- Mercedes-Benz with eight percent increase to 151,500 passenger vehicles in
the first two months 2007
- Even before the official market launch, new C-Class and new smart fortwo
post impressive numbers for incoming orders
- With more than one million deliveries, E-Class sedan celebrates new sales
milestone
Stuttgart - The Mercedes Car Group sold 82,000 Mercedes-Benz, Maybach
and smart brand passenger vehicles worldwide in February 2007. For the first two
months of the year, sales amounted to 159,700 vehicles (156,500 units).
Mercedes-Benz sold 78,000 passenger vehicles in February worldwide, posting an
increase of three percent compared to the same month last year (76,100 units).
The number of vehicles delivered to customers in the first two months of 2007
rose by eight percent to the total of 151,500 units (same period last year:
140,600 units).
The new C-Class sedan is registering an extremely positive reception in the
market only a few weeks after its sales start. Even before its official market
launch on March 31, 2007, already around 55.000 orders have been placed for the
new model in Western Europe. Sales of the current C-Class sports coupe were
particularly strong in February (1,900 units), a 26-percent increase from the
result posted in the same month in 2006.
The E-Class also registered strong growth in February. Sales of the
upper-range model series totaled 17,000 units, up 18 percent from the mark
posted in the same period last year. The E-Class sedan also celebrated a
significant sales milestone with more than one million units delivered since its
market launch in March 2002.
The S-Class continues to expand its market-leading position in the luxury
segment. In the first two months of this year, Mercedes-Benz delivered 16,900
vehicles in this segment. A particularly gratifying result is the success of the
CL-Class, making its Australian debut at the Melbourne Motor Show, which has
been the choice of 3,400 customers internationally since its European market
launch at the end of September 2006.
Sales of the A-Class and B-Class models also continue to be robust, reaching
a new record with 36,600 deliveries in the first two months of this year.
The increase in the first two months of this year was supported by growth in
all regions. In the United States, sales of Mercedes-Benz vehicles in January
and February of this year were up 15 percent from the same period last year,
reaching a record total of 34,400 units. Mercedes-Benz also set a sales record
in the Asia/Pacific region, with sales there climbing by 11 percent to 20,200
units in the first two months of 2007. With outstanding results posted in all
vehicle classes, sales in China (including Hong Kong), also developed especially
well: 4,800 Mercedes-Benz passenger vehicles were delivered to customers by the
end of February (an increase of 52 percent). In Western Europe, sales through
February increased by four percent from the same period last year, to 81,600
units.
The smart brand delivered 4,000 vehicles to customers worldwide in February
2007. Even in advance of the new smart fortwo’s official market launch in April,
an impressive number of orders have been received for the car. Just seven weeks
after the vehicle became available for ordering, more than 30,000 customers have
already placed orders for the new two-seater.
In Australia the Mercedes Car group has delivered 2487 units year to date (at
end February), representing an increase of 7 per cent over the same time last
year. This result has been driven by strong sales of the limited Super Sport
edition of the current C-Class, ahead of the launch of the new C-Class later
this year, and a 15 per cent increase in sales over last year’s February result
for the E-Class.
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