Mercedes-Benz Cars September Global Sales Fall 7% - Mercedes-Benz Brand Drops 5%

Stuttgart, October 07, 2009
In September, Mercedes-Benz Cars sold 114,300 (September 2008: 122,200) Mercedes-Benz, AMG, smart, and Maybach brand vehicles worldwide (minus seven percent). Mercedes-Benz delivered 104,900 (September 2008: 110,700) passenger vehicles to customers (minus five percent). The smart brand sold 9,400 (September 2008: 11,500) units (minus 18 percent). With these results in September, Mercedes-Benz Cars recorded the highest sales total in any month this year. Contributing to this development were the new E-Class and the new generation S-Class, but also strong growth rates in the Asia/Pacific region, particularly in China, and a stabilization of sales in Western Europe and the United States.
"We observed a positive sales trend in September. And here, the growth rate of the new E-Class played a particularly important role," says Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing Mercedes-Benz Cars. Deliveries of the sedan were up 64 percent worldwide, and increased in Western Europe by 95 percent compared to the result posted in September 2008. More than 70,000 units of the new E-Class have been delivered to customers since the market launch, and in September the sedan was once again the best-selling car in its class.

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Yonder7 - 10/7/2009 4:39:07 PM

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That's normal but here in US they did better than BMW....in fact did not see it comming...7, X6, and Gts series won't help...and Honestly I love German Brands. I hope BMW and MB have a backup plan...cause if they don't....the future is very dark for both companies, in fact darker than the Audi's future. They are spending to much in expensive cars that won't sell volume and that is rigth path to the death. As far as I can see, China is the market that could save their butts.

GermanNut - 10/7/2009 5:02:50 PM

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We all know who the market leader in China is....

I predict Audi's September global sales rise at least 2% given that the BMW brand managed to only see a 1.2% global sales decline and BMW has consistently seen far worse global monthly sales declines than Audi for every month of 2009.

GermanNut - 10/7/2009 5:13:48 PM

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By end of next year, Audi could very likely be the number two premium luxury manufacturer in the world, overthrowing Mercedes-Benz.

BMW's lead over third place Audi has been cut 68% in just the first 9 months of 2009.

Most importantly, Audi has been hoarding hundreds of million of dollars more in profit than BMW.