Canada strong – but for how long?

by (RSS feed) May 5th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

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Canadian sales for the three-pointed star in April were the best results in the company’s history.  While the whole Canadian light passenger vehicle market grew by 3.7%, Benz was way ahead of the game with gains of 22% over April 2007.  This is a fantastic achievement for a luxury manufacturer, especially when compared to the 3% decline in the U.S.

Much of this success was due to strong diesel sales. If Benz would just roll out diesel across all their models….

How long can the growth continue?  Ontario, Canada’s largest market, may be heading into recession so it can’t last forever, but so far so good for 2008.

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500,000 Mercedes-Benz SLK Delivered to Customers

by (RSS feed) May 5th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

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With the delivery of the 500,000th vehicle since its market launch in 1996, Mercedes-Benz has now reached another milestone with the successful SLK compact roadster. About 310,000 customers opted for a model from the first generation of this dynamic two-seater, and its successor has now sold 190,000 units since its market launch in March 2004.

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Greenpeace using M-Class and Cayenne to protest

by (RSS feed) May 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

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In an effort to protest the export of soybeans from Argentina and the increase of pollution resulting from the export, Greenpeace has come up with very clever and attention grabbing stunt to symbolize their protest. A Mercedes M-Class and a Porsche Cayenne have been decorated to look like a pair of bulldozers while fake tree stumps have been placed around them.

While Bio-diesel vehicles are hailed to be the most environment friendly cars on the road, Greenpeace doesn’t think that, they are continuing their efforts to stop soybean production and the increase of pollution resulting cutting down trees to make room for more beans.

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Salão Automóvel de Portugal: Mercedes-Benz and Smart

by (RSS feed) May 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am

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As promised, Benzinsider was at the Salà£o Automà³vel de Portugal and we have lots of pictures for you. Mercedes-Benz and Smart presented the visitors with some serious machines. As we posted earlier, there was the SLR 722, the C Class DTM, the CLS 63 AMG and many more. There were really no new models (no GLK) but there were the refreshed versions for the European markets (A, B, SL, SLK). It was a great event!

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Mercedes-Benz April Sales down 3%

by (RSS feed) May 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm

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Mercedes-Benz is reporting today, that their US sales have dropped by 3% from from 20,895 in April of last year to 20,271 last month. The sales decline was mostly due to the poor performance of the R-Class and E-Class models; consumers are sending a clear message to Mercedes that it’s time for a new E-Class, possibly even a new R-Class, but with a better approach to the crossover concept.

Overall Daimler U.S. sales, including Mercedes-Benz and smart USA cars, totaled 22,954 vehicles.

E-Class sales fell 20 percent to 3,208 vehicles, from 4,011 in April 2007. Sales of the R-Class crossover fell to 735 last month, compared with 1,213 a year earlier.

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