Mercedes Cost Cutting Is Expansive - Owners Manuals And Manual Transmissions Are Going Away

Mercedes has announced more details about its major cost-cutting strategy in order to achieve higher profitability and lower its break-even point.

The German carmaker will gradually phase out manual transmissions and reduce the number of internal combustion engines by 40 percent until 2025 and by 70 percent by 2030. The target is to cut fixed costs and R&D expenditure by more than 20 percent by 2025.

PUGPROUD - 10/8/2020 4:13:44 PM

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Most owner's manuals are incomprehensible to a large degree on modern cars.

jeffgall - 10/8/2020 4:54:51 PM

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Are there any Mercs in the U.S. that still offer a manual? I would expect there still are in Europe and other markets, but wondering if there is any impact here.

GeorgeD - 10/8/2020 5:46:02 PM

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Maybe in their commercial truck line ?

dlin - 10/8/2020 7:18:48 PM

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10% of Mercedes is now owned by Chinese car MFR, yet

009 posted 'Mercedes Moving Towards Exclusivity And Will Let Lexus And The Others Scramble For Those That Can't Afford Luxury' 2 days ago

Yah right

MDarringer - 10/8/2020 8:51:29 PM

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Perhaps Geely will buy Mercedes LOL

ricks0me - 10/8/2020 8:35:48 PM

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009 posted 'Mercedes Moving Towards Exclusivity And Will Let Lexus And The Others Scramble For Those That Can't Afford Luxury' 2 days ago

This is Bull Shit because MB can't afford to throw in an owners manual. Now that is exclusive

Yonder7 - 10/8/2020 9:53:34 PM

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I understand that they refers to manual transmissions , no owners manual. But that´s move that will affect the world but not the North Americans becuase most of then does not know what a manual transmission is.

Yonder7 - 10/8/2020 9:55:03 PM

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Hi ricks0me, read the article so you can understand.

Yonder7 - 10/8/2020 10:03:08 PM

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Title is misleading because I did not find anything related to the Owner´s Manual, which in my third world country would be a felony to sell products without manuals., I bet also in would be USA. I thing Agent 009 misunderstood the title, that´s happen to me very often with so many things that I use to read in internet.

ctsang - 10/9/2020 10:34:04 AM

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nobody reads paper manuals anymore