Mercedes Car Group sales are down 1.3 pct.
The German-American automaker DaimlerChrysler, which is in the process of selling its Chrysler unit to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, announced that overall sales by its Mercedes Car Group, including the famous Mercedes-Benz brand and the smaller Smart GmbH unit, are down 1.3 percent to 117,200 cars in comparison with June 2006.
For the first six months of the year sales were down 1.5 percent with 617,700 cars sold compared to the same time period of 2006. Sales of the Smart fortwo which is a two-seat micro car that will go on sale in the U.S. next year, fell 20.9 percent in June to 9,900 sold units, from 12,600 a year earlier.
But Mercedes-Benz sales grew to 107,300 in June, compared to 106,200 a year earlier, while six-month sales rose to 575,700 from 565,300 in the year-ago period.
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