MAGNA STEYR presents the third concept vehicle in the MILA innovation family at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. The MILA Alpin is a compact off-roader with a body specially designed for integrating various different types of alternative drives.
Magna-Steyr has an off-road test site outside Graz, atop a mountain with panoramic views looking toward Slovakia.
Made in Steyr Austria (import to Australia), body/chassis tuning by Porsche, Auto by Mercedes, and a torquey V8 from Chrysler. With a few mods, you have a really quick car that will 4wd with the best.
The Magna-Steyr plant at Graz only makes the very different Countryman at the moment - due to lack of extra capacity at Oxford - with derivatives to follow. (The build quality at Graz is at least as high.)
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He was born in Weyer, a little village in Upper Austria near Steyr. From 1926 to 1929 he worked as a car-body designer in the Steyrer factories. There he met Ferdinand Porsche in 1929 when Porsche joined as technical director of the Steyrer factory.
1998-present 4Matic: Graz, Austria (by Magna Steyr)
2006-present: Beijing, China (by Beijing-Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive for the Chinese market) ...
This system is compact and clever and was developed by Austrian four-wheel-drive specialists Steyr-Daimler-Puch. The system combines proven engineering in innovative ways.
BMW has designed and then commissioned Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria, to build this smaller SAV in order to capture an even bigger slice of the growing SAV market.
I first encountered the diesel engine a few years ago when BMW launched the Steyr-derived unit on a completely unsuspecting motoring press in Germany.
The Chrysler 300C SRT8 Touring will be built for European and other international markets at the Magna Steyr Manufacturing Facility in Graz, Austria, and will be available in the second half of 2006.
Curiously, the Rapide will be the first car in the history of the firm to be built outside of Britain. Final production will be done by Magna Steyr at their plant in Graz, Austria.
Source: CarScoop ...
Grand Cherokee is produced at DaimlerChrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant in Detroit (Mich.). For international markets, left- and right-hand drive four-wheel drive versions are produced at the Steyr-Daimler-Puch Fahrzeugtechnik AG assembly ...
by one William Towns, a connection that leads conveniently (via the even more fabulous Aston Martin Lagonda that Towns also penned) to the subject of this article and the newest four-door production car to leave the Aston Mart... er, the Magna-Steyr ...
Due to the special nature of the vehicle, it will be built by Magna Steyr in Austria in a production centre that specialises in exclusive vehicles built in small volumes.
 See also: BMW, Seat, Mercedes, Rover, Daimler
  
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