For those of you interested in where production of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sports Coupe takes place, DaimlerChrysler announced yesterday that in the future the compact C-Class will be born at its plant in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Production is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2007, following the conclusion of the plant's current-generation C-Class assembly cycle.

According to Rainer Schmückle, Chief Operating Officer of the Mercedes Car Group and and the man responsible for worldwide production: “With this decision, we are using the existing know-how and the capacity of the production site in Brazil.”

The Brazilian plant will be the only plant to still produce the C-Class Sports Coupe, which will be targeted mainly at the European market. In the future, DaimlerChrysler's Sindelfingen plant, currently producing the C-Class Sports Coupe model, will focus on production of the new-generation C-Class lineup.

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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE


DaimlerChrysler to produce Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sports Coupé in Juiz de Fora

Stuttgart/Juiz de Fora , Jul 17, 2006
DaimlerChrysler announced today that the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sports Coupé will in the future be produced in its plant of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Production will begin in the first quarter of 2007, following the conclusion of the assembly cycle of the C-Class, which is currently produced there.

“With this decision, we are using the existing know-how and the capacity of the production site in Brazil”, says Rainer Schmückle, Chief Operating Officer of the Mercedes Car Group and responsible for worldwide production.

The plant in Juiz de Fora will be the only one to produce the C-Class Sports Coupé, which will be destined mainly for the European markets. The model is currently being manufactured at the DaimlerChrysler plant in Sindelfingen, which in the future will be focusing on the production of sedans of the new-generation C-Class.

In Juiz de Fora, the plant will implement the necessary adaptations to its assembly lines to be able to produce the Sports Coupé.

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