2018 New York International Auto Show

USPA NEWS - New York. Speaking at the 2018 New York International Auto Show, Dietmar Exler, President & CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, provided a review of a successful year 2017 and the strong start to 2018.

“We sold more than 337,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles here last year, confirming our position as the number one luxury auto brand in the USA,“ said Dietmar Exler, President & CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA. “Our C-Class models were an absolute home run. We sold over 77,000 examples of this extremely popular model.“ This success story continued in 2018 with the best February in the history of Mercedes-Benz USA.

Moreover, the coupe and cabriolet versions of the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class celebrated their world premieres at the New York International Auto Show 2018. In the fifth year of production of the C-Class, this best-selling series in recent years comes from the inventor of the automobile to market with wide-ranging optimizations.

Also on show were the performance variants of the C-Class from Mercedes-AMG, which had already celebrated their world premieres at the “Meet Mercedes-AMG“ event the previous evening, as well as the new edition of the Mercedes-AMG G 63 performance off-road vehicle (fuel consumption combined: 13.1 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 299 g/ km)1 and the first four-door sports car from Affalterbach ““ the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe (fuel consumption combined: 11.2-9.1 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined: 256-209 g/km)2.