Announcement of ‘Light Commercial Production’ by Mercedes-Benz

In a news we shared with you in the past days, we have been talking about the products produced in Turkey for 20 years. of Fiat Doblo Since it will be produced in Spain in the next period we talked about. Now there has been a parallel development. Speaking to Habertürk, Tufan Akdeniz, Member of the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz Automotive Light Commercial Vehicles Product Group, of Mercedes-Benz He said that he can manufacture light commercial vehicles in Turkey. However, our country is not suitable for this at the moment.

Speaking about the withdrawal of production of both Mercedes-Benz and Fiat Doblo Flood Mediterraneandescribed the departure of Fiat Doblo from Turkey as “sad”. “Doblo’s production going abroad It is a loss for Turkey. An ecosystem with its suppliers had developed around that model, it was a huge investment.According to Tufan Akdeniz, this situation is a challenge for Mercedes-Benz. will not benefit. Because Mercedes brings its light commercial vehicles to our country as imported.

We are considering the production of light commercial vehicles in Turkey, but…

Tufan Akdeniz stated that Mercedes-Benz is considering the production of light commercial vehicles in Turkey, but domestic market conditions It says it’s not suitable. According to Akdeniz, Mercedes-Benz needs to sell half of its vehicles in order to carry out light commercial production in Turkey, and this does not seem possible at the moment. However, the Mercedes-Benz manager left the door open for production in Turkey. if one day if conditions changethe company will officially start production in Turkey.

Tufan Akdeniz’s statements about the possibility of production in Turkey are as follows:Continuing the production of light commercial vehicles in Turkey at the company headquarters in Germany keep it on the agenda we are working. We need to catch the economic scale for production. For this, we need to be convinced that we can sell half of the vehicles we will produce in the domestic market. However, the feasibility is not yet about sustainable domestic sales. promising doesn’t, production can be made on the promised day. There is always a desire and a plan for the production of light commercial vehicles in Turkey…”