2002 Mercedes Benz C230 Test Drive
High among the things many Americans don’t understand about European life are traffic circles, cheese that smells like flatulence, and luxury-brand hatchbacks.
There’s not much anyone can do to bridge the cultural divide on those first three subjects. Mercedes-Benz introduced us to the luxury hatch with its 2002 C230 Kompressor sports coupe.
Luxury-brand hatchbacks are popular in Europe, where streets are small and gas prices large. But only BMW tried to sell a hatchback, the 318ti, in the United States, in 1995. It attracted few buyers, and those who did buy one were much older than BMW had expected. After 1999, the ti was gone.
Source – Car and Driver
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