BMW sells record 1.8mn vehicles in 2012

The BMW company logo is displayed in a showroom in London. German top-of-the-range carmaker BMW sold a record 1.8mn vehicles in 2012, chief financial officer Friedrich Eichiner said in a newspaper interview yesterday. “One of our goals for 2012 was to increase unit sales and achieve a new deliveries record. With 1.8mn vehicles, we’ve done that,” Eichiner told the Die Welt daily. Earlier this month, Eichiner had said that BMW was “on target” for reaching a new sales record following buoyant sales in November. In November, BMW’s worldwide sales rose by about 20% to more than 170,000 vehicles. In the 11 months to November, vehicle sales so far this year reached about 1.66mn, an increase of some 10% compared with the same period last year. The carmaker’s aim was to lift sales again next year, Eichiner told Die Welt.