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Mercedes-Benz in March: strongest-ever sales month with more than 228,000 cars sold

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Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse Cabriolet; 2017; Exterieur: rubellitrot metallic, 25th Anniversary Edtion; Interieur: tizianrot / macchiatobeige; Zierteile: Holz Ulme hellbraun offenporig // Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet; 2017; exterior: rubellite red metallic, 25th anniversary edtion; interior: tizian red / macchiato beige, trim parts: open-pore light brown elm wood

  • Mercedes-Benz sold more vehicles in March than ever before in one month: 228,296 cars were handed over to customers, an increase of 14.8%.

  • From January to March, Mercedes-Benz achieved sales of 560,625 units (+16%) – its best quarter of all time.

  • In the Europe region, more than 100,000 vehicles were sold in one month for the first time.

  • A new best-ever month for the E-Class Saloon and Estate with 35,626 units sold and 64.7% growth.

Mercedes-Benz can be extremely satisfied with its car sales in the first three months of this year. March 2017 was the strongest sales month in the history of Mercedes-Benz with growth of 14.8% and 228,296 vehicles delivered. The first quarter of 2017 also surpassed all previous quarters, with sales rising by 16% to 560,625 units. In March,Mercedes-Benz was the premium-market leader in countries including Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and Mexico.

“In the first quarter of 2017, Mercedes-Benz delivered 560,625 vehicles to customers worldwide, an increase of 16 percent. That’s the highest number of cars we have ever sold in one quarter,” stated Britta Seeger, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Mercedes-Benz Cars Marketing & Sales. “The E-Class Saloon and Estate continued along their successful path in March with growth of around 65 percent. The bestselling model series of Mercedes-Benz has now been completed with the new E-Class Cabriolet, which we presented to the public at the Geneva Motor Show, right on time for the start of spring.”

Mercedes-Benz unit sales by region and market

In Europe, Mercedes-Benz handed over more than 100,000 vehicles to customers for the first time in one month: A total of 109,237 units were sold in March (+11.8%). Demand for automobiles with the three-pointed star resulted in sales of 233,329 units in the first quarter (+10.8%), the highest number ever sold in the first three months of a year. Mercedes-Benz achieved double-digit growth in March and in the first quarter in the Great Britain, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Poland. In Germany, the domestic market, Mercedes-Benz delivered 70,594 cars to its customers in the first quarter of this year (+8.9%).

Unit sales in the Asia-Pacific region increased to the new record of 78,649 cars with the star this March (+23.1%). And in the first three months of the year, Mercedes-Benz delivered more vehicles to customers than ever before in a quarter (219,418 units, +27.4%). In China, Mercedes-Benz increased its unit sales in March by more than 30% and handed over 49,871 vehicles to its customers, a new record. In South Korea, Australia and Malaysia, the Stuttgart-based company set best-ever figures for sales in March and in the first quarter.

Mercedes-Benz achieved best-ever sales in March also in the NAFTA region, where 34,922 automobiles were sold, an increase of 6.3%. Furthermore Mercedes-Benz recorded its highest number of cars ever sold in a first quarter with a total of 94,142 vehicles delivered to customers in the region (+7.1%). New records for the first quarter were also set for each of the individual NAFTA countries: the USA, Canada and Mexico. In the USA, demand for Mercedes-Benz automobiles increased by 4.5% in the first three months of the year, resulting in sales of 79,141 units.