SA: Mercedes Benz looking to continue record sales run

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SA: Mercedes Benz looking to continue record sales run

By Tim Dornin, National Motoring Correspondent

ADELAIDE, Feb 20 AAP - Luxury car maker Mercedes Benz is confident of continuing itsrecord-breaking sales run in Australia this year, depending on the economic fallout fromany war in Iraq.

Managing director Matthias Luhrs said the company's fortunes would be influenced bythe global economic impact of any military conflict, but that impact remained hard tojudge.

"It depends on if there is a war and how long it lasts," Mr Luhrs said at the launchof the new S-Class range this week.

"And we just don't know how long that …