Nearly every Mercedes Benz car sold in India comes with an engine produced by Force Motors at its Chakan factory near Pune.
Force Motors just handed over the 200,000th engine to Mercedes Benz. It was a M256 straight six turbo petrol engine that's used in cars like the Mercedes Benz S-Class. The 200,000th motor went to a GLS 450.
Force Motors also produces engines for BMW at a different factory in Chennai. Force has built over 1 lakh engines for BMW, too. It even makes large, 10 cylinder and 12 cylinder industrial engines for Rolls Royce.
Did you know that the OM616 diesel engine that the Tempo (Force) Traveller used is a Mercedes Benz engine?
Force Motors later came up with re-engineered versions of this engine for the Gurkha, Travellers and Traxes, called FM2.6 and OM611.
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