Mercedes-Benz is dropping the Freightliner Sprinter van in the U.S. at the stop of the 2021 design 12 months, with output ending at a South Carolina plant in September 2021.
Income are predicted to stop by Dec. 31, 2021, the enterprise instructed Freightliner dealers this week.
Mercedes has bought the Sprinter van, redesigned in 2018, by two channels, Freightliner and Mercedes-Benz dealers, and will go on to make and marketplace Mercedes versions.
The enterprise cited many components for the conclusion to drop the Freightliner van, introduced in the U.S. in 2001, together with current and foreseeable future financial problems as nicely as the COVID-19 outbreak.
Mercedes-Benz is also examining its worldwide products lineup to lessen fees and complexity.
“The large homologation fees for a single-marketplace, reduced-quantity products as the U.S.-only Freightliner Sprinter model were central to this conclusion,” Robert Veit, vice president and taking care of director of Daimler Vans, instructed dealers in a letter this week. “We will be doing work in shut interaction with the Freightliner Sprinter Dealer Board as we roll out the essential steps to discontinue the distribution of Freightliner Sprinter.”
U.S. sales of the Sprinter rose seven.4 percent to 32,000 final 12 months, and 19 percent to 14,582 in the to start with fifty percent of 2020. A Mercedes-Benz spokeswoman stated the Mercedes design accounts for the bulk of deliveries.
There are 36 Freightliner dealers in the U.S.
