Mercedes-Benz USA Sets All-Time Sales Record in 2015
Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) recently announced the company experienced its strongest sales year ever in the United States with 380,461 sold in 2015.
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A record-breaking December, with sales of 38,918 vehicles, pushed MBUSA past last year’s record sales of 366,589 vehicles, which was a growth of 3.8%.
The C-Class, M/GLE-Class, and E-Class model lines were the best-sellers for MBUSA in 2015. The C-Class took top honors with 86,080 units sold, followed by the M/GLE-Class, which moved 53,213 units. The E-Class accounted for 49,736 vehicles sold in 2015.
For the month of December, the C-Class was MBUSA’s highest-seller with 7,023 units moved and the GLE-Class was close behind with 6,310 vehicles sold. Mercedes-Benz has sold 20,663 GLE units since it made its US debut in August. In total, MBUSA sold 38,918 vehicles in its record-setting December, which was a 1.7% improvement over last December’s sales of 38,270 vehicles sold.
Mercedes AMG high-performance models saw a 54.4% year-over-year sales increase to 17,456 vehicles sold and Mercedes-Benz Vans moved 29,889 units in 2015.
“This has been a great year and we begin 2016 with strong momentum from the recent launches of our GLE and GLC models,” said Dietmar Exler, president and CEO of MBUSA. “We’ll have a constant stream of new products in 2016 – cabriolets, coupes and AMG models – leading us to yet another banner year.”
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