My wife and I share working office, therefore you can guess we talk to each other. Today while talking to her at one point she had to call a Mercedes representative for an importation issue, and she cut my speech by saying “shut a minute I have to call Mercedes”, that’s where I answered jokingly “You are buying a Mercedes now?”.
She never answered, and that’s a joke in itself.
Twenty years ago I would bet my wife would have answered “I wish” or “soon”, or “yeah, that would be great”, but in 2019, our family and all of our relatvies stay away from those emblems. I have to admit, Audi is the exception as they have upped their game and have become the most reliable German brand by far.