BMW is aiming to increase sales of its ‘M’ models with a host of new launches, led by the M3 CS Coupe. The UK is the largest market in the world for these performance versions.
Toyota GB, which puts the Aygo into showrooms from July 1, is urging dealers to learn from the success of BMW’s Mini by going for conquest sales and pushing extra equipment.
Sytner has opened a £19m flagship BMW facility at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The four-acre site – one of the most expensive developments in UK automotive retail history – employs 130 staff and is expected to generate £80m turnover in its first year.
BMW has this week embarked on a four-week ride and drive national roadshow to market the new 7-series to potential buyers.
BMW has added a four-cylinder derivative to the Z4 line-up and first deliveries will arrive this month in the UK.
BMW has announced that its first-quarter pre-tax profit fell 4.6%, due to a weaker result at its core automotive business.
BMW has told a German industry magazine, Autombilwoche, that it plans to raise productivity by 5% per annum.
BMW is to launch the new M3 CS Coupe, which is available to order now in the UK, priced at £43,555 on-the-road.
In the aftermath of MG Rover’s financial collapse, I was deep in conversation with a Longbridge supplier. Was his business under threat? No, because he began diversifying his customer base in 1994, when BMW bought Rover.
HR Owen has officially opened its new £7.5m purpose-built BMW and Mini dealership on the A40 in West London.
BMW has announced specifications for the new 3-series Touring range, which goes on sale on September 17.
BMW has said it would be open to talks over granting the future use of the Rover brand to other rivals after the firm called in the administrators last week.
Rolls-Royce has returned to India after the appointment of Navnit Motors as its distributor in Mumbai, which has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the prestige brand’s parent company BMW Group.
Saab is the European car industry’s Oliver Twist. While BMW and Mercedes dealers are spoiled rotten with new product, Saab’s retailers have been wondering where their next meal ticket is coming from.
Ocean Group, a three site BMW group based in Devon and Cornwall, has signed with Kerridge Automotive Systems for the supply of its dealer management system, Autoline.
Blue Bell BMW of Wilmslow has put out a request to find the very first car it sold in April 1975.
BMW Group has opened a new tool maintenance facility at its Swindon plant.
3-series styled to stay No1
BMW’s relentless growth shows no sign of slowing down: sales broke the 1m barrier for the first time in 2004. But bosses aren’t taking a breather. At Geneva, they confirmed two all-new model lines are in the pipeline.
Mini is remaining tight-lipped about its future products, but as the carmaker asks its dealers to split the brand from their BMW showrooms it assures the network it will have a long future.
