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Concetrating the commercial vehicle components business

12 January 2001
DaimlerChrysler announces its intention to concentrate all component activities in future in a new business unit, Daim...

Detroit platform for three world premieres

Detroit platform for three world premieres

13 - 21 January 2001
Mercedes-Benz uses the North American Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan/USA, as the platform for three world premieres. In...

Mercedes-Benz at the Geneva Motor Show

Mercedes-Benz at the Geneva Motor Show

1 - 11 March 2001
A refined version of the A-Class with improved equipment and more powerful diesel engines is presented at the Geneva Mo...

Setra S 417 HDH presented

Setra S 417 HDH presented

4 - 8 March 2001
EvoBus presents the Setra S 417 HDH, the first model of the new TopClass 400 luxury touring coach series, at the Donauh...

Gaggenau becomes center of competence for manual transmissions

Gaggenau becomes center of competence for manual transmissions

7 March 2001
DaimlerChrysler announces its decision to realign the Gaggenau plant and develop it into the Group's centre of competen...

Fuel cell buses: small series for Europe

Fuel cell buses: small series for Europe

20 March 2001
Representatives of the local public transport operations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Porto,...

Sprinter premiere in the USA

Sprinter premiere in the USA

22 - 24 March 2001
The Sprinter celebrates its US premiere at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky/USA. The successful Mer...

Anniversary: 10,000th E 55 AMG leaves factory

Anniversary: 10,000th E 55 AMG leaves factory

March 2001
The 10,000th Mercedes-Benz E 55 AMG is completed at Mercedes-AMG in Affalterbach. The E 55 AMG therefore becomes the mos...

European Commission approves Adtranz sale

3 April 2001
The European Commission approves the sale of DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems GmbH (Adtranz), Berlin, to Bombardier. The tr...

DaimlerChrysler sells TEMIC shares

9 April 2001
With effect from 1 April, Continenta AG, Hanover, acquires 60 % of the shares held by DaimlerChrysler in TEMIC Telefunke...

Volvo shares in Mitsubishi acquired

11 April 2001
DaimlerChrysler and Volvo agree on the takeover of a 3.3 % holding in Mitsubishi Motor Corporation previously owned by V...

Reorganization of finance and leasing business

1 May 2001
Mercedes-Benz Lease Finanz GmbH is renamed DaimlerChrysler Bank, and Mercedes-Benz Leasing GmbH is renamed DaimlerChrysl...

Cooperation with Hyundai in commercial vehicle engines

21 June 2001
DaimlerChrysler and Hyundai Motor Company (HMC) agree on the foundation of a joint-venture company for the production o...

DaimlerChrysler Bank comes to Stuttgart

29 June 2001
The ground-breaking ceremony for the new administrative building of the DaimlerChrysler Bank is held at Pragsattel in St...

Hermes Versand Service tests fuel cell powered Sprinter

Hermes Versand Service tests fuel cell powered Sprinter

26 July 2001
Together with Hermes Versand Service, a parcel delivery company, DaimlerChrysler launches a joint venture to test the M...

New Formula One Safety Car: SL 55 AMG

New Formula One Safety Car: SL 55 AMG

29 July 2001
The SL 55 AMG is unveiled at the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim as the new Formula One Safety Car two days before the...

World premiere for new SL generation in Hamburg

World premiere for new SL generation in Hamburg

31 July 2001
In the Deichtor Halls in Hamburg, the Mercedes-Benz SL 500 – the first model from the new R 230 roadster series – celeb...

75,000th Setra bus delivered

75,000th Setra bus delivered

28 August 2001
In the 50th year of the Setra brand's existence, the 75,000th Setra bus is delivered to a customer in Ulm. The landmark...

New Axor truck series presented in Stuttgart

New Axor truck series presented in Stuttgart

4 September 2001
At corporate headquarters in Stuttgart-Möhringen, DaimlerChrysler presents the Mercedes-Benz Axor, a new semitrailer tr...

Schneider captures DTM championship before end of season

Schneider captures DTM championship before end of season

9 September 2001
In the eighth DTM race on the A1 Ring in Spielberg, Austria, Bernd Schneider, driving a Mercedes-Benz CLK-DTM, takes hi...

Frankfurt: firework of innovations for brand anniversary

13 - 23 September 2001
At the Frankfurt International Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz presents the SL 55 AMG. This particularly sporty version of th...

Ten million axles from Kassel

17 September 2001
The Mercedes-Benz plant in Kassel produces the ten-millionth commercial vehicle axle since the former Hanomag-Henschel...

Corporate headquarters enables childcare

8 October 2001
The new "Sterntaler" day nursery in Stuttgart-Möhringen is officially inaugurated.

Coulthard in a McLaren-Mercedes runner-up in world championship

Coulthard in a McLaren-Mercedes runner-up in world championship

14 October 2001
David Coulthard in a McLaren-Mercedes MP4-16 takes third place in the season finale, the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka,...

Mettingen plant: ten million multi-link independent rear suspension units

17 October 2001
In the Mettingen sub-plant of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Untertürkheim, completion of the ten-millionth multi-link ind...

50,000 chassis for special bodies

19 October 2001
At an official ceremony held at the company Binz GmbH & Co. KG in Lorch, Württemberg, Mercedes-Benz and Binz celebrate p...

Setra TopClass 400: Coach of the Year 2002

Setra TopClass 400: Coach of the Year 2002

19 - 24 October 2001
The new Setra TopClass 400 touring coach series receives the award "Coach of the Year 2002" at the Busworld show in Kor...

Tokyo: with the F 400 to the future

Tokyo: with the F 400 to the future

27 October - 7 November 2001
At the Tokyo Motor, Show DaimlerChrysler presents the F 400 Carving, a research vehicle with pioneering steering and sus...

Working time: long-term accounts for the workforce

7 November 2001
Within the framework of a works agreement, the corporate management and Central Works Council of DaimlerChrysler AG deci...

Europe's great cities test fuel cell buses

23 November 2001
DaimlerChrysler AG and the major European cities Madrid, London, Porto, Luxembourg, Hamburg, Barcelona, Stuttgart, Stock...

Flexible working hours

10 December 2001
The corporate management and Central Works Council of DaimlerChrysler AG conclude two new works agreements on part-time...

Mitsubishi and smart: engines from Thuringia

20 December 2001
DaimlerChrysler AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announce their decision to build a joint engine plant in Kölleda i...

Twenty million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars since the end of the war

Twenty million Mercedes-Benz passenger cars since the end of the war

20 December 2001
Mercedes-Benz reaches a new production milestone: at the Sindelfingen plant, the 20-millionth Mercedes-Benz passenger c...

Mercedes-Benz Actros semitrailer tractors with Telligent stability control

Mercedes-Benz Actros semitrailer tractors with Telligent stability control

December 2001
The Mercedes-Benz Actros semitrailer tractors are the first production trucks worldwide that can be equipped as an opti...