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Friend Car on Google Maps
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Mercedes logs record 2013 sales during new model offensive
In the race for the world leadership in the premium car segment, German Mercedes cars made strong progress in 2013, boosting sales to a new company record, the carmaker's parent company Daimler announced Friday.
Mercedes sold 1.46 million cars worldwide last year, posting an increase of 10.7 percent compared with 2012. In addition, about 100,000 units of its Smart city car were shipped to customers, Daimler said.
The result meant that Daimler was able to close the gap to the world's second largest luxury carmaker, Germany's Audi, which narrowly beat Mercedes with sales of 1.58 million cars in 2013.
Mercedes' growth strategy was bearing first fruit, Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said in a statement, noting that especially its new version of the E-class and S-class sedans were selling well.
In the United States, which remained Mercedes\' largest single market in 2013, sales grew 14 percent to 312,000 cars. At home in Germany, the top-of-the-range brand sold 2.2 percent fewer vehicles than in the previous year.
But in China, which has become the world's largest car market, Mercedes made the biggest strides in its effort to catch up with global luxury car leaders Audi and BMW. Chinese sales jumped 11 percent year-on-year to 218,000 vehicles. Read More ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Chinese car market expands, pleasing German auto makers
The car market in the world's second largest economy grew by 13.9 percent to almost 22 million units, the CAAM industry association reported in Beijing on Thursday.
In December 2013 alone, car sales in China rose by 21.5 percent compared to the same month a year earlier, after already surging by 16 percent in November.
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The full-year pick-up came as an ongoing territorial dispute with Japan over a group of islands in the South Sea lost much of its initial impact, with demand for Japanese cars going up markedly again.
Full steam ahead for BMW
German carmakers also logged vastly improved numbers in China's resurgent vehicle market. Sales of BMW cars for instance were up 17.9 percent in the Asian nation, with 362,500 units sold compared to the 303,000 BMW cars leaving Chinese showrooms in the previous years.
'Our growth turned out distinctly higher than expected,' BMW China chief Karsten Engel told reporters, adding that the annual increase alone exceeded total sales in France for the same period.
The German luxury carmaker said it expected 10-percent growth for unit sales in China throughout the current year, with the Asian country to remain the company's most important market.
hg/msh (dpa, Reuters)
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