January 2011 sales report numbers indicate that all three of the German luxury brands saw a significant increase in the total of units sold in the United States. Compared to same period of time in 2010, BMW sales increased 20 … Continue reading

Press Release: The BMW Group started the new year well, with strong sales growth of 28%. A total of 105,177 BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce brand automobiles were delivered to customers worldwide in January (prev. yr. 82,150). Ian Robertson, member of … Continue reading

BMW Financial Officer Frederick Eichiner told german website Focus.de that the BMW Vehicle Mega City will receive an optional range extender that can be ordered with the electric vehicle. The range extender refers to a small internal combustion engine which … Continue reading

BMW Group DesignworksUSA has collaborated with Intermarine, Brazil’s leading shipyard for luxury yachts, to create the elegant, powerful and refined Intermarine 55. Setting sail in July 2011, the Intermarine 55 is the first in a new era yachts for Intermarine, … Continue reading

BMW returned after ten years to the Super Bowl “ad game” and based on initial consumer reactions, the impact was quite positive. While the first ad featured, as expected, the new BMW X3, the second 30 seconds commercial focused on … Continue reading

In just a few hours, the first BMW ad in 10 years for the Super Bowl event will go live on television around the world. While the company has been tight-liped about the ad content, the Spartanburg-area newspaper Go Upstate … Continue reading

We usually report the monthly BMW sales numbers at the U.S. and global level, but with a 40 percent sales increase in January 2011, BMW Group UK came up on our radar. The BMW Group in the UK (BMW and … Continue reading

Wind River and automotive component manufacturer Magneti Marelli announced they’re collaborating on the first in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solution based on the open source Genivi Alliance spec. Based on Linux (and MeeGo, most likely), the system will first be brought to … Continue reading

Wards Auto, quoted by Autoblog, states that in 2010, approximately 65 percent of vehicles built for the U.S. market were powered by four-cylinder engines. As a direct consequence to the soaring gas prices in 2008, followed by one of the … Continue reading