{"id":365,"date":"2008-04-07T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/07\/mercedes-benz-t\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:37:35","slug":"mercedes-benz-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/07\/mercedes-benz-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz to buy Aston Martin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/vantage_mb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/vantage_mb.jpg\" alt=\"Vantage_mb\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: left\" \/><\/a> According to company sources, Mercedes is interested in buying a stake in the British carmaker Aston Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Mercedes nor Aston Martin have confirmed the rumour but the news comes after Aston Martin has been reported to be interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrol-head.com\/2008\/02\/aston-martin-to.html\">German carmaker&#8217;s hybrid technologies<\/a>. Mercedes will certainly get attention from the Kuwait-based Investment Dar which bought a stake in Aston Martin last year. As soon as the deal was signed the investment firm had said it wanted to sell its stake.<\/p>\n<p>Buying a stake in Aston Martin would enable Mercedes to buy a place in the luxury segment at a time when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrol-head.com\/2008\/03\/daimler-conside.html\">Maybach\u2019s future is shadowed<\/a>. After the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrol-head.com\/2008\/04\/mercedes-slr-pr.html\">SLR production ends<\/a> at the end of the year, Mercedes will separate from McLaren. For Aston Martin, the situation has been less than easy since its split with Ford. if the British marque wants to survive, it will likely need the support of a bigger manufacture to share at least the cost of compliance with the stricter emission regulation which appear in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em>Autocar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to company sources, Mercedes is interested in buying a stake in the British carmaker Aston Martin. Neither Mercedes nor Aston Martin have confirmed the rumour but the news comes after Aston Martin has been reported to be interested in the German carmaker&#8217;s hybrid technologies. Mercedes will certainly get attention from the Kuwait-based Investment Dar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":6558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aston-martin","category-mercedes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mercedes-Benz to buy Aston Martin? - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2008\/04\/07\/mercedes-benz-t\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mercedes-Benz to buy Aston Martin? - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"According to company sources, Mercedes is interested in buying a stake in the British carmaker Aston Martin. 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