What EU Recession? Mercedes-Benz Says It Can't Keep Up With Global Demand

Daimler AG, the world’s third-largest maker of luxury vehicles, said it’s having trouble filling orders as all-time-high August sales put premium-car manufacturers on course for record full-year deliveries.

“We have a luxury problem,” Chief Executive Officer Dieter Zetsche said Tuesday at an International Motor Show press briefing in Frankfurt. “We have a shortage of capacity and cannot fully satisfy global demand.”

New models at Daimler’s main Mercedes-Benz brand and larger competitors Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Audi AG are propelling delivery gains at the German luxury-vehicle producers, in contrast to declines at European mass-market carmakers amid a recession. Industry sales in the region, which are at a two-decade low, have “bottomed out, and there can be some improvement for the rest of the year,” Zetsche said.

ParadoX - 9/10/2013 1:53:01 PM

+1 Boost

Their lucky that other markets are showing strong sales figures.

Car4Life - 9/10/2013 2:52:43 PM

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The new A, CLA, and GLA is going to put Benz in overdrive, factory workers will be happy with the additional hours though