{"id":5296,"date":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:55","slug":"mercedes-benz-might-dump-its-transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz might dump its transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many carmakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mercedes_benz\/\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> has traditionally built its own transmissions . It has even supplied them to others, such the slushbox that they sold to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/porsche\/\">Porsche<\/a> for the 928. Economic realities could soon cause that to change, as the team from soon-to-be <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/DAI.DE\">Daimler AG<\/a> investigates outsourcing transmission production to other companies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mercedes_benz\/\">Mercedes<\/a> wants transmissions that will help the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/fuel+efficiency\/\">fuel efficiency<\/a> of their next generation A, B, and C-Classes, such as eight-speed dual clutch units. Rather than spend the resources developing its own. it might just purchase such a unit from a company like Getrag or ZF, according to a report in <em>Auto Motor und Sport.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Source: Automotive News &#8211; Sub. req&#x27;d]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/08\/30\/mercedes-benz-might-dump-its-transmissions\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-08-30T19:33:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many carmakers, Mercedes-Benz has traditionally built its own transmissions . It has even supplied them to others, such the slushbox that they sold to Porsche for the 928. Economic realities could soon cause that to change, as the team from\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}