BMW’s record sales figures continue
10/04/2013
The company also achieved a new high for the first three months: Retail volumes for the year to the end of March increased by 5.3% to 448,200 units.
All of which is good news for tanners supplying the automotive industry.
Board member Ian Robertson said: “Sales of the BMW 3 Series contributed strongly to the growth and we will soon be expanding our highly successful 3 Series range with the BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo. All in all, we are aiming for further growth in BMW Group worldwide sales in 2013.”
BMW brand vehicles achieved a record 159,195 vehicles in March, up 4% from the year before. Sales for the year the first quarter were also a record: 381,404, an increase of 7%.
However, the number of Rolls-Royce cars delivered in the first quarter was down 16.6%. The company said this was within its “planning cycle”, as the manufacturing plant underwent rebalancing and preparations for the start of production of the new Rolls-Royce Wraith.
In terms of markets, the group delivered a record 78,957 vehicles in the US in the first quarter, an increase of 4.3%, and 86,070 vehicles were delivered in Mainland China, an increase of 7.6%. Japan (+7.2%), South Korea (+16.9%) and the Middle East (+27.7%) also saw growth.
In the company’s home market of Germany, group sales were down 3.8%, and in Europe as a whole, up 3.1%.
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