Daimler wants its Mercedes-Benz brand to boost production by 13 percent next year to more than 1.4 million passenger vehicles, according to internal documents obtained by Automotive News Europe. Mercedes plans to produce 1,417,400 passenger cars (excluding commercial vehicles, Smart and Maybach) globally in 2012. The company sees total passenger car output (including Smart and soon-to-be-phased-out Maybach) rising to about 1.52 million next year and about 1.67 million in 2013.
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