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Record July in Europe for Chrysler and Jeep Brands

5 August 1999

Record July in Europe for Chrysler and Jeep Brands Highlights DaimlerChrysler Sales Outside North America

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 4 -- Sales of the Jeep(R) Grand
Cherokee and the Chrysler 300M led DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler and
Jeep brands to their best July ever in Europe, with 10,539 cars and trucks
delivered to customers, a 6 percent jump for those brands over July 1998.
Chrysler and Jeep brands had double-digit or higher upswings in the United
Kingdom, Greece, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and Italy.  Grand Cherokee
sales outside North America in total were 4,482, a 55 percent surge over last
July.  Sales for the Chrysler 300M were 702, up 47 percent from July 1998.
    Sales outside North America for the Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep brands as a
whole were down 9 percent for the month of July, with 15,983 vehicles sold,
compared to 17,503 in the year earlier period.  Bright spots included Puerto
Rico, with sales of 615 vehicles, a 17 percent increase; Saudi Arabia, with
sales of 261, a 39 percent increase over the previous year; and Kuwait, with
113 units sold, a 38 percent jump over sales in July 1998.
    Regionally, July sales were 2,771 in Latin America, a 25 percent decline
from July 1998.  Asia-Pacific sales were 1,813, down 39 percent from the
previous year.  Middle East/Africa sales were 860, off 8 percent from the
previous year.