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Daimler AG is planning on offering a compact car and a small SUV under the Mercedes-Benz badge in the United States but has not decided on the timing. According to Mercedes-Benz sales and marketing chief Joachim Schmidt, the hatchback and the SUV will be both be based on the next-generation B-Class scheduled to debut in Europe at the end of next year.<\/p>\n
He said that\u00a0”a very stylish sedan” that will be sold in Europe as part of the new four-vehicle B-Class family also is being considered for the United States.<\/p>\n
Schmidt says that the U.S. launch schedule of the two models has not been determined due to uncertainty of the euro-dollar exchange rate. However, Schmidt admits that the United States appears to be ready for a premium small car. He said that the key to the B-Class’ success in the North American market will be alternative powertrains such as a plug-in electric or fuel-cell.<\/p>\n
– By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n Source: Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n Daimler AG is planning on offering a compact car and a small SUV under the Mercedes-Benz badge in the United States but has not decided on the timing. According to Mercedes-Benz sales and marketing chief Joachim Schmidt, the hatchback and the SUV will be both be based on the next-generation B-Class scheduled to debut in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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