Mercedes CLA starts to roll off production line in Hungary

The Mercedes CLA – the baby Mercedes CLS based on the new A Class – has started to roll off the production line at Kecskemét in Hungary.

But that’s probably unfair; based as it is on the new A-Class, the CLA is a very good car under the skin, even if its big USP is the dramatic styling.

Now, just over a week after the CLA got its first public reveal (if you don’t count the Mercedes Concept Style Coupe on which its based), the first production car has rolled off the line at the Mercedes plant in Kecskemét, Hungary.

The new Mercedes plant in Kecskemét was opened in 2012 and has already produced 40,000 B Class Mercedes, and its 3000 staff are now working on a second production line churning out the new CLA.

The launch of the CLA production line saw the big-wigs turning out to mark the occassion, including Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán and Mercedes’ Dieter Zetsche. Plant manager, Frank Klein, said:

The plant’s entire team can’t wait to get the CLA to our customers as perfectly as the B-Class cars we build in Kecskemét. We aim to follow up seamlessly on what we achieved in our first, very successful production year of 2012.

And with Mercedes cars once again being bolted together properly, customers for the new CLA can now look forward to their new car turning up sometime soon – and fault free.

By Cars UK