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In 1996, Volkswagen Trucks and Buses opened their new Resende plant in Brazil, with the new Modular Consortium system, MWM took charge of the Powertrain line with Resende. When Volkswagen Trucks and Buses took over Chrysler's Brazilian truck plant in 1980, Volkswagen Group kept the original MWM engines for their new truck ranges. Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus have a long relationship with MWM Motores Diesel Ltda. The MWM Sprint has 3 versions: 2.8L and 3.0L 4-cylinders, and a 6-cylinder 4.2L, all of them high speed engines.

The first engine is a MWM project with 3 valves per cylinder and overhead camshaft and the second is an evolution of the Land Rover 2.5L diesel, built under licence by Ioschpe-Maxion (then, International Engines, who merged with MWM). There is common confusion between 2.8L MWM Sprint and the 2.8L Powerstroke. MWM diesels were also used to power the locally developed Puma trucks. MWM engines power the local versions of the Chevrolet Grand Blazer, Nissan Xterra and Ford F250, among others. MWM is said to have a 36% market share for diesel engines, by number of engines produced. de Motores da America do Sul Ltda.", has three manufacturing plants: one in Santo Amaro in São Paulo (headquarters), Canoas in Rio Grande do Sul, and Cordoba in Argentina. In 1985 parent company MWM was bought by Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD) and in March 2005 the subsidiary was sold to Navistar International.

2005 - MWM (Brazil) was bought by Navistar International in March 2005.MWM was founded as Motoren Werke Mannheim AG in Germany in 1922 and established its subsidiary in Brazil in 1953 to circumvent harsh import restrictions and high import tax rates.

2005 - Conformation of MWM INTERNATIONAL Motores as a result of the merger of MWM Motores Diesel and International Engines South America.

2005 - Production of the 3.0 litre 4.08 TCE Sprint engine.

2005 - Launching of the NGD 3.0E electronic engine.

2004 - Launching of the 4.12 TCE and 6.12 TCE Acteon electronic engine family.

2001 - Launching of the 2.8 litre Sprint Electronic 4.07 TCE engine family.

1995 - Inauguration of Canoas (Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil) industrial plant.

1995 - Inauguration of Jesus Maria (Córdoba - Argentina) industrial plant.

1953 - Start-up of operations in Brazil.

In the first semester of 2006, vehicles in this project - a VW 17.210 OD bus equipped with an Acteon electronic engine and two trucks, the VW 8.120 and VW 8.140, exceeded 100,000 kilometers testing. Another of the company's projects, tests the natural gas + diesel in Acteon 6.12 TCE engine adapted to Otto cycle, and which already presents positive results such as fuel economy and emissions reduction. The bi-fuel is only one of the alternative fuel projects involving MWM International.