To this day the FJ40 shits on any G-Wagen, Defender or Wrangler ever built.

Not an e-brake

Same cable-activated parking brake, just made as a 4th pedal

Ohh

Mercedes kinda like the Apple of the car industry... or is Apple the Mercedes of tech?

It would also conveniently automatically disengage if you pressed the normal brakes

So you could never drive with parking break on

Ohh

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NGcAAOSw~fpZjaPf/s-l300.jpg

Can't find the photo of the pedals, this is the next best thing

Looks like cheese graters with safety filled holes

You had it on the left most side, not very convenient to engage, so you would only bother when you have parked

@Edog speaking of cheese graters, seems Mercedes is indeed the Apple of the automobile industry.

Ehh. They aren’t that big

Well, >used to be reliable, innovative brands

>newer products are outlandishly expensive and now need shitloads of accesories to make their products run effectively

The idea was that in a rally car they would have an actual e-brake handle actuated by the driver, locking the wheels in a smart way (a version of ABS) and a car would still have an actual purpose-made parking brake too

Not as stupid when you know the details

>spare parts are getting harder to get for you to maintain the product yourself, and you're forced to rush to the dealer

>repairs it for ridiculous pricing that you might just as well get a new product instead

>unlike previous years, outright showing off they ripped off ideas from smaller brands

lol, indeed

BMW is less sleazy in all of these regards

Not to mention that BMW are the only truly green company I know of

Instead of yelling at you to pay green tax, they just went an bough a hydroelectric dam to produce CO-neutral carbon fibers

They don't just yap about being green, they just do it

And don't even make a big deal out of it either

True that

Everytime (And as an offroad nut especially) I see a G-Wagen I cringe a bit

Especially if it's driven by airheads who don't know what the vehicle even was for

Benz shit on the legacy of a great car by jacking up the price and destroying the niche it was once known for. A off-roader now just an expensive mall-crawler for those Starbucks sipping basic bitches in LA who drive past the shitholes of Skid Row in indifference to get the latest iPhone. Yeah, that's the image that a G-Wagen gives me now.

also, merc removed their dalai lama quote ad

Of course they will

Otherwise wouldn't the Chinese people send all their Mercs to the scrapyard?

Funny as lots of CCP members love to travel in their Benz cars.

https://youtu.be/9njZZ2ooVL0?t=286

oh wow

I just learned an interesting detail

Merc 190E used differential lock as a parking brake

So... that "parking break" was only a parking break when the car was fully stopped

Punching that pedal while moving would only lock the differential and won't destroy anything