BMW Group records best sales ever in July

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Sales increase by 7.6% to 163,959 vehicles
Year-to-date deliveries rise 7.0% totalling 1,184,170
Over one million BMW brand vehicles sold in first seven months

Sales of BMW Group vehicles achieved a new high for the month of
July with a total of 163,959 vehicles delivered worldwide, an
increase of 7.6% over the same month last year (prev. yr. 152,351).
Global sales for the year-to-date are also the best ever with
1,184,170 vehicles delivered to customers in the first seven months
of the year (prev. yr. 1,106,852 / +7.0%)

"We are pleased to see the excellent sales results of the first
half-year continuing into July," said Ian Robertson, Member of the
Board of Management BMW AG, Sales and Marketing BMW. "Our focus is on
ensuring our sales remain balanced worldwide and we are confident
that our strong vehicle line-up will enable us to achieve this. The
success of our new vehicles such as the BMW X4, which went on sale in
July, demonstrates that we are providing our customers with what they
want." Summing up the global sales situation and looking ahead to the
rest of 2014, Robertson added, "We are confident that our positive
sales momentum will continue, ensuring we will sell more than two
million cars this year with a clear focus on profitable growth."

Global sales of BMW brand vehicles rose 8.4% to 139,399 units in
July (prev. yr. 128,596), bringing the year-to-date total to
1,025,747 - it's the first time the brand has sold over a million
vehicles this early in the year (prev. yr. 932,823 / +10.0%). Many
model segments show steady rates of growth. Deliveries of the top-
selling BMW 3 Series rose to 271,720 in the year-to-date (prev. yr.
255,745 / +6.2%) and the newly introduced BMW 4 Series posted sales
of 57,524 units in the same period. Sales of the BMW 5 Series rose by
7.4% in the first seven months of the year, with a total of 223,587
cars delivered (prev. yr. 208,093). Sales of the X family continue to
grow: July saw the first customer deliveries of the all- new BMW X4
and a total of 1,296 were sold in its first month with customer
demand for the vehicle high. The spectacular growth in sales of the
BMW X5 continues with sales in the year-to-date climbing 31.4% to
79,537 (prev. yr. 60,544).

One year after the international premiere of the all-electric BMW
i3, sales of the megacity vehicle rose to 6,620 in the year-to-date.

MINI sales figures are above last year's level, making it the
brand's best July ever. A total of 24,259 vehicles were delivered to