When 150 Mercedes rolled into Aurangabad

[Trisonics]

Quick question, does MBIL have production facilities in India?

Yes, Tata and Force motors(bajaj) supply spare parts to Mercedes for decades now. For example, the gurkha uses the OM616 Mercedes engine, which is manufactured in house and infact looks a lot like the G wagon from Mercedes

Tata also manufactured Mercedes trucks

 

[Beacon]

Yes, Tata and Force motors(bajaj) supply spare parts to Mercedes for decades now. For example, the gurkha uses the OM616 Mercedes engine, which is manufactured in house and infact looks a lot like the G wagon from Mercedes

Tata also manufactured Mercedes trucks

Yes... OM611 and OM616 are being assembled under license by Force motors in india.
and it has very high indigenous content...

 

[Beacon]

Mercedes trucks are not produced in India. MB has started setting up a production plant near chennai.

But it will take a long time for that to happen. Infact they were contemplating to take over Volvo, thereby also getting the volvo plant in bangalore.. but nothing happened so far...

ofcourse, mercedes are assembling cars in pune, india. They used to share the premises with tata car plant until recently..

 

[Trisonics]

Mercedes trucks are not produced in India. MB has started setting up a production plant near chennai.

But it will take a long time for that to happen.

WRONG!

Here from the Merc web site
http://www.mercedes-benz.co.in/cont...e-MEDIA.tmp/Truck & Bus Newsletter May 09.pdf

Also, as I stated before they had a joint venture with TATAs in the 50s that included manufacturing under license

 

[Hulk]

I'm thinking along the same lines also.

I don't know how this lavish and extreme purchase of Mercs changes the infrastructure, the educational facilities, industry, telecommunications etc of Aurangabad.

Am I missing something here?

DGMO this is personal wealth of businessmen and not charity affair. Clearly visible they want to boast wealth and not do charity.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Yes... OM611 and OM616 are being assembled under license by Force motors in india.
and it has very high indigenous content...

OM611 and OM616 engines have been long discontinued by Benz. Kinetic Engineering (Force motors) bought the full line and set it up in India. There is no connection between Benz and Force. Just as the tech transfer between Benz and Tata had ceased long ago.

 

[Fireurimagination]

The C-Class and E-Class are assembled locally while others are fully imported from Germany.

Daimler is building a commercial vehicle plant outside of Chennai with an investment of 700 million Euros.

Even the S class is now assembled in India and even one sports car from Mercedes stable (I am not sure sure about the model name) with the price tag of 1.2 crores is assembled in India

Mercedes S 500L: The Beautiful Beast in India - The Times of India

 

[Dark Angel]

What effectively this has contributed is flight of 65 corore to europe when it could have been invested locally in a much effective manner to boost local economy and image..foolish move indeed.

Bas choti soch ...........................

 

[third eye]

The pic in post # 17 is of 1954 vintage . Tata began by making trucks in collaboration with Mercedes . These trucks were in the IA till 70's they were called TMB's.

Quite like Ashok Leyland.

 

[Cheetah786]

Article dosent mention what class for 65 crore ?




Mercedes-Benz India Private Limited
E-3, MIDC Chakan, Phase – III
Chakan Industrial Area
Kuruli & Nighoje, Taluka : Khed
Pune – 410 501
India Phone Phone: +91 2135 67300-0 Fax +91 2135 673953 ProductionAssembly of Mercedes-Benz Passenger vehicles, ACTROS Trucks and Mercedes-Benz Bus Chassis

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

^ My guess, E class. Its approx 40Lakh INR (78Lakh PKR). 65 Crore INR = 127 Crore PKR. So 150 E class Merc are possible in above mentioned amount.