Mercedes to add GLC SUV production at Alabama plant

Kalea Hall

Mon, May 12, 2025, 1:52 PM 1 min read

By Kalea Hall

DETROIT (Reuters) -Mercedes executives connected Monday said the institution volition adhd accumulation of its GLC SUV for North America astatine its works successful Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Earlier this month, the German automaker said it would bring a caller conveyance to the Alabama works successful 2027 that would "deepen our committedness to the U.S."

Foreign-made autos person been a main absorption of President Donald Trump's planetary commercialized war. In aboriginal April, the Trump medication implemented 25% tariffs connected conveyance imports.

Mercedes' GLC is built astatine the Bremen, Germany, plant, which has 10 full models.

A Mercedes spokesperson said Monday that "no important changes to the mean full accumulation figures successful Bremen are expected successful the mean term. Bremen volition inactive nutrient the GLC for the remainder of the world," and the Alabama works "will localize GLC accumulation for request successful North America."

The determination volition grow accumulation astatine the Alabama plant, the automaker's hub for its SUVs, including the GLE, GLS, GLE Coupe, and Maybach GLS.

Mercedes executives connected a Monday telephone with media did not accidental however overmuch the automaker volition put to physique the GLC astatine the confederate works since it is inactive successful readying phases.

(Reporting by Kalea Hall; Editing by Chris Reese and David Gregorio)