Comments on: Mercedes-Benz – a New Model, New Pricing, New Equipment http://www.aussiemotoring.com/2010/01/12/mercedes-benz-b-180/ News and Reviews From the Australian Motoring Scene Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:22:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Artificial Intelligence | AboutAI.info http://www.aussiemotoring.com/2010/01/12/mercedes-benz-b-180/#comment-18984 Artificial Intelligence | AboutAI.info Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:31:46 +0000 http://www.aussiemotoring.com/?p=1467#comment-18984 [...] Mercedes-Benz – a New Model, New Pricing, New Equipment [...] [...] Mercedes-Benz – a New Model, New Pricing, New Equipment [...]

]]> By: Stuart Livesey http://www.aussiemotoring.com/2010/01/12/mercedes-benz-b-180/#comment-18456 Stuart Livesey Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:08:32 +0000 http://www.aussiemotoring.com/?p=1467#comment-18456 Well to be fair to MB they did include in their press release a list of prices for the other B 180 variants and that did clearly show that the price of the B 180 CDI was up $1790 but to justify that they say that there's $9000 worth of extras been added. But I see your point ... heated seats are hardly a 'must-have' for most parts of Australia and after living with leather seats for 10 years we recently went back to cloth upholstered seats in our replacement vehicle and couldn't be happier. Leather is definitely over-rated. And as for spin ... well you should see some of the press releases that come out of the auto world. Some years ago I regularly wrote press releases for the industry I was involved in and if I'd included that amount of tinsel in them I would have been shot. What I don't understand about all that spin in press releases is that it goes out to journalists, motoring writers and people like me and we then spend hours stripping the crap out of them ... it seems that the car makers are just wasting their money on bits no one believes and they would do better if they just gave us the facts. Sorry Peter ... you obviously just touched one of my sore spots :) Stuart Well to be fair to MB they did include in their press release a list of prices for the other B 180 variants and that did clearly show that the price of the B 180 CDI was up $1790 but to justify that they say that there’s $9000 worth of extras been added.

But I see your point … heated seats are hardly a ‘must-have’ for most parts of Australia and after living with leather seats for 10 years we recently went back to cloth upholstered seats in our replacement vehicle and couldn’t be happier. Leather is definitely over-rated.

And as for spin … well you should see some of the press releases that come out of the auto world. Some years ago I regularly wrote press releases for the industry I was involved in and if I’d included that amount of tinsel in them I would have been shot.

What I don’t understand about all that spin in press releases is that it goes out to journalists, motoring writers and people like me and we then spend hours stripping the crap out of them … it seems that the car makers are just wasting their money on bits no one believes and they would do better if they just gave us the facts.

Sorry Peter … you obviously just touched one of my sore spots :)

Stuart

]]> By: Peter M http://www.aussiemotoring.com/2010/01/12/mercedes-benz-b-180/#comment-18454 Peter M Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:13:40 +0000 http://www.aussiemotoring.com/?p=1467#comment-18454 OK, now let me get this right: the federal government reduced tariffs by 5%, from 10% to 5%. That's potentially a $2000 saving on that MB B180 Diesel I was interested in buying this year. But what you are telling me is that it will actually cost me $2000 MORE, because MB has decided that I want a heap of options I'm not interested in paying for. That's called "spin" when it happens in politics, and it's what makes consumers very cynical about those companies that do it. OK, now let me get this right: the federal government reduced tariffs by 5%, from 10% to 5%. That’s potentially a $2000 saving on that MB B180 Diesel I was interested in buying this year. But what you are telling me is that it will actually cost me $2000 MORE, because MB has decided that I want a heap of options I’m not interested in paying for. That’s called “spin” when it happens in politics, and it’s what makes consumers very cynical about those companies that do it.

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