For decades, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz have usually had competitors for most of their models, with a few exceptions like the Mercedes G-Wagen. But over the past few years, all three of these brands have had to slim down their lineups and made tough decisions about which models deserved to stick around and which, as fun as some of them may have been, had to die. These cuts have created gaps in each company’s lineup, and, combined with different approaches to which EV segments they wanted to compete in first, have made each brand’s portfolio more distinct from the others than ever before.
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