Mercedes-Benz has started production of the latest C-Class at its US plant in Tuscaloosa/Alabama, the third global source.
This is the first C to be made in Tuscaloosa which up till now has built SUVs only.
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Some previous generation C-class for the US were assembled in Daimler’s under-utilised Brazilian first generation A-class plant which has since been converted to build trucks.
Production in Beijing, China, will begin “shortly”, Mercedes said.
The Tuscaloosa C-class goes on sale in the US and Canada next autumn.
Bremen is the model’s lead plant and 100 Tuscaloosa workers were trained there.
