Why did Mercedes' A-Class discard its revolutionary shape?!?

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The doo wop sound of the 40s and 50s was honed by American teenagers on street corners, trying to one-up each other to become the greatest group in town. This friendly rivalry, also seen in Chinese cafés as electronics engineers try to produce increasingly optimised circuits, is also seen in the German car industry. If Audi’s navigation system uses real-time traffic information, BMW’s system has to have it, yesterday! It was in this highly competitive environment that Mercedes tried to one-up its German rivals with the revolutionary Mercedes A-class. A false floor raised the seating height, producing the interior space of a Mercedes C-Class in something shorter than a Ford Ka. No one had done anything like this before, and the A-Class was in a class of its own. So why did Mercedes abandon this revolutionary design, going back to the same tried-and-tested shape? If you'd like to support what I do, and get early access to advert-free videos and exclusive channel updates, please consider supporting the channel from just $1 or 80p a month: http://patreon.com/bigcar Support me using Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bigcartv Big Car merch: https://teespring.com/stores/bigcartv Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigcartv My second channel - Little Car: https://www.youtube.com/littlecar Sources: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Klasse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class https://www.motor1.com/news/74281/concept-we-forgot-1981-mercedes-benz-nafa/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Konzeptfahrzeuge_von_Mercedes-Benz#NAFA https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Milestones-of-Innovation-at-Mercedes-Benz.xhtml?oid=9272377 https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mercedes/a-class/36923/mercedes-a-class https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Konzeptfahrzeuge_von_Mercedes-Benz#Studie_A https://web.archive.org/web/20070930062900/http://w210.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/dbt/volltexte/2003/746/pdf/Druckfassung_08_04_03.2003.pdf https://mercedesblog.com/fcc-concept-mercedes-benzs-affordable-family-car-china/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Baureihe_168 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class_(W177) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(Automarke)#Modelle_und_Markteinf%C3%BChrung http://www.umweltbrief.de/pdf/Mercedes_A-class_electric_zebra.pdf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_NECAR https://www.welt.de/motor/article1280688/Mercedes-und-der-Elch-Die-perfekte-Blamage.html https://www.autodaily.com.au/flashback-mercedes-benz-a38-amg-twin-engine/ https://www.supercars.net/blog/2002-mercedes-benz-a32k-amg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Vaneo https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Baureihe_169 https://www.automobile-catalog.com/make/mercedes-amg/176_a_amg/a_w176_1_5d_amg/2013.html https://www.automobile-catalog.com/make/mercedes-benz/176_a_class/a_w176_1_5d/2013.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W_176 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class_(W177) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Baureihe_177 Music in the middle of the video: "Yung Logos" by "Papov" from the YouTube library. Last Kiss Goodnight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100611 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ #bigcar