Munich. The BMW Group has achieved
its best ever first-half-year sales result with a total of 1,242,507
(+1.8%) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles delivered to customers. It
was also a record June for the company, with sales up 2.7% to total
238,920 units worldwide.
“Our strong sales performance in June means we’ve now achieved 35
consecutive quarters of growth and are confident this trend will
continue,” said Pieter Nota, Member of the Board of
Management of BMW AG responsible for Sales and Brand BMW. “With
production of the BMW X3 in China and South Africa ramping up, we will
be able to fulfil the strong customer demand for our celebrated X
models and the second half year should be increasingly positive. I’m
also delighted with the ongoing popularity of our electrified
vehicles, which achieved their best-ever month in June, keeping us
well on track to achieve over 140,000 electrified sales by the end of
the year,” Nota continued.
June deliveries of BMW i, BMW iPerformance and MINI Electric vehicles
totalled 13,806 vehicles worldwide, an increase of 47.6% on the same
month last year and the highest monthly total ever for BMW
Group electrified. Year-to-date sales of electrified BMW
and MINI vehicles totalled 60,660 (+42.5%), confirming the BMW Group’s
position as a leading global provider of premium electrified mobility.
“We can see how well customers respond in markets where
electromobility is supported by a range of measures,” commented Pieter
Nota. “For example, three quarters of the vehicles we sell in Norway
are electrified, while one in three BMW 5 Series delivered in
California is now a plug-in hybrid.” With the introduction of the
locally-built BMW 5 Series plug-in hybrid (fuel consumption combined:
2.3-2.1 l/100 km; electricity consumption combined:
14.1-13.1 kWh/100 km, CO2 emissions combined: 52-47 g/km) in China,
electrified sales in the BMW Group’s largest overall market have
increased five-fold in the first six months year-on-year, with a total
of 6,295 units sold so far in 2018. First-half-year electrified sales
increased significantly in several other major markets, including the
USA (12,015 / +51.3%) and the UK (8,823 / +41.4%).
The BMW brand sold more than 200,000 vehicles for
the first time ever in June, growing sales 4.0% in the month to total
200,610. Sales in the year-to-date are up 2.0% with 1,059,296
vehicles delivered to customers worldwide in the first half of the
year. All major sales regions contributed to this growth. A range of
models contributed to the sales increase in the year-to-date,
including the BMW 1 Series (98,396 / +7.2%), the BMW X1 (152,866 /
+11.8%) and the BMW 5 Series (191,185 / +14.9%). Thanks to its
improved availability in June, the BMW X3 achieved a 24.6% increase in
monthly sales, with a total of 17,584 units delivered.
First half-year sales at MINI achieved the same high
level as last year, with a total of 181,430 (+0.1%) vehicles delivered
to customers worldwide. MINI deliveries in June were down 3.8% (37,955).
Sales of Rolls-Royce motor cars in the first half of
2018 were up 13.1% (1,781) year‑on‑year. Demand for all Rolls‑Royce
models remains strong in most regions, including positive momentum in
China, however market conditions in the Middle East remain unsettled.
In addition to excellent sales of new Phantom, demand for Black Badge
variants of Dawn, Ghost and Wraith continues to surpass expectations.
The new Rolls-Royce Cullinan was unveiled in May to great acclaim and
already has a strong order book stretching well into next year. First
customer deliveries of the new all-terrain model are due in the first
quarter of 2019.
The process of adjusting all BMW models to the new
WLTP testing process is going to plan and the vast
majority of models have now completed the retesting cycle. In
addition, around 190 models already fulfil the Euro 6d
TEMP emissions requirements, which only become compulsory
from 1 September 2019. These models include petrol, diesel, BMW i,
BMW iPerformance and BMW M vehicles. “We’re now able to offer our
customers in Europe a broad range of models which not only have the
WLTP type-registration but also already fulfil the Euro 6d TEMP
emissions standards,” said Pieter Nota.
Deliveries of BMW Motorrad premium motorcycles and
maxi-scooters in the first half of the year were close to the
extremely high level achieved last year. In the year-to-date, a total
of 86,975 units were delivered to customers, a decrease of 1.6%
year-on-year. BMW Motorrad is significantly refreshing its model
line-up in 2018, with nine new models being introduced, and the
related adjustments in production are affecting deliveries. BMW
Motorrad continues to strive for sales growth across the full calendar year.
BMW MINI sales in the regions/markets
All three major sales regions contributed to the BMW Group’s
first-half-year increase in sales.
In Europe, the BMW Group achieved good growth in
many markets and BMW was the most popular premium brand in several
countries including the UK, Belgium and Austria.
BMW Group deliveries also increased in the Americas,
where all markets recorded growth in the first half of the year, with
BMW the leading premium brand in Mexico and several other Latin
American countries.
Sales also grew in Asia in the first six months of
the year with several important markets, including South Korea and
India, achieving double-digit growth.
*Provisional registration figures
BMW Group sales in/ytd June 2018 at a glance
*BMW i, BMW iPerformance, MINI Electric
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