The carmaker sold over 142,000 cars last month, a rise of 15.9 percent, driven by demand in China and the United States, particularly for Mercedes' A-, C- and CLA class cars, the paper said. "The figures are in the right ballpark," a spokeswoman for Daimler said, adding sales data were due to be published on Friday. Reporting by Victoria Bryan, Christiaan Hetzner, Thomas Seythal and Hans Seidenstuecker; Writing by Jonathan Gould; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer and Mark Potter