Luxury car brands ‘positive’ about UK and US
09/01/2013
The Land Rover brand notched up its best year to date, with sales rising almost 25% to 54,480 vehicles.
The carmaker said in a statement: "It's a positive 2013 outlook for Jaguar in the UK with a full year of XF Sportbrake sales, the launch of the XFR-S saloon and the highly anticipated F-TYPE two-seater sports car.”
Meanwhile, Mercedes is looking to the US for its good news story, after “significantly” exceeding its sales target in December.
Steve Cannon, head of its US operations, said the company could have sold even more, with numbers limited by the availability of M-Class and GL-Class sport-utility vehicles. “You’ve got to sell within the constraints of your product line,” he said. “We could have sold thousands more in the US. We didn’t get that allocation.”
Sales of Mercedes vehicles in the US rose 12% to over 274,000 in 2012.
However, rival BMW increased sales by 13.5% to 281,500 over the year, to take the best-performing spot.
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