Mercedes Has Sold 1M Vehicles So Far In 2015

VW and Toyota may be battling for the top spot in sales, but Mercedes is still not starving.

Mercedes-benz leads the premium market in Canada!

That’s right fellow Canadians. You bought so many Mercedes-benz vehicles this year that the German luxury vehicle maker has personally thanked you for helping it achieve over One Million sales so far this year! That’s right, in seven months, Mercedes has surpassed the million-vehicle benchmark. Should make for some comfy winter driving for the people who just recently invested!

In a press release today, Mercedes-benz stated that they handed over 149,753 vehicles to customers in July, that’s a 15% increase from last year. Their total sales for the first seven months of this year was, 1,048,178 units, that’s 14% more than last year. Claiming their biggest contributor was strong sales of their C-class sedan and their compact cars including Smart.

“We passed the one-million mark already in July. Never before have we delivered so many cars to customers in the first seven months of a year. About a quarter of them are C-Class Saloons and Estates,” says Ola Källenius, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, responsible for Mercedes-Benz Cars Marketing & Sales.

Seems pretty accurate, we’ve already got calls from people looking to upgrade their wheels and tires on brand new CLA and GLA compacts, and some aren’t even delivered yet. It would appear the market for Mercedes remains strong in Canada as well, since they extended thanks to us along with Germany, Japan, Australia, and Portugal. So that should add some serious fuel to the German Car Superiority debates, take that every Audi who cuts me off on the highway in every blizzard!

We’re expecting a huge increase in run-flat winter tire demand this year due to these unprecedented surges in luxury vehicle sales. As you may or may not know, lots of these companies outfit their new cars with run-flats to save the weight added by a spare. This combined with winter-tire laws, leads to more run-flat demand than the industry can even supply. It’s a crazy ride once tire-season hits and all the new luxury owners are scrambling to make that November deadline.

Finally, Mercedes has supplied a chart for everyone to oversee their record breaking year so far, how nice of them

Overview of sales by Mercedes-Benz Cars

July 2015 Change. in % YTD 2015 Change.

in % Mercedes-Benz 149,753 +15.2 1,048,178 +14.7 smart 9,287 +23.7 71,451 +31.5 Mercedes-Benz Cars 159,040 +15.7 1,119,629 +15.7 Mercedes-Benz Sales in the Markets Europe 64,940 +11.6 457,468 +11.3 – thereof Germany 24,178 +7.8 156,569 +6.0 NAFTA 31,483 +3.9 220,858 +9.2 – thereof USA 27,526 +1.2 192,496 +7.7 Asia-Pacific 47,838 +30.8 332,377 +23.5 – thereof Japan 4,358 +13.5 36,947 +18.6 – thereof China 29,540 +41.5 194,861 +24.2

So that’s some 28,362 in Canada and Mexico so far this year and, 3,957 in July alone. So look to your neighbour on the left, and look to the one on the right, chances are they have a brand new Mercedes, or they will this winter!

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