The chairman of Chinese carmaker Geely has built up an almost 10 percent stake in Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler , making a $9 billion (£6.4 billion) bet that he can push through an alliance to access the German company's technology.
Mercedes-Benz has issued a recall for 382 examples of the MY2015 V-Class and related Vito over concerns the driver’s airbag could deploy “without obvious cause”.