(September 6, 2016) STUTTGART — Mercedes-Benz delivered more than 156,000 vehicles to customers in August — an increase of 11.8%. The main contribution towards this increase came from the strong rise in unit sales of SUVs of approximately 40 percent. Mercedes-Benz was able to surpass its strongest August to date in the previous year due to double-digit growth in the Asia-Pacific region and in the domestic market.

Two sales milestones were also passed last month — more than four million SUVs and 15,000 Mercedes-Maybach S-Class vehicles have been sold since their market launches.

Mercedes-Benz has been setting new records month by month for three and a half years in a row, and in the period of January to August, deliveries increased by 11.7% to 1,326,635 units — more than ever before in the first eight months of a year.

Sales in Europe, the biggest region for Mercedes-Benz, increased to a new high of 56,809 units in August (+12.9%). The proportion of vehicles sold in Germany was particularly high last month: 23.530 units went to customers in the domestic market (+11.9%). The region’s growth was also due to strong unit sales in the markets of Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain and Belgium which all rose at double-digit rates. In Germany, France, Spain and Portugal, the Stuttgart-based company with the three-pointed star was the premium brand with the largest number of new registrations in August.

Sales by Mercedes-Benz in the Asia-Pacific region reached the new high of 61,605 units in August (+20.1%), with 41,072 vehicles delivered to customers in China (+25.4%).

In the U.S., 28,404 new owners took possession of new car. In Canada and Mexico, Mercedes-Benz was the market leader among the premium manufacturers last month.