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BMW Group continued a strong year in 2012 in October with unit sales up 13.2% to 157,618 cars for the year so far; the company is up 8.8% for the year to 1,493,153 cars.  “Following a record third quarter, the BMW Group posted ...

It is nearly flat in Europe but up elsewhere

BMW Group sold 954,521 cars in the first six months of the year, a 6% increase, and it sold 184,489 cars in June, a 6.9%. “The BMW Group achieved its best ever sales figures in the first half of this year and last month, despite the prev...

BMW Group has set an all-time sales record for March. BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorcycles all had improved sales with BMW setting a single month record.  BMW sold 153,004 cars in March worldwide a 13.4% increase over last year. Its...

BMW Group reported its financial results for the second quarter at the end of last week, and its results were not great. Net Profits were down 28.3% over the second quarter of 2011, but now BMW has released its unit sales for July 2012. Things see...

The company will likely have another year of record sales

BMW Group set another monthly sales record for October with 165,851 cars sold worldwide, up 5.2% from the previous year. From January to October, sales are up 7.3% to 1,602,018. “We remain on track with a new all-time high in sales in Oc...

For the fifth year in a row BMW Group was rated as the world’s most sustainable automobile manufacturer in the latest evaluation of SAM Group for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. The news of the fifth straight year as leader of the Dow Jo...

In 2010 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce have sold a total of 1,461,166 vehicles, which represents a growth of 13,6% compared to the 1.286 million sold in 2009. With the second best sales result of all time, BMW Group has strengthened its position as the le...

The production version will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show

BMW head of marketing says that it has 100,000 people signed up to test drive the i3 when it goes on sale later this year. It also already has "significant numbers of deposits" on the electric car, but he refused to say exactly how many....

Profits and Revenues Down for the First Quarter of the Year

BMW held its investors' meeting earlier on May 14 where it announced finalized financial figures for 2012 and forecasted for the rest of 2013 and part of 2014.  The biggest announcement to come out of the meeting is that BMW plans to ...

It had suspected it would sell 10,000 in 2014

Early demand of 8,000 preorders for the i3 is strong enough that BMW is considering boosting production before the car even goes on sale on November 16 in Europe. Its initial production plan had been to make 10,000 i3s next year. “If dem...