I actually saw a story in the news not too long ago about the degrading quality of Mercedes. Most of the taxi drivers here in Germany drive mercedes benz, and not just the base models either. But recently because of degrading quality and increased maintenance costs, many of the taxi drivers have switched cars to cheaper reliable cars like-- even Kias. Not to say that the Benz isn't reliable, but for much lower costs the quality of the Benz does not outweigh the cheap reliability of the Kia, for example.
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