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When it comes to luxury brands, I believe you will first think of Mercedes-Benz, as the first-tier luxury brand BBA "bellwether", Mercedes-Benz is well-deserved, so it is favored by many consumers. With the decline of the industry and increased competition in the luxury brand market, Mercedes-Benz also had to make concessions to adapt to the market. A few days ago, I learned from the relevant platforms that the entry-level models of Mercedes-Benz have fallen to about 160000.

It is indeed surprising to be able to buy a first-tier luxury brand at the price of an ordinary joint venture brand. The model is still Mercedes-Benz's domestic entry-level model A, which only appeared on the market last year. At the beginning of the market, the price was 21.18-299800 yuan. Now the terminal discount is further explored. 2020 low-configuration models have gone to 166600 yuan, and the lowest price of 2019 models belonging to the same country has reached 161200 yuan.

The domestic Mercedes-Benz A-Class Positioning is a compact car with the latest family front design, similar to the CLS. The interior also uses the latest family-style biased movement and technology, with a dual-screen linkage design with LCD dashboards and LCD touch screens, although the screen size of low-end models is not so good.

The length, width and height of the car body are 4622*1796*1454mm, wheelbase 2789mm, which is even superior to the world's best-selling Toyota Corolla.

The domestic A-class is equipped with 1.3T/136 horsepower and 1.3T/163 horsepower, as well as 2.0T/190 horsepower three engines, the whole system is equipped with a standard seven-gear double clutch transmission, the maximum power is 100/120/140kW, the peak torque is 200x250x300 Nm.

Mercedes-Benz A-Class sales have been around 5000 since its launch, peaking at 7500 last year, lower than the Audi A3 (about 7000 monthly sales) and higher than the BMW 1-Series (about 3000 monthly sales) compared with the same class of BMW 1-Series and Audi A3. The reason is that the Audi A3's terminal price is lower, and the entry-level model has fallen to around 140000, while BMW is more likely to be complained of as a three-cylinder model, so it can't be accepted by more consumers.

Although Mercedes-Benz is a luxury brand, it has recently encountered a lot of negative news because of its quality control and service problems, which has led many netizens to say that Mercedes-Benz has never cheated the "poor". But now such a luxury brand model has been probed into the price of the joint venture brand. Can't it be said that only the "rich" can afford it?

According to the National defective Product Management Center, Mercedes-Benz became a major recall in 2019, with a total of 1.4582 million vehicles and 24 recalls in 2019, involving a number of imported and domestic models. Among them, the biggest influence is the "broken shaft door" of C-class and E-class cars.

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