Car industry BMW sells more cars for the first time in a year and a half
BMW has halted its downward slide in sales: In the third quarter, the Group delivered 588,300 cars to its customers. This was 8.8 percent more than a year ago, as the Munich-based company announced on Tuesday.
07.10.2025, 17:24
SDA
After five consecutive declines, this is the first increase in a year and a half. In addition to the core brand, which grew by 5.7 percent to 514,600 cars, the figures also include the subsidiary Mini, which increased by a good third to 72,400 cars, and Rolls-Royce, which reported an increase of 13 percent to 1304 cars.
In these calculations, however, BMW benefits retrospectively from a serious problem a year ago. In the third quarter of 2024, the Group suffered a massive drop in sales of 13 percent. One of the reasons for this was that there were problems with the brakes from supplier Continental, which caused deliveries to be suspended.
As a result, the comparative figures from the previous year are distorted downwards. Two years ago, in the third quarter of 2023, BMW reported sales of 621,700 cars, which was higher than the current figure.
BMW is now also up for the year as a whole, as Head of Sales Jochen Goller emphasizes. "The strong sales growth in Europe and America as well as for the Mini brand is particularly pleasing."
Strong growth in the USA
Despite the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, the Group sold 104,200 BMW and Mini brand cars in the USA - a whopping 24 percent more than in the same period last year.
Things also went well for BMW in Germany and Europe. In its home market, the Munich-based company achieved an increase of 12 percent to just under 73,000 BMW and Mini cars. In Europe as a whole, 239,600 cars were sold - a good 9 percent more than a year ago.
Things look worse in China: With sales of 147,100 there, BMW is 0.4 percent below the figure for the same quarter last year. This is all the more dramatic when you consider that the slump in the same quarter of the previous year hit China with a drop of almost 30 percent.
Electrical stagnates
The development in the electric car sector was also weak. Here, sales fell by 0.6 percent to 102,900. The launch of the New Class, which will not be delivered until next year, could play a role here. Customers may be waiting for the significantly more advanced vehicles.
