Sales of luxury SUVs are leading the way. Every foreign luxury manufacturer with a plant in North America builds at least one sport utility: Next year, the expanded Mercedes-Benz plant will add a second model alongside the M-Class. It will be called the GST, for Grand Sport Tourer.
Producing SUVs here means that factories in Europe and Japan can concentrate on producing luxury cars, which sell better overseas than light trucks.
"The American market is very truck happy," Brauer said, adding, "The first truck-type vehicle that BMW built was an X5 in South Carolina that had nothing to do with Europe at all."
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