MERCEDES-BENZ will discontinue manufacturing of the Citan mild industrial van – and its T-Class passenger counterpart – because the model’s cooperation with Renault involves an finish.
Based mostly upon the Renault Kangoo, the Mercedes-Benz Citan and T-Class are produced at Renault’s Mauberge facility in northern France. The choice is not going to influence manufacturing of the Kangoo vary.
Within the meantime, German publication Automobilwoche says the axing of the Mercedes-Benz Citan and T-Class will enable the German producer to give attention to its extra worthwhile Vito, V-Class, and Sprinter ranges because it pursues progress in additional worthwhile segments.
Whole gross sales of Mercedes-Benz vans fell 9 per cent to 405,610 items in 2024 with gross sales of the Citan down three per cent to 23,351 and the T-Class down 31 per cent to simply 5117 items.
Automobilwoche experiences that Mercedes-Benz is to reuse various elements from its present electrical structure in its new Van.EA electrical platform that can underpin a brand new technology of all-electric mild industrial vans by mid-2026.
It’s understood the corporate plans to current a “close to manufacturing” model of the Imaginative and prescient V van at subsequent week’s Shanghai Auto Present.
Mercedes-Benz and Renault are lowering their industrial partnership that additionally included the Sensible ForFour based mostly on the Renault Twingo till 2021, and the usage of Renault engines in Mercedes-Benz fashions together with the A-Class, B-Class, C-Class, CLA-Class, GLA-Class, Citan, and Vito.
Domestically, gross sales of Mercedes-Benz mild industrial automobiles are monitoring effectively, up 12.8 per cent on this time final 12 months to 1126 items.
Highlights embody the Sprinter bus with Q1 gross sales of twenty-two items (up 69.2 per cent), Vito and e-Vito van with gross sales of 108 items (up 16.1 per cent), Sprinter van with gross sales of 885 items (up 9.3 per cent), V-Class passenger van with gross sales of 79 items (up 14.5 per cent), and Vito and e-Vito Tour passenger vans with gross sales of twenty-two items (up 214.3 per cent).
With Automobilwoche and VFACTS
