Mercedes X-Class Gets A Longer Bed - Is The Time Ripe For US Entry?

Last year, Mercedes-Benz made its first foray into the pickup sector, revealing the polarizing X-Class. Billed as the world’s first truly premium pickup, the X-Class is being sold in Europe but remains forbidden fruit in the US, despite America’s unrelenting love for pickup trucks. Not selling the X-Class in a country where pickups are incredibly popular may seem like a baffling business decision, but Mercedes believes the time simply isn’t right to introduce the unproven X-Class to the American market.
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mre30 - 3/15/2018 4:47:32 PM

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America does not need an MB/Nissan pickup truck. By the way, Nissan pickups suck - see recent Car&Driver review

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-nissan-titan-xd-long-term-test-review

TomM - 3/15/2018 4:56:09 PM

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THe Pick up truck arena is still an area where being conceived as an American Product means a lot (RaM is not of course).

I cannot see why Mercedes would want to bring a sub-standard product to the USA like that one - it would permanently harm their reputation

MDarringer - 3/15/2018 6:43:05 PM

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A badge-engineered Nissan is still a crappy Nissan.

MDarringer - 3/17/2018 10:05:33 AM

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That's because they are garbage Renault designs under the ugly Japanese styling.