Originally Posted by flipside909

Well Lexus started the Electroluminescent guage display craze. Now almost every luxury manufacturer including MBZ now utilizes this type of technology on their dashboards. The new upcoming S and E classes are starting to look more Japanese-like. Perahps because Daimler Chrysler hired a former long-time Toyota designer to their team. The first project was the latest interpretation of the Viper.

Why wouldn't MBZ copy the leader in the luxury SUV segment? The ML series sells well, but not quite as well as the RX. If it wasn't for Lexus, you wouldn't see an ML or X series from Deutschland. They were smart and jumped into the hot segment called the SUV market.