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Land Rover Announces Record August Sales

2 September 1999

Land Rover Announces Record August Sales

    LANHAM, Md., Sept. 1 -- Howard I. Mosher, president, Land
Rover North America, Inc., announced today record August sales of 2,518 units,
the best August sales results in company history.

                                          SALES SUMMARY
                             Aug '99      Aug '98     Y-T-D '99   Y-T-D '98
    Range Rover                722           431        4,529        4,275
    Discovery                 1796         1,284       13,686        9,151
    Defender                     0             1            0          111

    Total                 2,518 (+46.7%)   1,716    18,215 (+34.6%) 13,537

    NOTE:  Range Rover sales include 4.6 HSE and 4.0 SE; Discovery sales
include Discovery and Discovery Series II.
    Land Rover North America, Inc., established in 1986, imports Range Rovers
and Discoverys manufactured in Solihull, England, for sale in the U.S. and is
a wholly owned subsidiary of The BMW Group, Munich, Germany.