BMW Sales Up 2.2%, in March, Mini Sales Down 5.1%

The BMW Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) reported year-to-date sales of 75,433 vehicles, a 3.9 percent increase over the 72,588 sold in the first quarter of 2006. The BMW Group also reported an increase of 2.2 percent in March sales, for 28,980 vehicles over the 28,352 vehicles reported in March 2006.

BMW Brand Reports Sales
Year-to-date, sales of BMW brand vehicles were up 6.7 percent, as the company reported sales of 67,360 vehicles compared to 63,103 vehicles sold in first quarter of 2006.

March sales increased 3.4 percent for a total of 25,325 vehicles compared to 24,501 reported last March.

BMW Automobile Sales
BMW’s automobile first quarter sales were up 3.5 percent, to 51,617 automobiles compared to 49,884 in the first three months of 2006. In March automobile sales declined slightly 1.2 percent, to 18,746 versus 18,966 in the same month a year ago.

BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Sales
Year-to-date, sales of BMW Sports Activity Vehicles are up 19.1 percent, to 15,743 vehicles compared to the 13,219 sold in the first three months of 2006. March sales of BMW Sports Activity Vehicles are up 18.9 percent to 6,579 vehicles over the 5,535 sold last March.

Certified Pre-Owned
The company reported sales of 7,838 BMW CPO vehicles in March 2007, down 3.7 percent. Year-to-date, CPO were down 6.2 percent, to 19,008 over the 20,262 reported in the same period in 2006.

MINI Brand
MINI Automobiles
MINI USA reported March sales of 3,655 automobiles, down 5.1 percent from the 3,851 cars sold in March 2006. Year-to-date, MINI reported sales of 8,073 automobiles, 14.9 percent less than the 9,485 cars reported in the first quarter of 2006.

BMW4me4ever - 4/3/2007 2:58:27 PM

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way to go BMW ...

IamEvilHomer - 4/4/2007 3:49:34 AM

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009 why did you not post the 14% increase for Audi?
i posted that 2 days ago

MercBasher - 4/3/2007 3:02:05 PM

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Agent 009 how come you used non-adjusted % increases for BMW and adjusted for Lexus?

Ironman273 - 4/3/2007 3:16:52 PM

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Why? Well, after all, "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"

Agent009 - 4/3/2007 3:25:18 PM

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I don't actually edit the figures. The makers report them both ways (blame the PR dept for spinning them). That is why we post the "Press Release and the Charts"

1970toyotamarc - 4/3/2007 4:54:50 PM

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The lack of a standard for this is ridiculous. And where in this country are people still not buying cars on Sundays? BMW increaased by 628 vehicles. Lexus increased by 1263 vehicles. Who had the better month? You wouldnt know it by the headlines.

BMW4me4ever - 4/3/2007 5:01:12 PM

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toyo ... actually BMW increased by 824 cars ... Both Lexus and BMW had really good months. Lexus has the LS460 which debuted only a few months ago and is going strong. BMW on the other hand is just starting to get production ramped up to full capacity on the X5 and the introduction on the 3-series conv will help. I would expect BMW to improve alot more for the month of April ... This is the beginning of the real car season ...

1970toyotamarc - 4/3/2007 6:35:36 PM

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mromar, apparently you are new to this site. 009 has no love for the Toy. And BMW4Me, I will trust your calculations. My point was to show that by not having an agreed upon indusry standard, a percentage increase that is actually minimal can show up in headlines and press releases as being higher than other mfrs increase, who calculate using adjusted figures. This is what happened in this case. Lexus reported the adjusted number, making their percent increase look smaller than it actually was. Lexus actually increased at a higher rate than BMW in March. As 009 has often pointed out, data can be endlessly manipulated. But raw numbers do speak for themselves sometimes.

Terminal10 - 4/3/2007 4:16:03 PM

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Good job on the BMW side. What's going on with the mini brand?

S4cabriofoxone - 4/3/2007 5:22:39 PM

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New Mini just came out; not at all the dealers yet.

AdmiralT20 - 4/3/2007 4:19:15 PM

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Interesting note guys:
Lexus March 2007 Unit Sales=28,855
BMW March 2007 Unit Sales=28,980 (BMW brand-25,325)
Audi March 2007 Unit Sales=8,020
MB March 2007 Unit Sales=21,612

Lexus Feb 2007 Unit Sales= 22,518
BMW Feb 2007 Unit Sales=24,642( BMW Brand-22,274)
Audi Feb 2007 Unit Sales=6,609
MB Feb 2007 Unit Sales=17,304

Lexus Jan 2007 Unit Sales=22,118
BMW Jan 2007 Unit Sales=21,811(BMW Brand-19,761)
Audi Jan 2007 Unit Sales=6,399
MB Jan 2007 Unit Sales=17,069

chewy - 4/3/2007 4:32:17 PM

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Car sales have gone up as the weather has gotten warmer?

montyz81 - 4/3/2007 4:58:35 PM

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I wanna know total 3 Series sales vs total G35 sales. I am curious how close Infiniti is to BMW in that class.

BMW4me4ever - 4/3/2007 5:01:56 PM

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monty ... BMW out sold the G almost 2 to 1

no1listensanyway - 4/3/2007 9:53:40 PM

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The 3 series is good for like a 100k in the US.

chuck717 - 4/4/2007 1:36:14 PM

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Getting closer> i think the G is about 3,500 units below the 3 series now they are hot on their heels? No they were not out sold 2 to 1 as a poster led you to believe. I'm a x car dealer i get the real numbers still every month from the MFG and the G is hot! Take into cosideration their are still people in this country who don't even know what a Infiniti is and that the name BMW is gold, i would say Infiniti is holding its own very well.

M53R - 4/4/2007 1:50:21 PM

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good job BMW!

BMW4me4ever - 4/5/2007 3:54:54 PM

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chuck .. I work for BMW and BMW sold around 11k cars for the month of March in the 3-series ... Just wait the 335xi sedan will be here this month. That will be a car ...