Beijing Benz
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| Private joint venture | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
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China |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Owner |
Beijing Automotive Group (50%) Daimler AG (50%) |
| Website | www.bbac.com.cn/ |
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| Simplified Chinese | 北京奔驰 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 北京奔馳 | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Beijing Benz | ||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Běijīng Bēnchí |
| Wade–Giles | Pei3-ching1 Pen1-ch'ih2 |
| IPA | [pèɪ̯tɕíŋ pəntʂʰɨ] |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Bākgīng Bānchìh |
| Jyutping | Bak1 ging1 ban1 ci4 |
Beijing Benz (officially Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd) is an automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Beijing, China, and a joint venture between Beijing Automotive Group and Daimler AG. Since its founding in 1984, the company has kept the same Chinese co-owner but has had several foreign co-owners.
As of 2016, Beijing Benz assembles and manufactures the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (long wheelbase), and C-Class in China.
While Beijing Benz does not produce all the Mercedes-branded autos sold on the Chinese market, such cars currently enjoy a reputation for high quality and popularity. Some Mercedes offerings, the S-Class for example, are imported by Mercedes-Benz (China) Ltd.
Sales in 2010 were expected to reach 50,000 cars, but total Mercedes-Benz sales in China including imports were near 150,000. In 2008, Beijing Benz's production capacity was estimated at 100,000 units/year although that figure may consider engines and vehicles as discrete, and the company was likely able to produce only half that number of whole vehicles.
While its history can be traced back to the oldest of the Chinese auto-making joint ventures with a Western partner, Beijing Benz was established in 2005 and is currently owned by Beiqi and Daimler AG.
Beijing Benz grew out of what was originally the Beijing Jeep Corporation (Chinese: 北京吉普汽车有限公司), China's first Sino-western automotive joint venture having been established in 1984 with American Motors Corporation.
American Motors began negotiations in 1979 to sell its vehicles in China and to gain access to then low-cost Chinese labor. The Chinese wanted more-modern automotive technology; Beijing Jeep suited the needs of both parties and produced the American Motors Jeep Cherokee (XJ) in Beijing. While talks began in the late 1970s, operation started in 1985. Assembly of the Cherokee continued after Chrysler purchased American Motors as did production of the classic Beijing BJ212-based SUVs.
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