Audi AG has closed within 44,100 units of Mercedes-Benz in global sales after 11 months. This is a remarkable development considering that a year ago, the gap that separated Mercedes-Benz, a unit of Daimler AG, and Audi, a Volkswagen AG subsidiary, was 114,611 units sold.
Audi was also able to halve the distance between it and premium-car sales leader BMW brand. BMW may have led Audi by 184,294 units a year ago but last month the gap had narrowed to 93,112. Despite Audi’s gains, which are supported by increasing sales in China, it is still in third place in global sales.
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