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BMW widens U.S. lead over Mercedes on SUV demand

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July 02, 2019 09:39 PM

BMW more than doubled its U.S. sales lead over Daimler's Mercedes-Benz in June with a strong performance from its fresher line of SUVs.

Deliveries jumped 7.5 percent last month to 31,627, paced by the X3 and the larger X7 SUVs, BMW said in a statement.

While BMW sales dipped 1.1 percent at the half-year mark, the brand built a lead over Mercedes of more than 9,000 units.

Sales for Mercedes, which held the luxury crown the past three years, were little changed in June from a year ago at 26,196 units, leaving the Daimler division down 7.2 percent in the first half. Deliveries plunged more than 30 percent for both the C-class sedan and GLS crossover.

Tesla could also figure as a luxury sales leader, but it does not break out its results on a monthly basis. For the quarter, Tesla said it delivered 95,200 vehicles, a new quarterly record for the automaker that more than doubled the 40,740 deliveries it reported during the same three months of 2018.

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