Toronto, Oct 03, 2006
Mercedes-Benz Canada set a string of new performance records in September as the company posted its best ever September, its best third quarter sales, and a new sales benchmark for the first three quarters.
September, with Mercedes Car Group sales (Mercedes-Benz, smart, Maybach) at 1,421 units, capped off a fast paced third quarter in which the company delivered 4,081 units. YTD volume of 13,347 units also represented a new best and an increase of 15.9% for the Group.
On the Mercedes-Benz side, September sales reached 1,229 units for an increase of 17%, while year-to-date volume attained new heights with 10,680 units and an improvement of 25.5% over the previous year.
The smart brand maintained strong momentum in September with deliveries of 192 units, which resulted in year-to-date volume of 2,667 units. smart was the leader in the premium lifestyle microcar segment through the first nine months of the year.
At the same time, Mercedes-Benz Canada also reported its best ever pre-owned car month in September, with deliveries of 682 pre-owned Mercedes-Benz units. This performance represented a gain of 50% over the previous year and resulted in an unprecedented year-to-date increase in pre-owned retail deliveries of 22%.
"We are particularly pleased that our growth this year has been so broadly based right across all of our model lines, and that all our model series have been contributing fairly equally to the gain in our volume", noted Marcus Breitschwerdt, President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Canada. He added: "Even more gratifying is the fact that we have seen a lot of growth at the uppermost end of the price spectrum, at the highest level of the luxury market."
