Daimler’s Dieter Zetsche has said he was “totally aiming at topping” 2010 sales in 2011 but acknowledged repeating last year’s 15.3% sales growth was “unrealistic.”
In an interview with Reuters ahead of the Detroit show, the automaker’s head and Mercedes-Benz Cars chief also said he expects global auto industry sales to grow 6% in 2011, a performance he said “would be a pretty nice tailwind for all of us”.
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Zetsche also said “the worst was over” in western Europe and that he expected industry sales to be “flat or slightly increasing” in 2011.
