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The Missing Ink

Of course it’s got remote start, it’s a Mercedes!

This is what the salesman at a Tulsa Mercedes Benz dealership told my wife’s dad three years ago when he was buying his third Mercedes from them.

He didn’t lie — he omitted. That brand-new, shiny 2021 Mercedes Benz did have remote start — at that time. Then, a month or so ago, it suddenly did not. After three years, almost to the day, the remote star…