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      <title>Top marks for customer value and innovative production: E-Class: Best Bodyshell 2009</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Mercedes E-Class wins the coveted "EuroCarBody Award 2009". At EuroCarBody, the world's largest car body benchmarking conference, a jury made up of about 400 conference delegates and board members voted the E-Class as the car with the best bodyshell. A total of nine new series-production bodies were presented in detail and scrutinised at the Euro-CarBody event held in Bad Nauheim, Germany at the end of October. The candidates included the Jaguar XJ, Audi R8 spyder and BMW 5 Series GT.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Diners Club Magazine award: E-Class has &quot;best power-to-economy ratio&quot;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The readers of the Diners Club Magazine have elected the Mercedes E 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY as the "Car of the year with the best power-to-economy ratio". Thanks to its state-of-the-art diesel technology, the 150-kW/204-hp engine burns just 5.3 litres of diesel per 100 kilometres on the combined NEDC cycle. This equates to 139 grams of CO2 per kilometre.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; Special Topics &gt; Awards</category>
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      <title>Luxury class series with the highest value retention: Mercedes E-Class: quality pays</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whether as a Saloon, Coupé or Estate variant, the new Mercedes E-Class has the highest value retention of any luxury segment model series in Germany. In three years time these models will command the highest resale values in their segment, according to a prognosis by the independent market research institute Bähr & Fess Forecast. This one again confirms the high value retention of Mercedes-Benz vehicles.
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; The new E-Class</category>
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      <title>&quot;Proper casualty rescue&quot;: Daimler provides training to fire services</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and smart - all car brands which feature among the world's safest vehicles. The high potential for protection is a result of the holistic approach taken by Daimler AG, which focuses on avoiding traffic accidents as well as reducing both the severity and the consequences of accidents. Admittedly protection mechanisms are pushed to their limits when the underlying conditions make the intervention of controlling measures difficult:]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; Special Topics &gt; Safety</category>
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      <title>Mercedes-Benz Boosts Sales by Seven Percent</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In October, global sales were up at Mercedes-Benz for the first time this year. Mercedes-Benz was able to increase sales significantly in October by seven percent to 88,400 units (October 2008: 82,500. The smart brand sold 9,300 (October 2008: 11,300) units (minus 18 percent). With the delivery of 97,700 passenger cars (October 2008: 93,800), total sales at Mercedes-Benz Cars increased by four percent. The October sales increase was due to the E-Class and the new generation of the S-Class as well as to high growth rates in many regions such as North America and Asia/Pacific.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Company &gt; Business News</category>
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      <title>The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is the best super sports car: The new Gullwing model from Mercedes-Benz wins the &quot;Golden Steering Wheel 2009&quot; award</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than a quarter of a million readers took part, and voted the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG the world's best super sports car by a wide margin. Accordingly "Bild am Sonntag", "Auto Bild" and 25 associated European publications awarded the new Gullwing model the "Golden Steering Wheel" - one of the most important automotive awards in Europe. This coveted award was officially presented to Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Cars, in Berlin yesterday evening. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; Special Topics &gt; Awards</category>
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      <title>The new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Automotive fascination and high-tech at the highest level: the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, which is due to be launched in spring 2010. This Gullwing model captivates with a purist design, intelligent lightweight construction and superior handling dynamics, and is bound to cause a sensation in the super sports car segment. The new SLS AMG is nothing short of a masterpiece by Mercedes-AMG GmbH.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; AMG &gt; SLS AMG</category>
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      <title>Expansion of Mercedes-Benz Rastatt Plant: Daimler invests EUR 600 million in center of excellence for compact vehicles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz is further expanding its center of excellence for compact vehicles by enlarging its Rastatt plant with an investment of 600 million euros. In addition, a further 800 million euros will be invested in a new plant at the Hungarian location of Kecskemét. The Company’s total investments for these two locations thus amount to approximately 1.4 billion euros. The first vehicles of the successor generation to the current A- and B-Class will roll off the assembly lines in Rastatt from the end of 2011.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Company &gt; Locations &gt; Rastatt</category>
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      <title>Performance Package Plus: enhanced performance for successful AMG model: C 63 AMG with a shot of SLS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Enhanced driving dynamics ex factory for the Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG: the new Performance Package Plus is an attractive optional extra that is designed to appeal to the power-hungry sports driver. The Perfor-mance Package Plus increases output by 22 kW/30 hp to 358 kW/487 hp. As a result, the C-Class approaches the level of performance offered by C-Class DTM vehicles, which deliver 377 kW/500 hp.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; C-Class &gt; Sedan &gt; C 63 AMG</category>
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      <title>Navigation 20: Navigation system for the Mercedes-Benz Audio 20 CD available</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz will in future offer a fully integrated navigation system - called 'Navigation 20' - for its standard Audio 20 CD high-performance radio. The new device is based on highly sophisticated technology and offers numerous navigation features - including variable map displays, a realistic display of the roadscape at motorway exits, TMC traffic reports and comprehensive country-specific information. It is also equipped with connections for most audio sources. Navigation 20 can simply be installed into the Audio 20 CD at any Mercedes-Benz service partner.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Mercedes-Benz Cars &gt; Mercedes-Benz P. Cars &gt; Accessories &gt; Accessories</category>
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