{"id":474701,"date":"2010-03-19T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17398"},"modified":"2010-03-19T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:46:41","slug":"mercedes-amg-management-shuffle-mornhinweg-out-kallenius-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474701","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-AMG Management Shuffle: Mornhinweg Out, K\u00e4llenius In"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mercedes-Benz<\/a><\/p>\n

The launch of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG<\/a>, the first dedicated AMG car, was his biggest triumph. Now Volker Mornhinweg, 50, is moving within the M-B organization to deal with bigger fish\u2014literally. From April 1, the affable car enthusiast will head the Mercedes-Benz Van division, and thus be in charge of the Sprinter and other “white vans,” as they are called in some European countries.<\/p>\n

Mornhinweg’s post will be taken over by Ola K\u00e4llenius, a Swede ten years his junior. Kallenius is currently heading Mercedes’ Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plant which produces the M-, R-, and GL-class. Before that, he was director of\u00a0 Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines Ltd. in Brixworth (UK), the racing engineering company formerly known as Ilmor.<\/p>\n

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If K\u00e4llenius’s background is any indication, he should continue Mornhinweg’s strategy of sharpening AMG’s profile from making cars that go fast (and loud) in a straight line to athletic machines that you enjoy flogging on the track and in the twisties. But one thing is also clear: AMG will have to continue making money. K\u00e4llenius faces the challenge of engineering the SLS Roadster<\/a> (with Magna), and the much-hyped fully electric version<\/a>. He will also oversee the launch of the new, more efficient turbocharged 5.5-liter V-8<\/a>, which replaces the current, naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V-8\u2014a formidable engine that was initiated under former AMG head Ulrich Bruhnke.<\/p>\n

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  2. 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG – Second Drive<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. AMG-engined 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing: Eight Were Built, One’s Up for Auction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The launch of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, the first dedicated AMG car, was his biggest triumph. Now Volker Mornhinweg, 50, is moving within the M-B organization to deal with bigger fish\u2014literally. From April 1, the affable car enthusiast will head the Mercedes-Benz Van division, and thus be in charge of the Sprinter and other “white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474701","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\/6406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}