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Mercedes breaks record for single-month sales
Mercedes set a new company record for sales in a single month as March volume rose 13 percent to 158,523 vehicles. Demand for the E class and Mercedes’ growing lineup of compacts is driving the growth.
Mercedes touts GLA’s sporty looks
Mercedes-Benz expects a 70 percent conquest rate for the GLA, the brand’s smallest and cheapest SUV.
The GLA joins the A-class hatchback, B-class minivan and coupe-styled CLA sedan in an expanding compact lineup. At 4417mm long, the GLA fits between its main competitors, the Audi Q3 (4390mm) and the BMW X1 (4450mm).
Mercedes closes China sales gap with Audi by one-third
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz slashed second-place Audi’s luxury-car sales lead by almost one-third in the first two months of 2014 on surging demand for its models in China.
Through February, Mercedes was 26,647 sales behind Audi compared with 36,804 during the same period last year.
Mercedes, Infiniti to pool small cars, plant
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and Nissan’s Infiniti plan to pool development of compact cars to cut costs, expand the German carmaker’s North American production and broaden the Infiniti lineup, people familiar with the matter said.The outline deal, which reinforces Daimler’s relationship with the Renault-Nissan alliance, will see Nissan build the next-generation Mercedes GLA SUV and related models in Mexico alongside all-new cars for its own Infiniti brand, said the sources, who asked not to be identified.
