BMW Group Ends Best Year Ever With Record Month; December Sales Up 43 Percent; Year-to-date Sales Up 20 Percent.WOODCLIFF LAKE Woodcliff Lake may refer to:
in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) ended its best year ever with the strongest sales month on record, reporting December sales of 26,252 vehicles, an increase of 43 percent over the same month last year. (BMW Group set its previous monthly sales record of 23,994 vehicles in April of this year.) The company also recorded twelve-month sales gains of 20 percent, reporting 256,622 vehicles over the 213,127 reported in the same period a year ago. BMW Brand Also Has Best Month and Year BMW of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control reported year-to-date sales of 232,032 automobiles and Sports Activity Vehicles, up 9 percent over the 213,127 vehicles sold in the same period last year. The company also reported its strongest month ever with December sales of 22,974, up 25 percent over the 18,414 in the same month in 2001. (The previous record for the BMW brand was set in April 2002 when the company reported 22,435 sales.) "This was the best year ever for 7 Series sales, as customers responded to the all-new model, which went on sale last January," said Ed Robinson, Executive Vice President - Operations for BMW of North America, LLC. "Sales of BMW models across the board were strong. In its last full year of production, we also recorded our strongest sales year ever for the popular 5 Series model." BMW Automobile Sales BMW reported sales of 189,290 compared to the 172,505 cars sold in 2001, an increase of 10 percent. The company also reported December automobile sales of 18,949, up 34 percent from the 14,114 cars sold in the same month a year ago. BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Sales Year-to-date, sales of BMW's X5 Sports Activity Vehicles were up 5 percent, to 42,742 vehicles over the 40,622 reported in 2001. For the month of December, reported sales of 4,025 BMW X A small five-cylinder radial engine for sport and training aircraft. Although this engine, the BMW X, proved successful at several large-scale events in 1930, including that year's round-Europe flight, only a few were built. A successor model, the BMW Xa, was introduced in 1931. 5 Sports Activity Vehicles, down 6 percent over the 4,300 vehicles reported last year. BMW Certified Pre-owned A Certified Pre-Owned or CPO, car is a type of used car. Most often late-model, they differ from run of the mill used cars by having been refurbished, and certified by the original dealer as being as good as new. Vehicles Sales Sales of BMW CPO (Chief Privacy Officer) An individual who manages the privacy issues within an organization. Arising out of the privacy regulations in finance and health care in the late 1990s, the CPO position eventually crossed over to all industries. vehicles set records, too, as the company reported 60,610 vehicles in 2002, an increase of 52 percent above the 39,853 vehicles sold last year. For December, CPO sales were up 32 percent to 5,289 compared to 4,004 sold in the same month in 2001.
MINI Brand
MINI Automobiles
In just over nine months, MINI sales in the U.S. exceeded forecasted figures for the first twelve months of sales. Year-to-date, the company reported sales of 13,903 MINI Coopers and 10,687 MINI Cooper S' for combined sales of 24,590. The company reported sales of 1,703 MINI Coopers and 1,575 MINI Cooper S' during the month of December for a total of 3,278 cars sold. The MINI brand has been on sale in the U.S. since March 22. BMW GROUP IN AMERICA BMW of North America has been present in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. 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 South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. manufacturing operation; DESIGNWORKS/USA, an industrial design firm in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). ; 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 motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900. retailers and 69 MINI car dealers. BMW US Holding Corp., the Group's headquarters for North, Central and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey Woodcliff Lake is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 5,745. Woodcliff Lake is also the name of the reservoir that lies primarily within the town--a small part of it lies in neighboring . Information about BMW Group products is available to consumers via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://www.bmwusa.com/, http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/ and http://www.miniusa.com/.
BMW Car Sales Report for December 2002
2002 2001
December 18949 14114
Year-to-Date 189290 172505
Year-to- Year-to-
December Date December Date
2002 2002 2001 2001
323i (E46) 0 0 0 102
325i (E46) 3834 39585 3146 39220
325Ci (E46) 745 8201 981 9207
325Ci convertible (E46) 740 9245 766 9466
325i sport wagon (E46) 258 1434 109 3171
325xi 1452 12427 731 1824
325xi sport wagon 226 1902 169 327
330i 1263 11479 1067 17095
330Ci 799 7533 533 8349
330Ci convertible 676 8440 691 7841
330xi 728 5674 327 730
M3 (E46) 579 5625 620 3826
M3 convertible (E46) 321 3883 260 1991
M3 convertible (E36) 0 0 0 78
3 Series 11621 115428 9400 103227
Z3 2.5 (US) 93 3681 395 8201
Z3 3.0 roadster (US) 17 2090 98 4720
Z3 3.0 coupe (US) 7 243 11 629
Z4 2.5i roadster (US) 1033 2204 0 0
Z4 3.0i roadster (US) 656 1500 0 0
M roadster (US) 10 479 71 985
M coupe (US) 8 293 25 379
Z3 and Z4 Series 1824 10490 600 14914
525i 1260 13349 1207 12855
525i sport wagon 226 1696 136 2216
528i 0 0 0 0
528i sport wagon 0 0 0 0
530i 1610 19057 1795 16564
540i sport wagon 61 370 31 406
540i 412 4704 432 5606
540i(E39) 0 0 0 0
M5 130 1666 379 2358
5 Series 3699 40842 3980 40005
740i 1 31 15 4491
740iL 0 40 14 8589
740iL Protection 0 0 0 8
745i 529 11512 0 0
750iL 1 16 3 289
750iL Protection 0 0 0 12
745Li 1245 10407 0 0
760Li 0 0 0 0
7 Series 1776 22006 32 13389
Z8 29 524 102 970
Z8 Series 29 524 102 970
BMW Sports Activity Vehicle (light trucks) Sales Report for December 2002
2002 2001
December 4025 4300
Year-to-Date 42742 40622
Year-to- Year-to-
December Date December Date
2002 2002 2001 2001
X5 3.0i (US) 2940 32131 3469 27041
X5 4.4i (US) 969 9235 691 13261
X5 4.6is (US) 116 1376 140 320
Total 4025 42742 4300 40622
MINI Sales Report for December 2002
2002
December 3278
Year-to-Date 24590
December Year-to-Date
2002 2002
MINI Cooper 1703 13903
MINI Cooper S 1575 10687
Total 3278 24590
CONTACT: Martha McKinley, Business Communications Manager of BMW of North America, LLC, +1-201-307-3786 Web site: http://www.bmwusa.com/ |
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