BMW Sales Up 2.2%, in March, Mini Sales Down 5.1%

[Andrew 30]

The BMW Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) reported year-to-date sales of 75,433 vehicles, a 3.9 percent increase over the 72,588 sold in the first quarter of 2006. The BMW Group also reported an increase of 2.2 percent in March sales, for 28,980 vehicles over the 28,352 vehicles reported in March 2006.

BMW Brand Reports Sales

Year-to-date, sales of BMW brand vehicles were up 6.7 percent, as the company reported sales of 67,360 vehicles compared to 63,103 vehicles sold in first quarter of 2006.

March sales increased 3.4 percent for a total of 25,325 vehicles compared to 24,501 reported last March.

BMW Automobile Sales

BMW’s automobile first quarter sales were up 3.5 percent, to 51,617 automobiles compared to 49,884 in the first three months of 2006. In March automobile sales declined slightly 1.2 percent, to 18,746 versus 18,966 in the same month a year ago.

BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Sales

Year-to-date, sales of BMW Sports Activity Vehicles are up 19.1 percent, to 15,743 vehicles compared to the 13,219 sold in the first three months of 2006. March sales of BMW Sports Activity Vehicles are up 18.9 percent to 6,579 vehicles over the 5,535 sold last March.

Certified Pre-Owned

The company reported sales of 7,838 BMW CPO vehicles in March 2007, down 3.7 percent. Year-to-date, CPO were down 6.2 percent, to 19,008 over the 20,262 reported in the same period in 2006.

MINI Brand

MINI Automobiles

MINI USA reported March sales of 3,655 automobiles, down 5.1 percent from the 3,851 cars sold in March 2006. Year-to-date, MINI reported sales of 8,073 automobiles, 14.9 percent less than the 9,485 cars reported in the first quarter of 2006.