The production of the Mercedes C-Class has been stopped in the USA
- The Daimler group decided in 2013 to transfer part of the production of the Mercedes C-Class (those destined for North America) from the Bremen plant in Germany to the Tuscaloosa plant in the United States. This transfer was made necessary by the arrival in 2015 of the Mercedes GLC SUV at the Bremen site, which succeeded the GLK. The success of the Mercedes GLC was such (170,000 sales in 2016, 200,000 sales in 2018) that part of its production was carried out in Finland, at the subcontractor Valmet.
- The success of the GLC encroached on sales of the C-Class whose sales eroded, like all sedans faced with the growth in SUV sales, both in Europe and the United States, so that the volume of Production of the C-Class was reduced significantly in Bremen and Tuscaloosa between 2015 and 2020. The production of the C-Class in Bremen thus fell from 215,000 units in 2016 to 180,000 in 2018 and 120,000 in 2020, its sales in Europe following the same trajectory.
- In the United States, sales of the C-Class increased from 86,000 units in 2015 to 60,000 in 2018, 50,000 in 2019 and 25,000 in 2020. As a result, production of the C-Class in Tuscaloosa decreased from 98 000 units in 2015 to 70,000 in 2018, 47,000 in 2019 and 15,000 in 2020. Daimler therefore decided to stop production of the C-Class in the United States last fall. The Bremen plant will take over deliveries of the C-Class to North America.
- This Daimler announcement coincides with the one confirming the cessation of production of Mercedes sedans in Brazil (including the C-Class). The manufacturer will now only manufacture Sprinter trucks and vans there.
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