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Old Aug 21, 2006 | 10:59 PM
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Who sells more cars Benz or BMW ?

Anyone here know where I can find out stats on the sales of BWM's vs Mercedes over all? who sells more world wide etc..

I personally feel Mercedes sells alot more vehicles than BMW but my bias friend is saying other wise.
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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 12:23 AM
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MBZ sold over a million passenger cars last year -- BMW isn't even close to that, no way, no how....

Go to each corporate site and look for 'sales figures' or 'sales reports'.
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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 01:45 AM
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BMW outsells Mercedes both in the U.S. Below are the worldwide sales figures for July 2006 and YTD 2006:

BMW: 86,597 (-7.7%) ... YTD 683,724 (+8.2%)
Mercedes-Benz: 92,700 (+5.1%) ... YTD 658,000 (+11.9%)


Mercedes sales information:

Worldwide:

http://www.emercedesbenz.com/Aug06/0...t_In_July.html

In the U.S. YTD to July 2006:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...2006,+12:33+PM


BMW Sales Information:

In The U.S. YTD up to July 2006:

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2...01/016740.html


Some really good information from 1999-2005 Worldwide figures:

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bm...roduktion.html


BMW does outsell Mercedes.

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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 02:26 AM
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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by ClayJ
MBZ sold over a million passenger cars last year -- BMW isn't even close to that, no way, no how....

Go to each corporate site and look for 'sales figures' or 'sales reports'.
Did 999,999 come from you?
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Old Aug 22, 2006 | 12:28 PM
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Bmw Over Took World Top Luxury Sales Leader Last Year..previous To That It Was Mercedes

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Old Aug 25, 2006 | 11:16 AM
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BMW has 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 series, X3, X5, Z4 and maybe one more model

It also makes motorcycles and the Mini.

It's a pretty small company, basically privately owned.

Merc has A, B, C, E, and S, the ML, GL, G, and R, and a large array of coupes and convertibles I can no longer keep straight.

Then there is Maybach and the McLaren SLR.

AMG is a bigger deal than the Motorsport (M) division.

Plus it has oodles of vans, medium and very large trucks, busses, etc.

At one time or another it's also owned AEG electronics and Gaggenau appliances.

It owns Detroit Diesel, and, I think VM. Freightliner.

It's a VERY LARGE corporation and of course owns Chrysler, including Jeep.

Hardly any comparison.
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Old Aug 25, 2006 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by lkchris
BMW has 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 series, X3, X5, Z4 and maybe one more model

It also makes motorcycles and the Mini.

It's a pretty small company, basically privately owned.

Merc has A, B, C, E, and S, the ML, GL, G, and R, and a large array of coupes and convertibles I can no longer keep straight.

Then there is Maybach and the McLaren SLR.

AMG is a bigger deal than the Motorsport (M) division.

Plus it has oodles of vans, medium and very large trucks, busses, etc.

At one time or another it's also owned AEG electronics and Gaggenau appliances.

It owns Detroit Diesel, and, I think VM. Freightliner.

It's a VERY LARGE corporation and of course owns Chrysler, including Jeep.

Hardly any comparison.
Don't forget Dodge. And the models that you missed are: CL, SL, CLK, SLK, CLS...plus the bagillion trim levels.
Not to mention the Unimog and Smart was well. Here's a good look of whats available just in the US, and there's more models coming out as well and trim levels.

http://www.mbusa.com/byo/select_anot...samGotBack=yes

Here's a good idea of what DaimlerChrysler in general has to offer.
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/dccom...-0-0-0-0.html#


Here's all that BMW has to offer.
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/index_narrowband.html

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"Reporting its results for the second quarter of 2006, sales of its BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce vehicles rose 3.2% from a year earlier to 365,547 units."

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Old Aug 25, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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I love both companys, (benz a little more), only performance numbers matter to me.
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Old Aug 26, 2006 | 01:00 AM
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Mercedes sells a huge number of commercial vehicles.

Many taxicabs in western Europe are Mercedes Diesel sedans; especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, etc.

Mercedes sells many buses, both under the Mercedes label and the Setra label. They also sell lots of trucks. They have a huge market share in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. As previously mentioned, they sell Freightliner in the US and Canada.

BMW builds fine automobiles, but the company is dwarfed by Mercedes.
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Old Aug 26, 2006 | 08:12 AM
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In short BMW sells more passenger vehicles than Mercedes does, both here in the U.S. and worldwide to answer the original poster's question.

Speaking of buses I was behind one the other day and it had that largest MB star I've ever seen! I mean it looked to be about the size of a sewer hole cover. The bus wasn't a small item either, really tall and super wide...appearing to barely to be able to squeeze itself down Chicago's Michigan ave.

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Old Aug 26, 2006 | 11:27 AM
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Don't forget Dodge.
Didn't--it's part of Chrysler.

But, I did forget SMART!
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