Mercedes-Benz 12 New Or Facelifted Models By 2027

On Capital Markets Day 2025 dedicated to the 2024 financial results, Mercedes unveiled its range renewal plan that includes 12 new or facelifted models by 2027.
 

Mercedes promises its biggest-ever all-new model campaign. It will debut in spring 2025 with the new Mercedes CLA, available first in an electric version and from 2026 in a 48V mild hybrid version. The new electric Mercedes CLA will set new standards in terms of range, energy consumption, and charging speed thanks to know-how transferred from the Vision EQXX concept.
 
The CLA will be followed by three other compact models: the CLA Shooting Brake, GLA, and GLB, which will also be available in electric and 48V mild hybrid versions. At the unveiling of the new model plan, Mercedes reconfirmed that the compact line-up will have just the four aforementioned models compared to the seven before. Thus, the A-Class hatch and sedan and the B-Class will have no successors.
 
Two other new additions will be the electric Mercedes GLC and C-Class which will complete the electric model range in one of the most important electric car segments on the market where the Tesla Model Y and Model 3 are the best-selling electric models in the world.
 
The Mercedes C-Class will also undergo a facelift this year four years after its launch. Mercedes says the news program also includes a major upgrade for the S-Class luxury limousine in 2026.
 
Another important electric model by 2027 is the electric E-Class. Mercedes isn’t saying if the electric E-Class will replace the EQE, but rumors have surfaced that the EQE won’t have a successor. By confirming the launch of the new Mercedes E-Class electric, Mercedes is only confirming the demise of the EQE because it doesn’t make sense to have two electric models in the same segment.
 
If we consider the four compact models, the electric E-Class, C-Class, and GLC, the facelifts of the C-Class and S-Class, that makes a total of nine models.
 
Mercedes is not revealing more information about the other three models but one of them could be the GLC facelift. Launched in June 2022, the second-generation GLC will reach the mid-life of its lifecycle next year. The last two models will be from the AMG division, as Mercedes announced in the Capital Markets Day release that a number of AMG new models will follow without giving more details.
 
Production plans
Mercedes has revised its production plans and firmly announced that no plants in Germany will be closed. Production at German plants will be balanced and optimized at an average of 300,000 units per plant.
 
Mercedes has also decided to assemble a Core model at the plant in Kecsemet, Hungary. Initially, the Kecsemet plant was intended only for compact models, but Mercedes made the decision because production costs in Hungary are 70% lower than in Germany. Mercedes hasn’t given details of which model it might be but it’s likely to be the C-Class facelift.
 
The Tuscaloosa plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, will also produce a Core segment model but Mercedes didn’t specify which model it is.
 
By mid-2026, Mercedes will launch a long-wheelbase version of the Mercedes GLE in China.
 
Due to the uncertain situation in China, increased chinese competition and the turmoil in the market created by the US tariffs, Mercedes will reduce its production capacity from 2.5 million units in 2024 to 2-2.2 million units by 2027. Mercedes also plans to cut production costs by 10% and to this end has divested plants in Hambach, France (sold to Ineos), Iracemapolis, Brazil, and CKD assembly plants in Russia and Indonesia. The engine plant in Poland will become a van production plant as the van plant in Argentina will close.