1962

The length of the working week is cut to 42.5 hours.

The 300 SE Coupé and Convertible (W 112) models are presented at the Geneva Motor Show. As with the 300 SE Saloon on which they are based, both are fitted with air suspension, automatic transmission and four disc brakes as standard.

The Unimog U 65 (406 series) is presented at the DLG exhibition in Munich. The new model is equipped with a 65 hp / 48 kW six-cylinder diesel engine and extends the Unimog model range in the tractor segment by a second, separate model series. Series production begins in April 1963.

The Untertürkheim plant begins relocation of passenger-car component remanufacturing to a plant site at Brühl near Esslingen, leased from Württembergische Baumwollspinnerei und -Weberei. The move is completed in March 1963 and the Brühl facility becomes an autonomous branch of the Untertürkheim plant on 1 April.

The new Daimler-Benz training centre is opened at the Lämmerbuckel site near Wiesensteig in the Swabian Jura.

The ladies’ team of Ewy Rosqvist and Ursula Wirth win the "Coupe des Dames" in a Mercedes-Benz 220 SE at the Thousand Lakes Rally, which takes them 2,000 km across Finland.

The one-millionth post-war Mercedes-Benz passenger car, a 220 SE (W 111) model, rolls off the Sindelfingen assembly line.