• 8 March 1966
  • Daimler-Benz takes a 26.7 % holding in United Car and Diesel Distributors (Pty.) Ltd. (UCCD) in Pretoria, South Africa....
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  • March 1966
  • Production begins at the Sindelfingen plant of the 300 SEL (W 109) passenger car, which differs from the 300 SE (W 108)...
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  • March 1966
  • The Düsseldorf plant produces its 100,000th power steering unit.
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  • 8 - 15 May 1966
  • At the DLG exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, Daimler-Benz presents an enlarged Unimog model range to which a segment mid...
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  • May 1966
  • The 100,000th automatic transmission for passenger cars is completed at the Hedelfingen sub-plant of the Untertürkheim p...
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  • 25 June 1966
  • Daimler-Benz AG and Volkswagenwerk AG set up Deutsche Automobilgesellschaft in Hanover as a jointly run research and dev...
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  • August 1966
  • The estates built in Belgium at I.M.A., S.A., on the basis of the 200 D, 200, 230 and 230 S models now also are offered...
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  • 28 October 1966
  • Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH and Mercedes-Benz Motorenbau GmbH merge, creating Maybach Mercedes-Benz Motorenbau GmbH based i...
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  • 3 December 1966
  • Daimler-Benz AG takes a 36 % stake in the newly-founded Otobüs ve Motorlu Araclar Sanayi A.S. (OTOMARSAN), based in Ist...
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  • 30 December 1966
  • Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kraftfahrzeug- und Industriemotoren-Bau GmbH, Daimler-Benz acquires a majority hold...
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