In October of 2013 BMW’s Motorrad division reached a milestone worthy of the company’s 90th year: more than 100,000 motorcycles and maxi-scooters sold in...
Official Release: The BMW Group continued its successful course in September with another record month in sales. With 189,675 (prev. yr. 177,726) BMW, MINI...
Right on the heals of very impressive sales numbers for the US market, worldwide numbers came out today and BMW Motorrad sales are up. Way up. Sales just for July were up +10.9%, and year-to-date sales were up nearly as much at +9.9%. This amidst an otherwise stagnant powersports industry.
Big month for BMW as it gears up for its now annual show-down with Mercedes in the US sales race. Notes of interest: The 1 Series is up a staggering 60% this month over last year. Also showing well are the 3 Series and Z4. Interestingly the X1 (classified not as a light truck mind you) is outselling the X3 and isn't far off the X5. Interesting considering that BMWNA had thought about not bringing it to the US market. Not surprising to us. In our recent time with the crossover we were blown away by the value prop and overall performance.
Now, onto the numbers...
Today, the BMW Welt in Munich welcomed its 100,000th vehicle-collection customer today, Thursday. Helmut Marxen, a businessman from Sylt, actually took delivery of two cars: a BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo Sportline and a BMW X3.
BMW is looking to the Internet and even house calls by BMW sales personnel to boost future turnover, the head of the group's German sales told told the weekly Wirtschaftswoche magazine.
