out like that and we ended up with something else entirely. That one above looks like $65,000 +. The production model feels more like a $45,000 car.

You need to see the doctor about your red turd problem, stat!

I nice enough looking but damn did the FT1 concept look the part. I don’t know why they didn’t just roll with the original concept - it certainly looked finished enough.

By “glorious”, you mean garish.

Z4 for comparison. Which I like a lot more. Looks like they tried too hard and put a lexus tail on the supra 

The “Mercedes for Accord Money” CLA crowd is a bit...interesting. The kind that own multiple (and successful) small-businesses, but credit at a short supply. The kind where the husband drives some random vintage Lexus GX/LX.

Mercedes makes everything from garbage trucks, to vans, to buses to taxis to the S-class. The idea of Mercedes as some sort of Uber Luxury brand is uniquely American.

Well, at least the CLA still had the most important thing people want out of a Mercedes - a big, three pointed star emblem on the front. M-B could buy unbranded Accents from Hyundai, slap their own badges on them, and a certain segment of the population would still gladly buy them.

a Mercedes for people with more vanity than money.  They can whip out the key fob with the 3 pointed star and feel like they’re somebody.

Yes

Only people I see driving these things are women 25-35 who always wanted a Mercedez but have Accord money. Shit, they should of just got the Accord. Waaay better car.

People buy badges and price points, not engine orientations.

The idea of an affordable, new Mercedes sort of defeats the whole point of the whole brand. 

Nailed it Torch! Driving with my wife the other day, she spots one of these and says “hey, what car is that?”

The CLA45 AMG, I believe someone here said “that time when Mercedes Benz decided to build a Lancer Evolution”

Why anyone would get a transverse engine MB is beyond me.

Did anyone actually buy one of these or were they all leased? And did the take rate for the lighted star get high enough for them to actually make it standard by the end?