Toyota is a great car manufacturer, and is well known, but doesnt have the hipe of a benz. Benz has been around for a long time, is dedicated to the customers inconically compared to other manufacturers, and is targeted towards the luxury and beauty. It is beleived that Benz is better because of the quality of the manufacture and parts, and the no cut's policy, but because of this they are very pricey. Toyota does make very efficient cars, but Amerca's fanatism for efficiency is pretty new, it is unknown but Benz has a diesel variety of the E320 Bluetec, which gets 40 mpg, and better if driven responsibly. Although this variety is rare in America due to the stigma of diesels being load and whatnot, which was created back when GM built a diesel engine in the cadillac that failed miserably. Obviously though this stigma is no longer true, the diesel engine in most new cars are just as quite as gas cars, and are much more efficient if designed to be so (due to the higher power of the fuel and the method of the diesel engine itself). Yes Toyota makes great and cheap efficient cars, but when it comes to it their are many other manufacturers that compete with Toyota and do so very well.
