[Bora20]

I also like the European idea of purchasing vehicles.

First, you pick the vehicle size you want. Then you pick the engine you can afford. Then, if you have money left over, the options.

For example, you could purchase a new E-Class sedan because you need the size to hold 5 adults (the C won't cut it).

Then, you get the 240 petrol or 270 CDI engine because that it all you can afford, don't need the most powerful beast on the raod, just one of the safest.

Then you pick some of the options that you really must have. Give up alloy wheels to have xenon lights and headlight washers. Ditch the Command system because you will never need the navigation portion. Cloth instead of leather so you can afford heater seats and mirrors. Some poeple put safety ahead of style, most of you, that is why you bought and ML (I am not saying it isn't good looking, because it is).

I don't like the idea of being told what I can and cannot have in my vehicle. MB Canada is like this in some respects, but the engine choices are limited to what the US gets.

Hopefully they will figure out that Canadians are different and have different needs. VW has, for the most part, we get the Golf CL, the US doesn't. We may get the Smart, the US probably won't. Fuel is expensive here, not like in the US.