Audi AG is racing to close the sales gap with BMW AG the worlds largest luxury car maker, and it may get there faster than expected. Audi, which is owned by German auto giant Volkswagen AG, is already on track to overtake Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz brand as the world's second-best selling premium marque after BMW by selling 1.3 million cars this year, and expects to grow faster than the overall car market in 2012 as prices hold firm despite slowing economic growth worldwide, according to Chief Executive Rupert Stadler.
"We're planning for another surge of growth next year," Mr. Stadler said in a recent interview in his office at the firm's headquarters in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt, 50 miles north of Munich.
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