{"id":114185,"date":"2015-01-07T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=114185"},"modified":"2015-01-07T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:40:13","slug":"bmw-audi-and-mercedes-benz-post-record-u-s-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2015\/01\/07\/bmw-audi-and-mercedes-benz-post-record-u-s-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz Post Record U.S. Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"BMW 3-Series GT\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-64119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image00005.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three German automotive superpowers, <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/bmw\/\" title=\"BMW\">BMW<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/audi\/\" title=\"Audi\">Audi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/category\/supercars\/mercedes\/\" title=\"Mercedes\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a> have each recorded their best ever year of sales in the United States through 2014.<\/p>\n<p>BMW came out on top after it sold a total of 339,738 vehicles which represents a 9.8 per cent increase over 2013 where it sold 309,280 cars. The most popular BMW models in the U.S. proved to be the 3-Series\/4-Series with a total of 142,232 examples finding new homes.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing just behind BMW in sales was Mercedes-Benz. It managed 330,391 sales throughout the 12 months of 2014 which is a 5.7 per cent jump over the previous year. Understandably, the C-Class most the German firm\u2019s most successful model with 75,065 sold.<\/p>\n<p>As for Audi, it managed 182,011 vehicle sales in the U.S. for 2014 which is a considerable 15 per cent rise from 2013 and the 158,061 cars it sold then. The Audi Q5 was the automaker\u2019s best-selling model with 42,420 units sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three German automotive superpowers, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz have each recorded their best ever year of sales in the United States through 2014. BMW came out on top after it sold a total of 339,738 vehicles which represents a 9.8 per cent increase over 2013 where it sold 309,280 cars. The most popular BMW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":64119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,75,10,69],"tags":[74,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}