6 September 2002: Mercedes-Benz has created a new production record with the building of the 100,000th Series W 211 Mercedes-Benz E-Class vehicle just six months after rolling out job Number One.

The milestone car is a Brilliant Silver E 320. "Thanks to the steepest ramp-up we’ve ever achieved for a Mercedes-Benz production series, we are today able to hand over the 100,000th E-Class vehicle to its new owner," said Plant Director Hans-Heinrich Weingarten during the presentation of the automobile.

It took the company only three-and-a-half months to ramp-up production at the beginning of the year to the maximum capacity of around 1,000 vehicles a day.