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Originally Posted by chassis
Yes, agree. I like the way Porsche has entered the SUV and EV segments, compared with the way MB has done it. The Macan and Cayenne in my opinion carry the Porsche DNA well.
With MB, the GLE does an adequate job, and possibly the GLS. MB owners debate the credibility of the GLS as the "S-Class of SUVs". It's not.
The GLC is so-so.
The GLA and GLB are horribly cheap, share a platform with another brand (GLA) and do not carry the MB brand DNA. It's another example of MB's downward spiral into model proliferation and and starving their core models of investment because resources are being siphoned into EVs. MB's reliability was never what people thought it was, and today is it worse and headed in an unfavorable direction.
MB is harvesting the cash cow which is their brand, by hollowing out formerly very good models and introducing entry level models that are simply the least bad offerings in their segments. Porsche on the other hand seems to be navigating their product portfolio fairly well.
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With Porsche being VW owned they have no reason to try to go after the low end of the market. MB doesn't have the same options.
Also add the GLA came out in 2013 in Europe which means they probably started designing it 4 years earlier? They only decided to start sending it here relatively recently and they have been in lower end markets for a long time, far before they worried much about EV's.