Mercedes Is Back On Top
Advertisement 1st Gear: Mercedes Beat BMW, Audi, And Lexus In The First-Quarter In The U.S. For now, in the first quarter, BMW is third, with Lexus second, and with Audi in a distant fourth with a lot of catching up to do, per Bloomberg: Mercedes sold 78,256 vehicles in the first three months of 2021, up 16% from a year earlier, led by the GLE sport-utility vehicle and its more-compact sibling, the GLC. Toyota Motor Corp’s luxury Lexus brand outsold BMW for the No. 2 spot, with a 32% jump to 74,253 for the quarter. The Lexus RX and NX SUVs made up more than a third of those sales.
Source: jalopnik.com