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      <title>75 years of racing car carriers for Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows are celebrating their 75th anniversary this year, having first blazed to victory on the world’s racetracks back in 1934. Their drivers have become legends, with names like Rudolf Caracciola and Manfred von Brauchitsch still ringing in the ears of motor sports enthusiasts. However, neither the Silver Arrows of yesteryear nor those of today rolled to the racetrack under their own power. The sensitive high-performance vehicles, whether for Formula 1 or touring races, need a perfect infrastructure. Races could not be run without racing car carriers, and consequently there could be no racing victories. Some of the Mercedes racing car carriers are no less spectacular than the racing vehicles they transport. Next year the racing car carriers will once again be used in the Formula 1 races by a works team sporting the Mercedes star - the Mercedes Grand Prix.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Topics</category>
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      <title>Mercedes-Benz Fire &amp; Rescue impresses the specialists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[International vehicle specialists from the bodybuilding sector for firefighting vehicles recently came together for a two-day event to find out about new products from the special-purpose vehicles product unit at Mercedes-Benz. The focus was on the different Unimog model series, the new all-wheel drive Zetros truck and the Econic with its low and high cab variants.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks</category>
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      <title>Brazil is 2009 the largest market for Mercedes-Benz trucks in the world</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brazil is the largest market for Mercedes-Benz trucks in the world in this year. Between January and September 2009, the Brazilian unit of Daimler Trucks registered sales volume of more than 23,000 units of all weight classes. This equals a decrease of -20% compared to the same period of the record year 2008, a decline that has been much lower than in other major Mercedes-Benz truck market worldwide.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Daimler Trucks North America Introduces Two New Freightliner Coronado Trucks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has presented its customers two new heavy-duty Class 8 trucks: the updated Freightliner Coronado for on-highway use and the Freightliner Coronado Severe Duty (SD) for vocational applications such as construction sector or municipalities.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Daimler Trucks North America &gt; Freightliner Trucks</category>
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      <title>Fuso delivers Series-production Hybrid Trucks to Europe For the First Time</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has sold ten hybrid trucks to an Irish company. The Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid is the first series-production hybrid truck to be sold in Europe. The customer is Ireland’s leading utility company, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in Dublin. ESB plans to use the vehicles for customer service and for infrastructure maintenance in Ireland. The Irish Government has granted a special permit for the Japanese hybrid trucks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mitsubishi Fuso</category>
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      <title>Ideal workhorse for stonemasons and sculptors</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Flexibility and cost-effectiveness are two of the outstanding traits of the Fuso Canter, making it a true workhorse for trades and crafts. Even stonemasons and sculptors appreciate the qualities and attributes of the Fuso Canter, using it on an increasing basis for their tough day-to-day assignments. Whether it be transporting raw materials such as stone blocks and slabs from the quarry to the workshop or moving effigies and gravestones to graveyards or resting places.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mitsubishi Fuso</category>
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      <title>Mitsubishi Fuso Enters Puerto Rico Market, Establishing Further Presence in NAFTA</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), one of Asia’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, has announced its market entry into the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The company has completed a sales and service agreement with the wholesale company Guaraguao Truck Sales, based in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mitsubishi Fuso</category>
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      <title>Daimler Trucks and Kamaz Implement Specific Projects as Part of their Strategic Partnership</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Daimler Trucks and Kamaz are making progress in the implementation of joint projects. The basis of the projects is the strategic partnership that Daimler Trucks established with Kamaz, Russian Technologies, and the investment bank Troika Dialog in December 2008. In connection with this partnership, Daimler acquired a 10 percent stake in Kamaz.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks</category>
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      <title>Mercedes-Benz Brazil hires 800 new employees for truck and bus production</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz do Brasil is hiring 800 new employees to work in trucks and buses production, in its plant in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. Furthermore, the current 350 temporary employees will become regular contract employees during October. Additionally to the mentioned figures the company will take over 160 apprentices as regular employees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Company &gt; Locations &gt; Outside Germany &gt; Brazil</category>
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      <title>Two unusual oldtimers - combined Unimog age of more than 100 years</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Unimog, the most versatile product in the Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle range, amply demonstrates the creative prescience of the automobile engineers at Daimler AG. The very first design draft for the Unimog dating from September 1945 already features installation spaces for mowing equipment, a plough, a load platform and a fitting for trailer operation. Today Unimog vehicle technology has reached a level unrivalled anywhere in the world, with three model series for municipal and construction operations, the energy industry, fire protection and the emergency services, combined road/rail applications, agricultural maintenance work and the transport sector, and/or as a carrier for an extraordinary variety of working implements.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <category>Daimler Trucks &gt; Mercedes-Benz CVs &gt; Special Trucks &gt; Unimog</category>
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