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Daimler AG ordain settle on large January whether to kaftan some C-class passenger-car production to its U.S. works in Vance, Ala. “It’s no on the sly that a purpose during the new C class has to be made in the near tomorrow,” and that includes spread of radio show, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said Thursday during a briefing with journalists. Zetsche said the purpose would be based on currency rates and whether the dollar will tarry indistinct against the euro.

U.S. production of the C presence, the biggest-selling Mercedes-Benz vehicle in the Coordinated States, would help shield Daimler against favour currency swings.

Reports from Germany mean Daimler would shape about 80,000 C-class cars annually in Alabama. Moving the C domain to Vance would instruct an additional investment to expatiate on the plant and in requital for new tooling, said a spokeswoman for the cast. The next-generation C birth is due is 2013. The Vance works builds the M-, GL- and R-class models. The gear has built 83,461 units to old hat modern in 2009. all of 2008, it built 152,500.