MERCEDES-BENZ MANUFACTURING GROUP SOUTH AFRICA
The Mercedes-Benz East London plant is part of the global production network for the C-Class. On South Africa’s Eastern Cape, C-Class sedan cars for right and left-hand drive markets are produced for export. Since the production launch in 2021, the current C-Class, the sixth vehicle generation of the high-volume model, has been manufactured here.
In 1958 Car Distributors Assembly Ltd. began contract manufacturing for Mercedes-Benz vehicles. In 1984 the then Daimler-Benz AG acquired 50.1 percent of United Cars and Diesel Distributors UCDD. Since then, the company has been registered as Mercedes-Benz of South Africa (MBSA).
A new dimension of sustainability.
December 12, 2025 – Mercedes Benz unveils the Tomorrow XX¹ technology programme as a driver of innovation in support of the company’s sustainability objectives. It leverages the same holistic, multi-disciplinary approach so successfully demonstrated with VISION EQXX and CONCEPT AMG GT XX.
Experts in Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability.
December 12, 2025 – Mercedes-Benz Group AG announces upcoming changes to its Supervisory Board. Katharina Beumelburg and Rashmi Misra will be proposed for election to the Supervisory Board at the 2026 Annual General Meeting.
Principles of Social Responsibility and Human Rights.
The Principles of Social Responsibility and Human Rights are the binding basis for the implementation of human rights standards at Mercedes-Benz.
Aerodynamics at Mercedes-Benz.
Aerodynamic optimisation offers a wide range of advantages in everyday driving: more range, more comfort and more safety. We have a long tradition of aerodynamic record values and modern measuring equipment.
Next Level Production.
September 08, 2025 – Mercedes-Benz is ready for the largest product offensive in its history and plans more than 40 vehicles across its network over the next three years. With “Next Level Production”, Mercedes-Benz will use digitalization and automation as key levers to make its global production network and the production of the new models more flexible, efficient, and sustainable.
Test and Technology Centre Immendingen.
October 02, 2025 – With the new, state-of-the-art light testing centre, designed for versatile use, Mercedes Benz is once again expanding the diverse testing capabilities of the Global Proving Ground Immendingen. At 135 metres long and eight metres high, the new Light Testing Centre ranks among the largest of its kind in the automotive industry. It enables detailed testing of headlight systems under constant, reproducible conditions – independent of time of day, weather or environmental influences.