Mercedes pickup won't be a 'fat cowboy truck'

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The Mercedes Benz pick-up that's not a Unimog is coming, and and it will reveal some underpinnings with the Nissan NP300 Navara pick-up, Automotive News Europe reviews.
The most recent Nissan Navara NP300 1-ton truck made its advent in the metal in the Frankfurt motor display, with Daimler declaring plans to put it to use as the base to get a yet-unnamed mid-size pickup which is sold in several markets below the Mercedes Benz badge. Renault also previewed a variation in the type of the Renault Alaskan theory.
The Mercedes Benz pick-up is a commodity of Daimler's engineering-sharing coalition with Renault-Nissan, using the latter supplying the Navara in several marketplaces. North America obtained a variation of the Navara as the Nissan Frontier in 1997, though it is wise to indicate that it differed from other variants of the Navara, every one of which was tweaked and re named for just about every marketplace.
"The Mercedesbenz pick-up will lend nicely to our international growth goals," Mercedesbenz leader Dieter Zetsche said before in the entire year. "We are going to enter this section with our distinctive brand identity and all the vehicle characteristics which are typical of the business name pertaining to security, relaxation, powertrains and worth."
Mercedes Benz, because of its part, has been dropping hints regarding the approaching pick-up, with MB vans head Volker Mornhinweg at one-point saying that it could not be a "fat cowboy truck for The United States."
However, Stuttgart is guaranteeing an upscale, high-end inside, so we are able to anticipate it to cost north of the Nissan and Renault variations. As for power-plants, they can be likely to vary by industry, although the Mercedesbenz variation is likely to make use of its engines, including diesels. There are definitely more than enough to select from in the auto-maker world-wide parts bin.
Besides the queries of what engines will-power it and if its seats could have a massaging perform, the most pressing issue for us is whether it will soon be supplied in the U.S.
If it were to be provided in the US, it'd have to be assembled here because of the chicken tax, and so far the only two crops that have been verified to make the three trucks are in Argentina and Spain. The plant in Spain is the one which 'll make the Mercedes Benz truck for the European marketplace, with production anticipated to begin in 2018.
Mercedes Benz has shown a better readiness to provide vans in the US with the coming of the Metris as the most cost-effective product in the line, but we have yet to find them expand that to trucks.

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17.09.2015
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