German premium carmaker BMW widened its lead over arch-rival Mercedes Car Group in November as sales grew by 9.5 percent, fuelled by brisk demand for its BMW 3-Series saloon, data showed on Wednesday.
Sales of 114,044 cars last month put year-to-date deliveries above BMW's level for all of 2004 and reinforced its bragging rights over DaimlerChrysler's premium division.
"We can already predict that we will be the most successful supplier in the premium segment worldwide for 2005 as a whole," said BMW sales and marketing chief Michael Ganal. "We are growing more quickly than our relevant competitors."
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