Mercedes-Benz to launch midsize pickup

March 27, 2015
Mercedes-Benz has announced that its Vans division will expand its lineup with a midsize pickup before the end of the decade.
The truck is at the embryonic stage of development so concrete details are vague at best. However, Mercedes promises that the yet-unnamed pickup will be able to haul about 2,200 pounds when properly configured and that it will offer all of the comfort and safety features that buyers expect to find in a vehicle with a three-pointed star emblem on the grille.

Mercedes’ truck will presumably be offered in several body styles including a single cab, a crew cab and a cab-chassis. Whether the truck is being developed in-house from the ground up or with input from another automaker is up the air. In recent years, Mercedes has collaborated with both Renault and Volkswagen on commercial vehicles.

The upcoming pickup truck will be sold in a number of global markets including Europe, Latin America, Australia and South Africa. However, at the time of writing Mercedes is not planning on offering the truck in the United States.

Déjà vu?
The yet-unnamed truck won’t be Mercedes’ first-ever pickup. The company’s Argentinian arm designed and built both two- and four-door pickup variants of the w114 (sold as a sedan in the United States) in the 1970s, and Mercedes built several car-based pickups in South Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in a bid to circumvent local tariffs that applied to commercial vehicles.

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