Mercedes will exit the small commercial vehicle segment in Q2 2026 and thus the Mercedes T-Class and Citan will disappear without any successor.
Mercedes has informed its dealers in an internal communication that it will quit the small commercial vehicle segment, reports the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. Mercedes will discontinue both the more luxurious Mercedes T-Class and the Citan commercial versions of both the combustion-engined and electric versions, the EQT and E-Citan.
The Mercedes T-Class and Citan are similar models to the Renault Kangoo and Nissan Townstar and are produced at Renault’s Maubeuge plant in northern France. The small commercial vehicles are the fruits of the cooperation between Renault and Mercedes, which started in 2009 in several segments.
In the meantime, Mercedes has stopped cooperating with Renault, and the Citan/T-Class is the last jointly developed project. This cooperation will end in mid-2026.
By dropping the T-Class/Citan, Mercedes will only be present in the mid-size van and commercial vehicle segment with the Vito/V-Class and the large class with the Sprinter.
Mercedes is dropping the T-Class/Citan for several reasons
– Sales have not performed as expected by Mercedes due to high prices and last year they collapsed, especially in China and North America but also in Europe were not satisfactory. In the first quarter of 2025, only just over 7,000 units were sold.
– These models were not profitable enough for Mercedes. Therefore, this decision was to be expected as Mercedes had announced as early as May 2023 when it presented its “Growth in Profitable Segments” strategy that it would focus its investments in profitable segments and optimize its product portfolio. Thus, it announced that in the commercial vehicle and van segment it would focus on the mid-size and large class.
– Mercedes no longer wanted to continue its cooperation with Renault
– Mercedes is already developing its own platform for electric commercial vehicles, the VAN.EA, with the first model on this new architecture due to debut in 2026. In addition, there will also be a derivative version of this platform for combustion engines, VAN.CA. These two platforms will underpin all future Mercedes vans and commercial vehicles.
Thus, production of the Mercedes T-Class, Citan, EQT, and eCitan will cease in the second quarter of 2026 and there will be no successor. Under international rules, Mercedes will still offer 10 years of spare parts and 15 years of consumables for these models.