By Gary S. Vasilash

Although there is increasing rhetoric about the U.S. economy being bad, you really couldn’t come to that conclusion based on the Q2 2023 sales of Mercedes-Benz in the U.S.

It achieved some impressive figures, such as sales in its “Top-End” segment of 26,927 units, or a 40% increase compared to Q2 2022.

A standout for the brand in that segment is the G-Class, that seriously geometric vehicle that seems as though it could bash through brick walls without a scratch while driving up hill in sand towing a full-size Airstream trailer.

G-Class sales were up 553%.

There were 3,088 of them sold in Q2.

It starts at ~$140,000.

And over on the electric vehicle side of things, the EQS, which starts at $104,400, was delivered 2,456 times, for a 25% rise compared with Q2 ’22.

It is worth knowing that the non-electric S-Class had sales of 3,164, a comparative decrease of 19.3% from Q2 ’22, which could be interpreted as those who have some serious money to spend on vehicles are going electric.