Automatic transmissions increasingly popular

  • Date
    May 1966
  • Description

    The 100,000th automatic transmission for passenger cars is completed at the Hedelfingen sub-plant of the Untertürkheim plant. In 1966, 23 % of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars are fitted with automatic transmission.

Mercedes-Benz advertising poster. Automatic transmission, "Simply select, forget about having to shift gear".
1995M200
Automatic transmission
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