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- Jul 14, 196595% CONFIDENCEfrom daimlertruck.com
Mercedes-Benz Rolls Out Its First Complete Truck From the Wörth Plant
- In July 1965 (14 July per Mercedes-Benz Trucks) the Wörth plant assembled its first complete truck, a green Mercedes-Benz LP 608[2][3]
- Production began in October 1963 with about 100 employees, initially building cabs for Gaggenau and Mannheim; the site was originally planned as an aggregates plant before Daimler-Benz realigned its commercial vehicle strategy[3]
- From 1965 Wörth became the focus of commercial vehicle production and the large-scale plant for all truck classes[3]
- The LP 608 had a 6.5 tonne gross weight, could be driven on a car licence, and was the first Mercedes-Benz truck with a four-cylinder direct-injection engine (OM 314, 80 hp); over 10,000 were built in two years with 45% market share[2]
- Over 4.4 million trucks have been built in 60+ years, 800,000+ as CKD kits; Wörth now builds the Actros, Arocs, Atego, Econic, Unimog and Zetros, with eActros series production from 2021[3]
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=-gicsjpzeigyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jul 14, 1965· 45% of score
Daimler Truck's[3] own 60th-anniversary press release, "Historic milestone at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth: First truck produced 60 years ago," names 14 July 1965 and the LP 608 model.
- [2]85%Mercedes-Benz LP 608mercedes-benz-trucks.com· Added Sep 19, 2026· 46% of score
States an LP 608 rolled off the Wörth line on 14 July 1965 as the very first truck.[1]
- [3]95%Historic milestone at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth: First truck produced 60 years agodaimlertruck.com· Published Jul 14, 2025· Starts Jul 14, 1965 ✓· 9% of score
Daimler Truck's own anniversary press release states the first complete truck, a green LP 608, rolled off the Wörth line on 14 July 1965.
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