BMW Group Sets October Sales Record With 15% Sales Increase
Year-To-Date Sales Up 9.7 Percent
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Nov. 3 -- The BMW Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) has set a sales record for the month of October. With sales of 22,685 vehicles the company is up more than 15 percent from the 19,634 sales of October 2002, itself a record. The BMW Group also recorded year-to-date sales of 226,868, an increase of 10% percent over the 206,791 vehicles reported in the first ten months of 2002.
BMW Brand
BMW reported sales of 19,594 vehicles in October, up 17 percent from October 2002 sales of 16,789. All current model series showed sales increases for the month of October. BMW also reported year-to-date sales of 198,057, up 5 percent from the 188,185 of this time last year.
BMW Automobile Sales
BMW's automobile sales were up 17 percent in October with 15,683 cars reported versus 13,368 in the same month a year ago. Year-to-date, BMW automobile sales increased 8.1 percent to 166,099 compared to 153,629 for the first ten months of 2002. October was also the first full month of sales for the new BMW 5 Series.
BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Sales
BMW reported a 14 percent increase in Sports Activity Vehicle sales for the month of October. 3,991 vehicles were sold compared to 3,421 in October 2002.
Year-to-date SAV sales are recovering, off by 7 percent in the ten months of 2003 compared to a 10 percent deficit in the year to September. (Sales of 31,958 to October 2003 compared with 34,556 in the first ten months of 2002).
Certified Pre-owned Vehicle Sales
BMW reported year-to-date sales of 55,436 Certified Pre-owned vehicles, up 11 percent over the 50,075 reported in the first ten months of 2002. CPO vehicle sales were down 3 percent in October with 5,099 vehicles sold versus 5,236 in the same period one year ago.
MINI Brand MINI Automobiles
MINI USA reported October sales of 3,091 automobiles - an increase of 9 percent from the 2,845 cars reported in that month last year. Sales of MINI automobiles for the first nine months of 2003 totaled 28,811.
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 and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars; DesignworksUSA, an industrial design firm in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Corp. in South Carolina is part of BMW Group's global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all Z4 roadster and X5 Sports Activity Vehicles. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 340 BMW car, 327 BMW Sports Activity Vehicle, 148 BMW Motorcycle retailers, and 73 MINI dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group's sales 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:
www.bmwusa.com
www.bmwmotorradusa.com
www.miniusa.com
www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com
BMW Car Sales Report for October 2003
2003 2002
October 15683 13368
Year-to-Date 166099 153629
Year Year
-to- -to-
October Date October Date
2003 2003 2002 2002
325i (E46) 3997 36874 2635 31948
325Ci (E46) 433 6470 477 6853
325Ci convertible (E46) 453 6248 478 7747
325i sport wagon (E46) 123 1707 122 1012
325xi 770 9978 1025 9881
325xi sport wagon 130 1624 130 1513
330i 754 7724 733 9338
330Ci 328 5219 526 6173
330Ci convertible 500 6096 482 7019
330xi 513 4949 481 4374
M3 (E46) 347 3820 355 4362
M3 convertible (E46) 215 2903 208 3155
3 Series 8563 93612 7652 93375
Z3 2.5 roadster (US) 0 105 137 3456
Z3 3.0 roadster (US) 1 22 48 2046
Z3 3.0 coupe (US) 0 5 22 218
Z4 2.5i roadster (US) 1169 9899 380 380
Z4 3.0i roadster (US) 791 6637 354 354
M roadster (US) 1 14 3 465
M coupe (US) 0 2 3 277
Z3 and Z4 Series 1962 16684 947 7196
525i 55 14028 827 11214
525i sport wagon 15 1144 150 1295
525 (E60) 454 454 0 0
530i 24 14742 1230 16169
530i (E60) 2154 2970 0 0
540i sport wagon 5 258 22 273
540i 3 3625 327 3933
545 (E60) 232 232 0 0
M5 42 1398 123 1371
5 Series 2984 38851 2679 34255
740i 0 0 1 29
740iL 0 0 1 39
740iL Protection 0 0 0 0
745i 746 5390 526 10479
745Li 1363 10598 1524 7786
750iL 0 0 0 15
750iL Protection 0 0 0 0
760Li 42 573 0 0
7 Series 2151 16561 2052 18348
Z8 1 172 38 455
Z8 Alpina 22 219 0 0
Z8 Series 23 391 38 455
BMW Sports Activity Vehicle (light trucks)
Sales Report for October 2003
2003 2002
October 3911 3421
Year-to-Date 31958 34556
Year Year
-to- -to-
October Date October Date
2003 2003 2002 2002
X5 3.0i (US) 2794 23734 2540 26257
X5 4.4i (US) 1053 7172 691 7204
X5 4.6is (US) 64 1052 190 1095
Total 3911 31958 3421 34556
MINI Sales Report for October 2003
2003 2002
October 3091 2845
Year-to-Date 28811 18606
Year Year
-to- -to-
October Date October Date
2003 2003 2002 2002
MINI Cooper 1560 16062 1533 10888
MINI Cooper S 1531 12749 1312 7718
Total 3091 28811 2845 18606
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