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That's pretty definitive - many thanks rjr.
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Most car plants these days are just assembly plants. Design, engineer and virtual/prototype build in Germany. Source components from usual suppliers. Ship to South Africa. It doesn't matter too much who screws them all together as they usually all come in as an large assembly that are screwed/bolted/clipped to each other.
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Most car plants these days are just assembly plants. Design, engineer and virtual/prototype build in Germany. Source components from usual suppliers. Ship to South Africa. It doesn't matter too much who screws them all together as they usually all come in as an large assembly that are screwed/bolted/clipped to each other.
I am not certain it doesn't matter who screws them together as there often is lengthy period before they get things right.
When Toyota switched assembly of some versions of the Yaris to France there were quality control problems commented on in the press(and by HJ in his C-B-C Breakdown) Ditto with the Corolla assembled in UK.
I also understand that they have to purchase some components from local(as opposed to "usual") suppliers.
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A-Class Rastatt, Germany
B-Class Rastatt, Germany
C-Class Bremen, Germany or Sindelfingen, Germany or East London, South Africa
CLK Bremen, Germany
SLK Bremen, Germany
E-Class Sindelfingen, Germany
CLS Sindelfingen?
S-Class Sindelfingen, Germany
CL-Class Sindelfingen, Germany
SL Bremen, Germany
SLR Woking, UK
Maybach Sindelfingen, Germany
M-Class Tuscaloosa, USA
R-Class Tuscaloosa, USA
Vaneo Ludwigsfelde, Germany
Viano Ludwigsfelde, Germany
The old G-Wagen is made in Austria by Magna Steyr.
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Many thanks guys - this forum never disappoints!
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I may be wrong bui I read that the Viano was built in the Van plant in Spain.
That was where my V-Class was built. It was so bad I'll never touch another Merc.
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I visited MB HQ in Milton Keynes with the MB Club just before the Viano was launched. It was part of the presentation; many chuckles all round and immediate renaming as Vanio, of course. It's clear not only from MB Club members but also the V-class vans used by the guys who clean and service my cars that the predecessor to the current V-class was a consistently substandard vehicle, with body rot to prove it. MB made a great play about the new Viano being so very much better, but I wonder if they will ever recover from all the well founded scepticism out there.
In contrast, another part of the presentation was the S-class with the six-litre V12 engine that delivers 800 Nm of torque over a flat curve between 1800 and 3500 rpm. Now that's what Mercs are all about.
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Somehow I'd prefer to know that my SLR to built in Woking !
Drove a perfectly relable 330d made in Souith Africa.
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CLK, Bremen eh? Judging by the rubbish paintwork, it's continual pull to the left (tracking OK), the gallon and a half of water which poured in the passenger footwell the last time I used a carwash, the catalytic converter which went west after 58000 miles I thought it had been built in the dark by drunken umpa-lumpas.
And don't look so smug JohnnyBoy, wait until your E class front suspension collapses due to corrosion in the top spring mounting cups. I have a friend who works for a body shop repairing Mercs, bodywork corrosion is a big big problem. German quality, don't make me laugh.
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Some e classes might be built in Germany but my recently sold {garbage electronics}nearly new e class was built in South Africa
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>>C-Class Bremen, Germany or Sindelfingen, Germany or East London, South Africa>>
IIRC RHD C-Class saloons are made in SA though all estates are made in Germany, perhaps the same for the E-Class now?
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>>>R-Class Tuscaloosa, USA<<<
Does anyone know if the R-Class is a re-bodied Chrysler Pacifica?
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>>>R-Class Tuscaloosa, USA<<< Does anyone know if the R-Class is a re-bodied Chrysler Pacifica?
They are similar though IMO it is more likely to be the other way around.
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>>>R-Class Tuscaloosa, USA<<< Does anyone know if the R-Class is a re-bodied Chrysler Pacifica?
No, it isn't.
The concept is similar but the R-Class is based on the new ML-Class platform.
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C Class: for VIN no's begining with WDC in South Africa (Daimler-Chrysler), WDB in Germany (Daimler-Benz)
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