Mercedes-Benz Argentina

Mercedes-Benz Argentina S.A.U. is the Argentine subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz Group, which produces and markets Mercedes-Benz utility vehicles in Argentina and imports luxury cars, sport utility vehicles and AMG performance models. It is headquartered in Munro, in Buenos Aires Province, was founded on 6 September 1951 and was the first Mercedes-Benz subsidiary outside Germany. Its assembly plant at Virrey del Pino in La Matanza Partido builds trucks and buses, and the plant was renamed the Juan Manuel Fangio Industrial Center in 1996, the year the Sprinter was launched there. Fangio, the five-time Formula One champion, became president of its board in 1974. The company merged with Chrysler Argentina as DaimlerChrysler Argentina in 2000 and took back its own name in 2007, and in 2026 it opened a new factory in Zárate.