With a tug, Volker Mornhinweg pulled a covering off a life-size clay model of the pickup truck that Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz intends to enter the global market for midsize haulers. Before him stands ...

Because Mercedes-Benz once thought that everything that exists in the world, including pickup truck workhorses, could be turned into a luxury item, the German company foolishly presented the X-Class ...