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As the country’s largest luxury car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz looks back on a 25 year long history in India with a local assembly site and its local entity Mercedes-Benz India. In 1994, Mercedes-Benz Cars started assembling cars locally. Back then, the production site was located in the Tata Motors (Telco) premises. In 2009, Mercedes-Benz India inaugurated a new manufacturing plant spread over 100 acres in Chakan, Pune. The plant, where Mercedes-Benz Cars “Made in India” are assembled today, is also celebrating its ten year anniversary in 2019. The local assembly in Pune sets assembly standards in flexibility: nine different models are built under one roof. The Mercedes-Benz portfolio manufactured in Pune includes: the sedan of the C-Class, E-Class, S-Class and CLA Coupé as well as Maybach S-Class and the SUVs GLA, GLC, GLE and GLS. The plant is equipped with Virtual Reality technology and other state-of-the-art digital manufacturing technologies which will be roll-out to other assembly plants worldwide.

Stuttgart/Pune. 25 years of “Made in India”: This year marks two major milestones for the local success story of Mercedes-Benz Cars assembly in India. As a pioneer of the luxury regional car market, twenty-five years ago, the local production of Mercedes-Benz Cars started and the business unit Mercedes-Benz India was founded in the same year. The second celebration taking place in 2019 is the ten year anniversary of the independent Mercedes-Benz plant in Pune. “25 years –that’s how long we have been assembling locally in India. To produce, where our customers are located, distinguishes our Mercedes-Benz Cars global production network: A maximum of flexibility, state-of-the-art digital technology and passionate people. As the country’s largest luxury carmaker, both anniversaries celebrated this year are significant landmarks for us, the region of Pune and an important sign for the local luxury car market in India”, states Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain Management.

Since the local assembly of Mercedes-Benz Cars was set-up in Chakan, Pune and Mercedes-Benz India was established, many milestones have been reached and premiers for the assembly have taken place: One major step was realized ten years ago, when Mercedes-Benz Cars opened its first independent plant in Chakan-Pune. Spread over 100 acres, 730 people work at the plant where ‘Made in India’ Mercedes-Benz passenger cars are built today. The plant plays an important role in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars, its local assembly sets standards in many aspects: The plant incorporates state-of-the-art digital technologies, works highly flexible and efficient and has a people-focused manufacturing process. Moreover, the plant has a high competence for the local Indian market: As the country’s largest luxury carmaker, from January to September 2019 Mercedes-Benz India maintained its market leadership in the luxury car market in India. “From its humble beginning 25 years back to its current position of strength of being a leading local assembly plant in the global production network, Mercedes-Benz India has successfully established the prowess of local manufacturing in India. Our state-of-art manufacturing facility is the backbone of our growth story in India and serves a very important role within the network, especially for setting up a new local assembly facility or ramp up of series production across geographies. With the advent of new technologies and digitization in the automobile industry in India, Mercedes-Benz has already been pioneering digitization in vehicle manufacturing and is well poised to become future ready by rapidly adapting such future trends,” commented Piyush Arora, Executive Director, Operations, Mercedes-Benz India.

Source: Daimler

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Can such a thread be complete without a picture of Mercedes India's finest ? A well-maintained W124 will turn the heads of enthusiasts even today . Although customers were upset with Benz bringing the W124 here instead of the W210 that launched internationally, I would go with the W124 any which day. Make mine in petrol which - with a 0 - 100 of ~10 seconds - is fairly quick even by current standards.

A design that has aged splendidly:

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Agree with you Rush! When the W124 was launched - people did not accept the model very easily since the W210 was out internationally. Little did everyone know that in a few years, the W124 would go on to be a collectible and a much sought after future classic.

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Mercedes-Benz is celebrating 25 years since production first began in India in 1994.



In the beginning, Mercedes-Benz cars were assembled in the Tata Motors (Telco) premises. In 2009, the Chakan plant, spread over 100 acres was inaugurated. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of this factory.



Today, the factory employs 730 people and is said to be the first local assembly of Mercedes to implement Virtual Reality technology in the training process. New digital technologies are paving the way towards a paperless factory.



The Mercedes-Benz portfolio in India comprises of models like the C-Class, E-Class, S-Class, CLA Coupe, Maybach S-Class, GLA, GLC, GLE and GLS SUVs.

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Originally Posted by TusharK

Mercedes-Benz is celebrating 25 years since production first began in India in 1994.

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If I am correct, this is pre-facelift w124 on display, which was never produced in India. See the turn indicators, bumpers & alloys
MBIL could have contacted numerous Indian made w124 lovers who would have been happy to lend their beauties for the event