Mercedes-Benz plans for $5m expansion

Thursday, February 7, 2008 | Source: Oakland Business Review

Mercedes-Benz may have big plans for Ann Arbor. The automaker is considering adding new services to its Ann Arbor facility in addition to an expansion already underway. This would increase Mercedes' local staff from 13 to about 17 and includes testing the Smart Fourtwo, which went on sale earlier this month.

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Mercedes wants to bring about four product engineers from its corporate base in Germany to help develop cars for the United States market. The Ann Arbor site would join a facility in Long Beach as the only two in North America with those capabilities, said Chuck Cetnar, a laboratory quality engineer.

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