Michael Bauer (left) Head of Production Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant and Site Manager and Ergun Lümali, Chairman of the Works Council.
The Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant has been given the go-ahead to build an additional model series. The GLC SUV will roll off the production line as of 2022. The GLC has been rolling off the production line at the high-capacity Mercedes-Benz Bremen plant, which is the “competence center” for the C-Class and the GLC, since June 2015. It’s also built at the Chinese production site at Beijing Benz Automotive Corporation (BBAC) in Beijing for the local market since October 2015, and at the “production partner” Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland, since the beginning of 2017. (Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa Starts GLS Production, and Mercedes GLC 63 S 4Matic+ Fastest SUV on Nürburgring)
Since market launch in 2008, more than 1.5 million GLK models and its successor, the GLC, have been sold. In the past 10 years the GLC, including GLK, was the best-selling SUV from Mercedes-Benz. In 2018 it achieved a new global sales best. The biggest markets for the model series last year were China, the USA and Germany. Continue reading
2019 Corvette Grand Sport to Pace 103rd Indianapolis 500
No other brand or vehicle has served as the 500 Pace Car more than Chevrolet and the Corvette, respectively. However, Roger Penske (Aussie Will Power Wins the 102nd Indianapolis 500 for Penske) has done far better than Chevrolet with 17 victories in the run for the Hoosier milk, which in 2018 Power spilled all over himself, the parade Queen and others in the winner’s circle. Alongside him his wife, Elizabeth Cannon Power, was lovingly hysterical and elated. When she started breathing again and could speak – she was as entertaining as the race.
A far bigger story this year – Chevrolet to Power Fernando Alonso’s 2019 Indy 500 McLaren – is watching to see if Alonso – given his win in the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans coupled with his win at Monaco in 2006 – became one of only 13 drivers to win two of the three legs of the Triple Crown of Motorsports (Monaco, 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500). With a victory in the 2019 Indianapolis 500, he would join Graham Hill as the only other driver to complete the triumvirate. Continue reading →