Would You Buy a Mercedes-Benz-Badged Nissan Titan?

I could have titled this post, “Would You Buy a Mercedes-Benz Pickup?” That would have been too easy. Ask a question like that, and the answer would be a near-unanimous “yes”.

Besides, Mercedes-Benz already builds some fantastic weapons for the end of the world pickups. Check out this Mercedes-Benz Unimog Black Edition. It is the atomic cannon you bring to a knife fight.

There’s just one problem with the Unimog: it is expensive. Models 10 years old go for $120,000.

Mercedes was planning to slap three-pointed stars on the Nissan Titan and Frontier, and sell its versions of the pickups in 2016. Badge engineering would have made Mercedes trucks more attainable, but they still would have had high-quality, quiet interiors and Mercedes-calibrated suspension geometry.

Daimler brass recently told Road & Track they killed the truck program when engineering demands could not be met.

If you’re in the market for a more luxurious truck, Infiniti may pick up the ball now that Benz has bounced, but to me, an Infiniti pickup recalls the Lincoln Mark LT debacle. Eww.

images [Highsnobiety and Mercedes-Benz]