BMW Group October sales achieve new high (FOTO)

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Global sales increase 11.1% with 184,297 deliveries worldwide
Year-to-date deliveries up 7.0% to 1,714,197 vehicles
Almost 13,000 BMW i vehicles sold in first ten months

Demand for BMW Group vehicles increased in October with global
sales for the month higher than ever before. A total of 184,297 BMW,
MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles were delivered worldwide (prev. yr.
165,854 / +11.1%). In the first ten months of the year, BMW Group
sales rose 7.0%, totalling 1,714,197 vehicles (prev. yr. 1,602,020).

Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG
responsible for Sales and Marketing BMW said, "We are seeing good
sales development across the model range and all sales regions have
recorded positive growth in October. This record month means we are
well on track to achieve our target of selling more than two million
vehicles by the end of the year."

Sales of BMW brand vehicles climbed 10.8% to total 155,120
vehicles in October, a new high for the month (prev. yr. 140,060).
The brand also achieved a new record for the first ten months of the
year with 1,474,632 vehicles delivered to customers, an increase of
9.3% on the same period last year (1,349,644).

The BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, which only went on sale at the end
of September, has been delivered to a total of 3,011 customers. Sales
of the BMW 3 Series continue to grow, increasing 3.4% in the
year-to-date (391,449 / prev. yr. 378,440). The recently introduced
BMW 4 Series vehicles have been delivered to 92,760 customers
worldwide so far this year and the BMW X4 has achieved sales
totalling 11,416 since it came onto the market in July. Sales of the
BMW 5 Series show steady growth, up 2.8% compared to the first ten
months of last year (309,563 / prev. yr. 301,180). Deliveries of the
extremely popular BMW X5 continue to show very strong growth, up
37.9% in the year-to-date (117,418 / prev. yr. 85,150).

Sales of BMW i vehicles continued to grow in October. The month
saw 1,985 BMW i3s delivered worldwide, taking the year-to-date total
to 12,184. A total of 419 BMW i8s were handed over to customers in
October (year-to-date: 760). That brings the total of BMW i vehicles
sold this year to just under 13,000.

MINI brand achieved its best October sales ever. A total of 28,834
vehicles were delivered to customers worldwide, an increase of 13.4%
compared to the same month last year (25,420). Sales of the all-new