Hot! Mercedes-Benz, What's Next?

[klier]

Redoing the whole thing from scratch would require jumping through all the regulatory, safety etc. hoops all over again and would leave them without a car in that segment for another 3-5 years.

....and adding another 1-2 billion in R&D. Something the shareholders sure as hell aren't going to like. At all.

Gorden is the one to blame here, yet they refuse to fire him. I hold him personally responsible for everything wrong (together with the ones in the board of directors who keep letting him do his thing). His time is up. He's out of ideas.

 

[AbsoluteUnit]

That engine has so much potential if it gets the updates from new CLA 1.5 engine such as the 48V mild hybrid with low speed EV mode/sailing mode etc. and changes to the turbos (E-Turbo etc.) to add low rev torque and response. It could achieve 800PS and 1100nm no problem as the Utopia is achieving 877PS already.

It could do a lot more. The M275 (which is nearly identical mechanically) natively produced 1300Nm (1000lbft) out of the gate and it had to be limited to stop from tearing the drivetrain apart.
Nowadays the technology exists to make use of that power and torque.