Mercedes-Benz Is America’s Best Selling Luxury Car for Third Year Running
- Daimler brand beats BMW by fewer than 5,000 vehicles
- Audi stumbles, reports its first annual drop since 2009
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Fewer than 5,000 vehicles separated the top two luxury brands by sales in the U.S. last year, with Mercedes-Benz barely topping BMW for a third straight victory.
Daimler AG’s Mercedes limped a bit over the finish line with a 9.1 percent drop in December. The 315,959 cars and sport utility vehicles the brand delivered last year still were 4,945 more than BMW AG’s namesake division. BMW was the only one of the four biggest luxury brands to increase sales in 2018.