That's hilarious. If true, how cheap can you be???????
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That's hilarious. If true, how cheap can you be???????
That said, I think if you are going to take a rental apart, you better be within the rental agreement. I don't know if they were, but as reported, it does sound unethical to me.
Daimler breached the agreement and paid a penalty. All seems contractually above board.
Seems to me Daimler did a bad one here.
Oh yeah they pulled a fast one on Sixt. But I doubt Daimler knew it was going to be sub contracted out to a mom & pop rental firm.
Sixt seem the least ethical in all of this if I'm honest.
Sixt likely had a request for the specific car, didn't have one on fleet, did some googling found the Mom + Pop rental firm, and no more was thought about it.
(P.S. I do have some sympathy for the Model X's owners, and it's a shame this has happened, but the way it's being painted as some massive conspiracy by Daimler is likely untrue.)
Daimler breached the agreement and paid a penalty. All seems contractually above board.
Now if the penalty clause isn't high enough to cover the consequential losses, then subsequent agreements will need to be-reworded with a "Do not disassemble / reassemble" clause or bigger penalties. These are big companies entering in to commercial contracts.
Quartz article describes more of the damage done to the vehicle: How Mercedes got caught trashing a rental Tesla Model X
Daimler would be so much better off publically if they just bought the owners a new X.
The more I read about this the more I am confirmed in that my suspicions about Daimler are true. That they are totally incompetent when it comes to BEVs. They might have engineers who can design and build great ICEs (even though I still much prefer the Mercs of old to the current ones), but when it comes to BEVs I don't expect anything from them and would never consider one of their future offerings.
They should look at their German competition to see how it's done. An e-Golf is no Model 3, or S or X, yet it's a rock solid BEV. As is the i3. Or take a look at foreign ones like the Leaf, the Zoe, the Ioniq, the Ampera-e/Bolt, all of which are great in their own right. Why is Daimler so incompetent as to not being able to at least offer something like that form their Mercedes brand?
It is certainly not representative for all of Daimler nowadays, but it might still be the general consensus in a large part of the company.