The electric midsize minivan will fill a luxury hole that the rear-wheel-drive Metris passenger van, soon to be discontinued, failed to do, said Jeff Aiosa, owner of Mercedes-Benz of New London in Connecticut.
“When the Metris launched, dealers told Mercedes, ‘You really have to put luxury into it, you have to make it all-wheel drive,'” Aiosa said. “That didn’t happen.”
Although dealers did well with the cargo Metris, “the passenger version was really just a people hauler,”…
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