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IT’S A WET, windy, overcast and thoroughly miserable day in south-west Germany, down in the corner where it borders Switzerland and France.

Mercedes-Benz has built the launch program for the new S-Class around its new proving ground here. For almost 60 years Immendingen was used by the German military for testing

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