BMW Group Reports Strong Year-to-Date Sales
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Aug. 1 -- The BMW Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) sustained impressive sales increases this month, reporting the strongest first seven months ever in the U.S. with 146,430 vehicles, a 16 percent increase over the same period a year ago. The BMW Group also recorded July sales of 21,955 vehicles, up 15 percent over the 19,046 reported a year ago.
BMW Brand
BMW of North America, LLC reported year-to-date sales of 136,825 automobiles and Sports Activity Vehicles, up 8 percent over the 126,303 vehicles sold in the first seven months of 2001. The company also reported July sales of 19,089, up 0.2 percent over the 19,046 in the same month in 2001.
BMW Automobile Sales
Year-to-date, automobile sales are up 7 percent. BMW reported sales of 111,817 compared to the 104,438 cars sold through July 2001. BMW also reported July automobile sales of 15,779, down 0.5 percent from the 15,864 cars sold in the same month a year ago.
BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Sales
BMW also reported July sales of 3,310 X5 Sports Activity Vehicles, an increase of 4 percent over the 3,182 vehicles reported last year. Year-to- date, SAV sales were up 14 percent, to 25,008 vehicles compared to the 21,865 reported last year.
BMW Certified Pre-owned Vehicles Sales
Sales of BMW's Certified Pre-owned vehicles skyrocketed, with a 54 percent increase in year-to-date sales of 34,631 compared to 22,442 a year ago. July sales were up 77 percent, with 5,654 vehicles sold compared to 3,204 a year ago.
MINI Brand
MINI Automobiles
The company reported sales of 1,388 MINI Coopers and 1,478 MINI Cooper S' in July for a total of 2,866. Year-to-date, the company reported sales of 6,378 MINI Coopers and 3,227 MINI Cooper S' for combined sales of 9,605. The MINI brand returned to the U.S. for the first time in 35 years when MINI automobiles went on sale March 22.
BMW GROUP IN AMERICA
BMW of North America has been present in the United States since 1975. Since then, the BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales and financial service organizations for the BMW and MINI brands; a South Carolina manufacturing operation; DESIGNWORKS/USA, an industrial design firm in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. The BMW Group is represented in the U.S. through networks of 340 BMW car, 327 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle, 148 BMW motorcycle retailers and 64 MINI car dealers. BMW US Holding Corp., the Group's headquarters for North, Central and South America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the
Internet at http://www.bmwusa.com, http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com and
http://www.miniusa.com.
BMW Car Sales Report for July 2002
2002 2001
July 15779 15864
Year-to-Date 111817 104438
Year-to- Year-to-
July Date July Date
2002 2002 2001 2001
323i (E46) 0 0 0 102
325i (E46) 2795 22891 4021 24556
325Ci (E46) 705 5070 629 5486
325Ci convertible (E46) 749 5693 819 5348
325i sport wagon (E46) 184 673 333 2283
325xi 1112 6596 0 0
325xi sport wagon 111 1108 0 0
330i 836 6958 1567 11506
330Ci 630 4519 823 5286
330Ci convertible 729 5226 583 5024
330xi 539 3090 0 0
M3 (E46) 501 3330 168 1729
M3 convertible (E46) 389 2413 284 944
3 Series 9280 67567 9227 62264
Z3 2.5 (US) 438 2872 641 5521
Z3 3.0 roadster (US) 296 1477 374 3233
Z3 3.0 coupe (US) 22 134 46 374
M roadster (US) 26 447 95 295
M coupe (US) 34 240 38 116
Z3 Series 816 5170 1194 9539
525i 1139 8216 1563 7536
525i sport wagon 180 912 194 1340
528i 0 0 0 0
528i sport wagon 0 0 0 0
530i 1687 12236 1802 9563
540i sport wagon 29 211 31 226
540i 369 3242 429 3067
540i(E39) 0 0 0 0
M5 146 1102 120 1227
5 Series 3550 25889 4139 22959
740i 2 29 321 3473
740iL -1 34 870 5424
740iL Protection 0 0 0 6
745i 803 8801 0 0
750iL 3 12 20 180
750iL Protection 0 0 2 8
745Li 1287 3961 0 0
760Li 0 0 0 0
7 Series 2094 12837 1213 9091
Z8 39 354 91 585
Z8 Series 39 354 91 585
BMW Sports Activity Vehicle (light trucks) Sales Report for July 2002
2002 2001
July 3310 3182
Year-to-Date 25008 21865
Year-to- Year-to-
July Date July Date
2002 2002 2001 2001
X5 3.0i (US) 2403 18934 2011 13537
X5 4.4i (US) 744 5376 1171 8328
X5 4.6is (US) 163 698 0 0
Total 3310 25008 3182 21865
MINI Sales Report for July 2002
2002
July 2866
Year-to-Date 9605
July Year-to-Date
2002 2002
MINI Cooper 1388 6378
MINI Cooper S 1478 3227
Total 2866 9605