How about comparison with Lexus? Or Infiniti?


George Litwinski
"Ramone Cila" > wrote in message
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> In it's last year the 3 series is down about 4% year to date. In terms of
> market performance...what a product! The A4 is down 10% year to date and
the
> C Class is down 3% but selling far fewer units that the E46.
>
> The 5 is doing great and appears be the second best 5 series year (2003
E39
> being the best) ever, and despite having two full months to go is already
> better than the first full year of E39 sales. The E-Class still outsells
> everybody in this segment in the US. They are down for the month but up
for
> the year. The A6 is way off track and down 20% year to date.
>
> 7 sales are down 19% for YTD but so is the market. Merc S Class sales are
> down 37% for the month and 12% for the year. By comparison Audi sells very
> few A8's..but their numbers are up about 68% 2004 vs. 2003.
>
> Z4's are off 2003 numbers by 23%, But so is everyone else's roadster
> numbers. There may be too much competition for the market levels. By
> comparison Boxster numbers are off by 37% for 2004 vs. 2003. TT's off 31%,
> SLK's off 17%.
>
> Production must have ramped up for the 6 because like the 5 those sales
> numbers are growing.
>
> 2004 X5/X3 combo has outdone the 2003 X5 numbers by 23,000+ year to date.
> And given the sales figures for the sedans it sure doesn't seem like many
of
> those buyers were cannibalized from the 3 and 5 series cars. No one else
> comes close to BMW in success with an SUV, but Porsche is selling the
living
> crap out of the Cayenne.
>
> If my math is worth a **** BMW is having their best year ever and
outselling
> Merc in the US. Despite all the commotion over design and i-drive BMW is
> doing great. And where BMW is suffering unit sales losses in certain
> segments, so are their competitors, which seems to indicate it is the
> market, rather than anyone's particular offering, that is dictating the
> those reduced sales.
>
> Despite bad press about design and almost constant criticism in forums
like
> this, BMW can only be happy about their performance this year and
> particularly ecstatic about their performance compared to competitors in
> various market segments that are suffering across the board.
>
> Unlike some of the posters on this ng, I am really happy to see BMW
selling
> cars and pumping money.
>
> http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...008/bmw/1.html
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> http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...porsche/1.html
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> http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...ercedes/1.html
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> http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...06/Audi/1.html
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> http://www.e60.net/information/ click "US Unit Sales"
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