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Originally Posted by autopal
If you remove the non-luxury from both companies numbers (ie BMW's Mini and MB's Smart) the numbers are even more telling.
Mercedes April -164,063
BMW - 150,542.
Year to date, Mercedes lead is just over 18,000 units. It's gonna be hard for BMW to retain the sales crown this year, both globally and in the US
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Yeah. With a combination of an aging 3er and highly successful relaunch of the W205 C-Class, BMW just got caught in a bad situation. When the W205 got released in the second half of 2014, I thought Mercedes was a going to take the sales crown last year with a full year of sales so it was only a matter of time before sales of the C-Class were going to put Mercedes in the lead. Even with the G30 5er expected to go on sale late this year in some regions, it's not going to do much to lessen the gap.