The New GLA may be in Short Supply

If you are a prospective buyer in the luxury crossover car market and interested.

If you are a prospective buyer in the luxury crossover car market and interested in grabbing one of the new Mercedes Benz GLA's be sure to get them while they are available. The reasons for this are not manifold and can be basically summed up with one word - competition with China.

The United States based dealers expect the Mercedes Benz GLA compact to be in high demand when the new Benz is set out in the market place next September due the vehicles ever growing and already quite substantial popularity. In fact, the GLA is highly expected to be far harder to come across than the Mercedes Benz CLA compact sedan which was put out on the market only a scant year ago. This expected scarcity is largely attributed, and by some, wholly attributed, to what many are calling an insane crossover situation. Steve Cannon, CEO of Mercedes Benz USA called the recent marketplace a "crossover crazy market."

The CLA was released in September and has had very high demand. In contrast the supply has dipped markedly, at times going to only a scant nine days. This is in yet another contrast to the expected forty five day supply which Mercedes Benz desires. Current supply is well below thirty days total.

Steven Cannon has publicly stated that he sees a similar pinched future for the unfortunately coveted Mercedes Benz GLA line. He replied that US Mercedes Benz has a lot of production constraints; that they are not going to be able to put out nearly as many GLA's as they had hoped or expected to. He also said that there was little hope to find out what the natural volume would be for the GLA line. He further went on to say that the United States is in keen competition with China. This competition is born of primacy in vehicle allocation since demand is equally strong. Mercedes has the edge currently since the U.S. is their biggest market. Yet China is making big strides and is expected to become the big number one this coming year.

As of 2013, the United States section of Mercedes Benz has been getting a lot of cars from a declining Europe. Competition will be stiff with the Mercedes GLA going up against such contenders as the Audi Q3, the BMW X1 and the Land Rover Evoque. It is expected to fare well in terms of side by side comparisons with lots of equipment like collision evasion assistance, auto brake, Bluetooth and a power lift gate. However, only the future will tell.

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