Mercedes-Benz is now the top selling luxury car brand in the US.

Mercedes-Benz beats BMW, as the king of luxury cars in America

The Stuttgart-based automaker has officially taken home the title as the best selling luxury automaker in the United States

In total Mercedes sold 340,237 cars throughout 2016 in US.
Lexus followed in second place with 331,228 cars sold.
BMW finished third with 313,174 sales.

Mercedes took the 2016 U.S. luxury title even its sales for last year declined, but the results were strong enough to beat Lexus and BMW.