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Originally Posted by BMW_Dude  Not all were, my parents friends got one of the first W203s to come off the production line, and said the car was made in Germany, before they moved manufacturing to SA! They love MBs, have had many over the years, and I was surprised to find they had no faults with their W203, and it was as good as new. Maybe the ones made in Germany were much better quality than ones made in SA!  |
South African-made C-Classes seemed to fair pretty well overall. I think MB got the quality control setup right down there (and now in the US). I suppose the early variants of the W203 C-Class for RHD markets were made in Germany, and later in South Africa. Probably going to be the same with the W204 C-Class. Perhaps they're checking out better production techniques at Sindelfingen and once they've perfected them they will move production to South Africa.