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kIMLER-BENZ is building a w proving ground at Boxberg, out 120km (75 miles) from Atgart. The new test facility expected to be complete by
t end of this year when all DB hide track testing, car and mmercial, will be moved ed present Daimler-Benz cars out its testing at Stuttgart. e track there, which was built me 25 years ago, is part of the tnufacturer's giant head office mplex and has the advanje of built-in good security, )king it difficult for prying eyes cameras to light on delopment vehicles.
3ut the Stuttgart track is now small for the company which 5 steadily grown to be the gest manufacturer in the ,rld of commercial vehicles 3r 6 tonnes gvw (153,000 were )duced in 1981) and currently ims around 25 per cent of that :tor of the West European irket.
Daimler-Benz reckons to md about DM1.4bn (£385m) -sually, between four and five cent of its turnover, on retrch and development and ting.