On Monday, Mercedes-Benz said it has retained its title as the world’s most successful premium brand carmaker. Its booming business in China is an essential part of securing that status. The company sold 2,289,344 cars across the 12 months, representing a 9.9% growth over 2016 that was spurred on by strong demand from its key markets, China, Germany and North America.
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BMW has yet to provide full-year sales figures for last year. But according to statistics released towards the end of 2017, the Munich-based company trailed Mercedes by some 200,000 units at the end of November, a gap thought to be impossible to plug within just one month.
Mercedes’ home market accounted for more than 300,000 of its 955,301 European sales; the region’s demand was up by 6.4% on 2016.
Mercedes also took the premium lead in Britain to rank ahead of Audi and BMW, beating those brands with a 6.4% sales boost to give it a 7.04% market share, compared with 6.88% and 6.77% respectively.
Of course Mercedes Benz! The design, the elegance, the drive and it’s performance works! It just works! No wonder they retain the crown from it’s competitors. They deserve this! <3
They retain the crown going down market with fwd. compacts, hatchbacks & a rebadged Nissan pick-up.
whatever mercedes did. it worked. they can make any models with minivans, trucks or pickup trucks and it’ll still sell like crazy.
And since neither BMW or Lexus sell in ANY of those segments Mercedes should be selling more volume. Like BMW sell more motorcycles. So what?
oh well.
Mercedes AMG has sold 130.000 units last year. Respect!
Big respect! Hopefully the M division can sell as much as the AMG in couple more years or perhaps not cause the electric vehicles are taking over the globe.
Not too much of a concern since the issues lies only in Z4 and i8, the Z4 is end of life, people are waiting for 3rd gen rollout in 2018. The i8 will need some updates, it’s one of the most innovative hybrids but the constraints lies with the extreme end of propulsion which were the dinky battery plus dinky ICE. If they increase battery punch, weight may become the problem, and if they up displacement on ICE , they may have to up the fuel tank. The way I see the i8, will likely reverse the arrangement of having a higher density battery placing at the rear and move the ICE up front because The 1.5 is already pretty maxed out, they will have to up the electric without altering its size and weight.
Guys, get the Logos of MB and Audi right….