{"id":6829,"date":"2012-01-03T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2012-01-03T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T05:53:43","slug":"more-than-two-million-mercedes-benz-suvs-delivered-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/more-than-two-million-mercedes-benz-suvs-delivered-to-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Two Million Mercedes-Benz SUVs Delivered to Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/more-than-two-million-mercedes-benz-suvs-delivered-to-customers\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><p>More than 2 million of Mercedes-Benz G-Class, M-Class, R-Class, GL-Class and GLK-Class models have been delivered to customers since the launch of Mercedes-Benz\u2019s first SUV (G-Class) over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mercedes Benz M-Klasse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mercedes-Benz-ML250-630x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing Mercedes-Benz Cars: \u201cOur entire SUV family is extremely popular among our customers, particularly in the USA and in its second-largest market China. With the launch of our first sports utility vehicle \u2013 the G-Class \u2013 more than 30 years ago, we entered a segment in which we are now very successful with a total of five models. The SUVs today are an important pillar of Mercedes-Benz\u2019s growth and have achieved a new sales record in every month since July 2010. The new Mercedes-Benz M-Class, which has enjoyed fantastic customer response to date, will give sales a further boost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SUV models account for around one-fifth of global Mercedes-Benz sales. By far the largest market for the SUV family as well as the M-, GLK-, and GL-Class are the United States. The second largest market for the SUVs is China, followed by Germany. The classic sports utility vehicle, the G-Class, is most popular in its domestic market Germany, while the R-Class is most in demand in China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest star of the Mercedes-Benz SUV family is the third generation of the M-Class, which was launched last November. One of its strongest features is its outstanding energy efficiency. As the most fuel-efficient SUV in its segment, the M-Class became the first vehicle in its class to receive the prestigious T\u00dcV (Technical Control Board) environmental certificate \u2013 just in time for its launch. The strengths of the permanent 4-wheel-drive premium SUV also include excellent safety features and well-balanced driving comfort with strong driving dynamics both on- and off-road. Thanks to its outstanding safety systems, the M-Class was recognized as the best vehicle in its segment and awarded the top five star rating under the European NCAP (New Car Assessment Programme) for excellent occupant protection.<\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/more-than-two-million-mercedes-benz-suvs-delivered-to-customers\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2 million of Mercedes-Benz G-Class, M-Class, R-Class, GL-Class and GLK-Class models have been delivered to customers since the launch of Mercedes-Benz\u2019s first SUV (G-Class) over 30 years ago. &nbsp; \u00a0 &nbsp; Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing Mercedes-Benz Cars: \u201cOur entire SUV family is extremely popular among our customers, particularly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6389,6385,6387,6388,6386,6379,6382,6383,6380,6384,6391,6390,6381],"class_list":["post-6829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mercedes-benz","tag-dr-joachim-schmidt","tag-g-class","tag-gl-class","tag-glk-class","tag-m-class","tag-mercedes-benz-g-class","tag-mercedes-benz-gl-class","tag-mercedes-benz-glk-class","tag-mercedes-benz-m-class","tag-mercedes-benz-r-class","tag-mercedes-benz-suv","tag-mercedes-benz-suv-family","tag-r-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}