Mercedes-Benz 9G-TRONIC production begins

By CARSIFU | 5 April 2016


STUTTGART: Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its world's first nine-speed 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission for premium vehicles with rear-wheel, all-wheel, hybrid or plug-in hybrid drive.

The German luxury coach builder touts its new gearbox to be excellent in terms of smoothness with scarcely perceptible gear-shifts and in turn improves on both efficiency and noise levels.

At its launch, the 9G-TRONIC has been made available in the Mercedes-Benz E 350 BlueTEC and the GLE Coupé (C 292) was the first model series to be equipped from the outset with this transmission.

The all-new E-Class drive variations available at market launch are now equipped as standard with the new transmission with further plans for it to be used in almost all Mercedes-Benz model series with a longitudinally mounted engine.

Production of the transmission has already begun at Daimler's (Mercedes-Benz's parent company) Romanian subsidiary Star Assembly in Sebes and will be investing a further 300 million euros to expand its transmission-manufacturing capacity.

This will translate into 1,000 new jobs being created for the new production area that covers the size of around ten football fields, which will have some 500km of cables and roughly 5,000 tonnes of metal for its construction.

“With the expansion of transmission production in Sebes, we are able to respond more flexibly and efficiently to the growing demand for automatic transmissions,” said Mercedes-Benz Cars (manufacturing and supply chain management) divisional board member Markus Schäfer.

 

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