A Renault engine in your Benz C-Class? Absolutely not! Nobody would ever tolerate that sort of stuff. Except it’s already happened with front-wheel drive Mercs, so there’s no point in fighting it now.
The Renault-Daimler partnership that saw several Mercedes-Benz compact cars get the French automaker’s 1.5-liter diesel engine was formed more than two years ago, but it appears that the German ...