One year after the launch in all core markets, Mercedes-Benz has already delivered over 100,000 S-Class models worldwide.
Never before have so many vehicles of the luxury sedan been delivered to customers in the first year of full availability. As such, to date this constitutes the most successful market launch of an S-Class. The new-generation S-Class is, however, not only making history with the most successful market launch, but also with the fastest market launch: within less than twelve weeks the S-Class went on sale in all three core markets: Germany (late July), China (late September) and United States (mid-October).
Since the start of this year, Mercedes-Benz has sold 75,391 S-Class models, twice as many as in the same period of the previous year (+105.8 percent). Thus more S-Class vehicles have been delivered to customers within the nine months of 2014 than in the full years 2012 or 2013. In September alone, the luxury sedan was sold 9,501 times (+139.3 percent).
The new S-Class will be available in six variants altogether. In addition to the short and long-wheelbase version, the S-Class Coupe was launched on 27 September. Three other exclusive derivatives are set to follow. A plug-in hybrid variant of the S-Class also went on sale at the end of September. Following the S400 Hybrid and the S300 BlueTec Hybrid, the S500 Plug-in Hybrid is therefore the third hybrid model in the new S-Class. The series production launch of this technology began at Mercedes-Benz in 2009. By 2017, Mercedes-Benz aims to launch nine further plug-in hybrid models.
