-There is strength in numbers, something you discover as a child when you commit some heinous offense against adult society and then try to blame your peers: “But everyone was doing it!” In my household, that protest was always met with the rejoinder, “If all the other kids decided to jump off a bridge, would you do that, too?” delivered by my mother with equal parts anger and sarcasm. Perhaps I could introduce her to Wolf-Dieter Kurz, the Mercedes-Benz vice president who introduced us to the new 2016 GLE-class coupe by saying, “We are matching ourselves with those who have previously defined sportiness in this segment.” Maybe Mom could explain to him that just because BMW makes an X6 doesn’t mean Stuttgart needs one of its own. READ MORE ››
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