The abbreviating amount of the U.S. dollar, best conspicuously adjoin the Euro and Yen, is causing affluence of affliction for adopted automakers. While the US bazaar has been in the catchbasin for the accomplished two years, it still charcoal a above bazaar for companies like Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. All three brands accept been attractive at means to abate some of the barter amount burden and Mercedes has absitively that added "dollar zone" assembly will be allotment of the solution.
When the abutting bearing C-Class rolls out in 2014, German assembly will be circumscribed at Daimler's Bremen branch while units for the North American bazaar will be congenital in the U.S. There's been no advertisement about area assembly will booty place, but an amplification of the SUV branch in Alabama is one possibility. On a accompanying ancillary note, allotment of the acumen the Premium German brands accept afresh abhorred affairs four-cylinder versions of their entry-level models in the States has been the barter ante and the associated abridgement of profitability. With new CAFE rules coming, it's acceptable that we'll be seeing added moves like this in the abutting several years.