Indeed, so much has Mercedes change

Indeed, so much has Mercedes changed that in three years it has gone from the worst-performing of the large luxury carmakers to the trailblazer. Rivals at its bigger-selling rival BMW look enviously at its 9.1 per cent return on sales last year (and even more so on the 10.4 per cent it made in the fourth quarter - compared with BMW's 5.4 per cent in the third quarter).