Audi sold 2.3 percent more cars during the last month on growing need for the redesigned top-selling A4 saloon, though kept tracking behind German high-end competitors, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
Audi’s worldwide sales rose to 149,400 cars and sport-utility vehicles from 146,073 a year previously, the Ingolstadt-based automaker stated on Thursday, with its year-to-date deliveries up 5.2 percent to 1.10 million automobiles.
Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz recently posted a 9.4 percent boost in sales to 163,770 cars, its best-ever July outcome, compared to a 4 percent gain at BMW’s core brand to 153,392.
After seven months, Mercedes-Benz is on its way to become the world’s biggest luxury carmaker by sales, replacing BMW which has kept the lead from the year of 2005.
