Daimler sold for the first time, more than BMW – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The new BMW X1 has sold very well this year.

BMW needs to let the competitors Daimler in this year. The success-drenched white-and-blue mark increased the sales up to November, is not expected to catch up with the rivals from Stuttgart this year. Since the beginning of the year, the BMW brand delivered worldwide to 1.82 million vehicles, 5.6 percent more than a year earlier, the Munich said on Monday. Mercedes-Benz struck in the same period, almost 70,000 vehicles more, and thus controls further towards his goal, BMW after eleven years as the biggest premium manufacturer replace. In addition to numerous new models, has brought Daimler in the past few years on the market, the current weakness of BMW in the United States a reason for the changing of the guard at the Premium top. Mercedes has caught up in China in recent years.

While Mercedes-Benz was able to increase sales in America in November, let BMW there, strong springs. Sales fell to 18.2 percent. The Munich-based luxury-class manufacturer suffers in comparison to its rivals, more of the weakness of the market in the United States. The reason is, according to BMW, the strong-selling 5 series will be renewed in February. A new edition of the demand of the outlet can be models to in the rule. In Europe and Asia, BMW has increased, however. “Since November 2011, we have increased our sales in each month – that’s five years of continuous sales growth is in line with the expansion of our model range,” said BMW Board member for sales Ian Robertson.

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The Munich-based mainly benefited from the high demand for all-terrain vehicles. The renewed X1 rose in November by almost 75 percent, from the larger X5, BMW sold is 17.6 percent more than the prior year period. A total of just under 580,000 X to be in the first eleven months-to be rolled out vehicles to customers, a good 22 per cent more than in the same period of the previous year. Also, the sales of the luxury sedan 7-series grew significantly.

The VW subsidiary Audi was ranked number three among the premium manufacturers: The brand with the four rings increased its deliveries in November by 4.3 percent to around 154,000 dialysis vehicles. In the first eleven months, 1.7 million cars were sold to customers, an increase of 4.2 percent. In the case of the Ingolstädtern from the fight to the upper class crown is listening to currently anyway – they fight like their parent company VW with the consequences of the diesel scandal.