Breaking characteristics of the traditional luxury cars driven back, three years, Mercedes-Benz will introduce front-drive architecture in the U.S. under the new shape a coupe, sport utility or may is a small wagon or hatchback.
Joachim Schmidt, head of global marketing for Mercedes, said the company will grow at least 4 model is built on the MFA (Mercedes Front-wheel-drive Architecture) architecture driven a Mercedes before. "We will introduce a new generation of MFA to the American family," Schmidt said in an interview. "Two variants, possibly even three had been planned for the U.S. market.". A coupe will be introduced in the U.S. in the summer of 2013. Mercedes family members are called "baby CLS" due to the similar design with 4-door coupe CLS brand bigger. An AMG version (of the Mercedes cars) will be available in Europe and America.
An SUV is intended to rival the BMW would follow in the summer of 2014. Both will be sold in Europe before launching the U.S. market from 3 to 5 months.
In Europe, Mercedes will introduce next generation B-class hatchback in the last year and the next A-class hatchback in the summer of 2012.
Previously, Mercedes had no plans to sell the car driven in America before, but now seeing a demand in this market. Mercedes said that "America is not a market characterized by compact hatchback car, but if demand increases, we will quickly introduce two versions in the U.S."
Schmidt said, a second variant 5 is built on front-drive architecture being discussed to make the U.S. and Europe. The small wagon has the best chance to be put into production this fall.
"Renault-Nissan's new partner Mercedes are very interested in technology to upgrade the MFA of Nissan and Infiniti brands sold in the U.S., the largest market for Infiniti. Schmidt said that Daimler is discussing this issue with Nissan, but two sides remain far no decision "Schmidt said.
Daimler will increase the supply of diesel engines in the U.S.. The company's plan is to S class cars become more fuel-efficient car in luxury by offering diesel 6-cylinder S350 Bluetec in the coming months. Schmidt said, between this time, C-Class with four-cylinder diesel engine was also followed.
The company hopes the car will reach consumers early next year.
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