Helped by the hefty Sprinter commercial van and the diminutive Smart 2-seat city car, Mercedes-Benz USA will break its annual sales-volume record this year, predicts Steve Cannon, vice president-marketing. “We should finish 2011 with sales that are north of 240,000 units” when the Sprinter and Smart are included in the total, he tells WardsAuto.
The German auto maker’s deliveries through November totaled 238,971, according to Ward’s data. Cannon says that’s a 12% improvement over like-2010, adding, “We might drop to 10% by year-end, but it will be the first time we will trounce Lexus.”
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