Luxury Brands Still Lagging In American Auto-Sales Recovery

Based on the U.S. sales numbers reported at the end of 2012, BMW, excluding its MINI and Rolls-Royce brands, sold 281,460 cars and SUVs last year.

Luxury car brands like Audi, BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Infiniti, and Jaguar are on display at the New York International Auto Show.

Black Friday for luxury cars is coming right up. That's especially the case for luxury brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus. This year, it looks as if Mercedes-Benz USA has a safe lead to be the No. 1-selling luxury brand in the United States, according to AutoData Corp. The BMW brand is a close second, ...

The luxury brands will offer some vehicles without the rear-wheel drive they have long embraced. Advantages include lower cost and better fuel efficiency.For decades, Mercedes-Benz and BMW have made rear-wheel drive central to their definitions of performance and luxury, even as the rest of the industry embraced front-wheel drive long ago.

Mercedes-Benz (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Things got really interesting in August in the ongoing battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz (with Lexus trying to make a game of it again) for the U.S. luxury-sales crown. In the month, Mercedes-Benz extended its neck-and-neck lead over the BMW brand for year-to-date sales through July into a [...]

High-end car marques dominate the most-searched luxury brands in Brazil rankings from Digital Luxury Group and Luxury Society.

German car maker BMW reinforced its claim to be the world's leading premium auto maker ahead of Audi and Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, after releasing figures for May on Wednesday.BMW, which also owns the Mini and Rolls-Royce brands, said it delivered a total of 147,563 vehicles last month, for an annualised gain of 21 percent.Sales of BMW's own brand marques were 19 percent higher at 121,168, placing it ahead of Audi, which reported sales of 113,400 for a gain of 19.5 percent on the year.Mercedes sold 108,766 autos in May, a gain of 7.3 percent.