I love the current design too, but we are a very small minority. The new design is like their competition's, but that is what sells!!!
MBUSA sells only 100 a month of these hand built SUV's. The U.S. Dollar is being stepped on by the Euro. After the currency differential, MB makes at MOST $10k per vehicle .... so they make $1MM a month or $12MM per year on an entire line of vehicles. One brochure is $10, and one TV ad is $500k .... you do the math.
The competition is eating MB shorts [B)]. If this was selling 10,000 per month like other SUV's, or even 1,000 per month, they would continue production.
Continuing a stripped down version would be the best. Get rid of all the crap on these that breaks, and get back to basic's [8D]