Mercedes planning a pickup truck

[SandEagle]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2015/03/27/mercedes-benz-plans-pickup-truck/

who would want to even take it offroading or load anything into it?! i predict failure.

 

[ghost recon88]

Finally! Need something to trump the loads of Denali and LTZ trims you see on the roads these days.

 

[Midwayman]

who would want to even take it offroading or load anything into it?!

You mean use it exactly like most people really use trucks?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

What's wrong with their current pickup?

 

[SandEagle]

You mean use it exactly like most people really use trucks?

i was referring to cost. would you take a MERCEDES offroading?

 

[MongGrel]

I'll never own one, do I don't give a shit I suppose.....

 

[996GT2]

The new one looks a little girly next to their current pickups

 

[Tsavo]

Yiss.

I'm in for one.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Pointless IMO. The target audience who A) can afford a MB, B) wants a MB, C) wants a truck, and D) would rather buy this than an F-650 or something (since all of their other vehicles are luxurious and they want one rugged, "manly" vehicle) is so tiny that this just doesn't make any sense.

I guess if they're just taking a current model SUV and chopping the back end off to make a small bed it won't cost them much in development and production anyway, but I can't imagine there's a large enough market for this vehicle to make sense.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

i was referring to cost. would you take a MERCEDES offroading?

As noted above, and below you, Mercedes actually has extensive experience building heavy trucks for severe duty. Freightliner has utilized Mercedes engines for years, not to mention Mercedes own line of Severe Duty trucks across the pond. Heck, they build the UNIMOG, arguably one of the most capable of-the-shelf off-roading trucks to have ever been manufactured.

If Mercedes wanted to, they absolutely could build a capable off-roading truck, they have the expertise to do it. Of course they will more likely build a luxury truck, like the old Lincoln Blackwood, which of course will not (and was never designed to) see off-road use.

 

[996GT2]

Pointless IMO. The target audience who A) can afford a MB, B) wants a MB, C) wants a truck, and D) would rather buy this than an F-650 or something (since all of their other vehicles are luxurious and they want one rugged, "manly" vehicle) is so tiny that this just doesn't make any sense.

I guess if they're just taking a current model SUV and chopping the back end off to make a small bed it won't cost them much in development and production anyway, but I can't imagine there's a large enough market for this vehicle to make sense.

Mercedes should just make some of their Unimog models available for the US market. The whole "manly lifted truck" crowd would be all over that.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

that is girly truck! unimog smash!

 

[JulesMaximus]

I need one of these. Because I own a house and... well, I sometimes need to pick stuff up. Oh, and I'm a man. Yeah.

Where's that fucker with the southern drawl in the truck commercials dammit?

 

[Meghan54]

Guess no one read the article where it stated this truck is not going to be exported to the U.S., eh?

 

[jlee]

i was referring to cost. would you take a MERCEDES offroading?

Nah, I prefer Lexus.

 

[JMapleton]

Mercedes needs less models. They're diluting their brand.

 

[iCyborg]

i was referring to cost. would you take a MERCEDES offroading?

Are you talking about this Mercedes, or "a Mercedes". This one probably not. But G550, absolutely!

 

[Eug]

Pointless IMO. The target audience who A) can afford a MB, B) wants a MB, C) wants a truck, and D) would rather buy this than an F-650 or something (since all of their other vehicles are luxurious and they want one rugged, "manly" vehicle) is so tiny that this just doesn't make any sense.

I guess if they're just taking a current model SUV and chopping the back end off to make a small bed it won't cost them much in development and production anyway, but I can't imagine there's a large enough market for this vehicle to make sense.

Mercedes trucks are common outside North America. This just represents a new truck class for them, and it's not even going to be available in North America anyways.

 

[MongGrel]

What's wrong with their current pickup?

That's more like it anyways.

Why piss around, if you're going there go real big.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[MongGrel]

The new one looks a little girly next to their current pickups

Yeah or really big.

 

[WT]

Bet that thing will sell like a VW minivan !!



And by that, I mean .. nobody will buy it.

 

[MongGrel]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2015/03/27/mercedes-benz-plans-pickup-truck/

who would want to even take it offroading or load anything into it?! i predict failure.

I guess you could get it in black and mount a .50 caliber in the bed and post a guy there and it would make a pretty cool Executive limo in some countries.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Looks lame in that pic. Plus being MB it would cost a fortune while requiring ridiculously expensive maintenance or repairs (because European!), so, no.

If I wanted a pickup truck I'd get a domestic, and an older used one that I wouldn't care about scratching the bed with cargo.

 

[Greenman]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2015/03/27/mercedes-benz-plans-pickup-truck/

who would want to even take it offroading or load anything into it?! i predict failure.

Pickups are now SUV's, because SUV's weren't big enough. Most never go off road or have anything larger than a bag of groceries in the bed. I see dozens of $60k+ pickups on the road everyday.

 

[yhelothar]

I thought April Fools crept up early on me this year since another pickup truck was announced that day another year.