{"id":11820,"date":"2026-07-18T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:21:12","slug":"mercedes-ceo-cars-are-e25-ready-india-among-top-5-maybach-markets-santosh-iyer-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11820","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes CEO: Cars Are E25 Ready, India Among Top 5 Maybach Markets | Santosh Iyer Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Mercedes-Benz India MD &amp; CEO Santosh Iyer speaks exclusively to Business Today on the future of India\u2019s luxury car market. He discusses why Mercedes is prioritising value over volume, reveals that the average selling price of a Mercedes in India is now above \u20b91 crore, and explains why India has emerged as one of the world\u2019s top five Maybach markets.<\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p>In this exclusive interview, Santosh Iyer also shares Mercedes\u2019 investment plans, upcoming EV launches, the importance of customer experience over pricing, the brand\u2019s focus on maintaining strong residual values, and why the company remains optimistic about demand momentum in the second half of the year.\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <p>Business Today, Drive Today, Mercedes-Benz India, Mercedes India Sales, Luxury Car Market #Mercedes #CEO #Cars #E25 #Ready #India #Among #Top #Maybach #Markets #Santosh #Iyer #Exclusive1784308872<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz India MD &amp; CEO Santosh Iyer speaks exclusively to Business Today on the future of India\u2019s luxury car market. He discusses why Mercedes is prioritising value over volume, reveals that the average selling price of a Mercedes in India is now above \u20b91 crore, and explains why India has emerged as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2868,109,5851,735,802,46865,4559,200,39013,46864,358,46866,45619,29786,46863,6295,46867,588],"class_list":["post-11820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-among","tag-business-today","tag-cars","tag-ceo","tag-drive-today","tag-e25","tag-exclusive","tag-india","tag-iyer","tag-luxury-car-market","tag-markets","tag-maybach","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-benz-india","tag-mercedes-india-sales","tag-ready","tag-santosh","tag-top"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}