MINI USA Sales Up 22% for 2005

GMINI Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

and Car Talk declared these cars bad in snow. Sales must have been exclusively in the South….http://www.nemini.org/Forums/viewtopic/t=3310.html

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c ct1 Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

It’s amazing what gas prices can do….

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Aaron Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

If sales are up 22%, does that mean that production is up 22% as well? I don’t know about you guys, but I haven’t seen any indications of excess production capacity at any time in the MINI’s lifecycle.

Where are these additional sales coming from, unless they are just extending lead times on orders and booking future sales?

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MINI VANILLI Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

my thoughts too. where are they getting all these extra cars from without increased production????

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Greg W Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

If USA is getting more cars then some countries are getting less. The sales success of MINI in USA is exemplary. Not since the Beatles hit town has a british icon performed so well.

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Ian Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

(sales figures breakdown)

What surprises me is the low number of MINI Cooper sales these last two months – about half the average level for the non-S …

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David Bunting Nov 2nd, 2005 Link

Interesting: the 22% increase is mostly due to a large increas in production earlier in the year, but if you look at October ‘05 and compare it to October ‘04, production/sales were actually DOWN 5% compared to a year ago.

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DCJeff Nov 3rd, 2005 Link

if you look at October ‘05 and compare it to October ‘04, production/sales were actually DOWN 5% compared to a year ago.

Not quite. Ian appears to have entered the total for September in place of the total for October. The actual total for October 2005 is 3,203, which is slightly higher than Oct. 2004’s 3,189.

Gabe’s headline is a little misleading since the 22% sales increase was not in October, but year to date. October’s increase is very small.

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