MANAMA: Bahrain’s Mercedes-Benz dealers Al Haddad Motors have announced 2012 as its best ever year, attributing record sales results to its SUV and AMG models.

The German carmaker reported 15 consecutive months of double-digit growth while its high-performance AMG division also reported its best ever annual results, surpassing its 2011 sales by 61 per cent.

Al Haddad Motors Mercedes-Benz passenger cars sales manager Mark Price said their team had worked hard in the past year.

He said SUV sales have increased by 38pc and sales of the newly launched G 63 AMG and G 65 AMG variants rose 74pc.

“Regional sales were up 16.7pc on 2011’s results and beat its previous record set in 2008.

“Mercedes-Benz has defined its strategy until 2020, and we will have 13 new car lines without a predecessor,” said company general manager Graeme Newport.

“A lot of the work we did in 2012 in building our sales team as well as a large number of new models has clearly paid dividends.”