New Mercedes Models with New technology' to Be Built Soon in Hungary at mega car plant
- 4 Aug 2025 9:38 AM
Mercedes is building what will be Hungary's biggest car plant, Peter Szijjarto, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said before the 40th F1 Hungarian Grand Prix at Mogyorod.
After talks with representatives of the German car giant, Szijjarto said the investment in Kecskemet, in central Hungary, was progressing well and "brand-new Mercedes models with a brand-new technology" would roll off the line in the first quarter of next year.
The plant's capacity to turn out 300,000 vehicles a year will raise the total capacity of car plants in Hungary to 1 million, Szijjarto said.
Additionally, the Kecskemet plant will be the only Mercedes plant in Europe to have a plant supplying it in the immediate vicinity, he said. "We have a very special status for Mercedes, and Mercedes has a very special status in Hungary."
Szijjarto said the plant's decade-long cooperation with Hungary was "especially important now, with a less-than-stellar world economy."
"We are cooperating with Mercedes in ensuring that Hungary turns these global difficulties to its advantage. The German manufacturer is our strategic partner ... and we are working together to turn the situation caused by the incompetence of the European Commission and [EC President] Ursula von der Leyen to our advantage so that Hungary can emerge strengthened from it, as it did from earlier crises," Szijjarto said.
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