BERLIN, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The world leading luxury automobile producer Daimler got a strong boost in demand from domestic market in August, with its sales volume of Mercedes-Benz cars keeping on rise.

The sales of Mercedes-Benz cars totaled up to 87,384 in numbers in August, 2011, up by 7.9 percent year-on-year.

In its most important home market of Germany, the honor brand witnessed a domestic sales leap up by 23.2 percent to reach at 19,412 units in August alone.

"Our sales continued to develop very well in August. Germany, as our largest market, was an important growth driver, as well as many other markets in which we increased our sales considerably," said Joachim Schmidt, head of Sales and Marketing at Mercedes-Benz Cars, who is also responsible for sales companies around the world.

He also expected a strong momentum of sales in the second half of 2011, saying that record sales over the past eight months have created a very good basis for the company to meet its full-year target of selling over 1.35 million Mercedes-Benz cars and Smart Fortwo, more than ever before.

The overall sales so far this year in the first eight months have been rocketed by avalanche momentum as its total unit sales hiked by 8.4 percent to amount to 867,379 units.

Mercedes-Benz USA reported a total of 20,728 units for August, up by 5.4 percent year-on-year, a record August sales since 2007, compared with an increase of 3.2 percent in China.

Source:yan