"The best or nothing" perfectly described Mercedes before quality and engineering went downhill in the 1990s. The century-old slogan is especially insulting when the German automaker issues ...

Mercedes-Benz recall over 1000 C63 models for ESP problem Mercedes-Benz were the first to sell a car with this now standard technology, but a simple mistake has forced a recall of its models.

So Mercedes decided to introduce ESP on all its models. Mercedes is now celebrating 25 years of ESP as a great achievement, but its introduction was not intended but forced by the A-Class disaster.