Experts Foresee Audi Overtaking Mercedes-Benz Next Year In Global Sales

If the experts at the University of Duisburg's Center of Automotive Research (CAR) are right, the German luxury car market will see a considerable shake-up next year, with Audi selling more cars worldwide than Mercedes for the first time ever.

In a study published on Monday, the center's director, Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, predicted that Munich-based BMW will continue to lead the pack in 2010, with VW-subsidiary Audi in second place, and Stuttgart-based Mercedes-Benz in third.

Back in 2002 Mercedes' global sales were more than 30 percent higher than Audi's. This year the gap appears to have been whittled down to just 3 percent: Mercedes is expected to sell 965,000 cars in 2009 compared to Audi's 935,000.


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kpaxx - 10/21/2009 3:52:32 PM

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Of course they will Audi has a more diverse product range!

IamEvilHomer - 10/28/2009 11:25:16 AM

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Are you serious? MB has 4 times the models then Audi.

B7FAN - 10/21/2009 3:52:47 PM

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Only time will tell...as for now this is an assumption

inspirion7 - 10/21/2009 4:40:56 PM

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so was Toyota taking over GM. Now its history.

Yonder7 - 10/21/2009 4:19:22 PM

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I am willing to belive it, but MB is a low volume company, if you see the numbers they sale in Millions the same or more than BMW but with less cars, sadly MB cars most of the time are too expensive. I Audi is able to sale more cars....that won't hurt MB, but companies with same price range will be affected...

1dott8 - 10/21/2009 4:19:29 PM

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this means nothing to me, my favorite brand right now but i have no stock in audi so i don't care.

ctsang - 10/21/2009 4:27:24 PM

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Audi outsells Rolls Royce, so what?

IamEvilHomer - 10/28/2009 11:26:38 AM

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so you are saying Audi is a RR competitor?