From MINUSA Press:

The BMW Group (BMW and MINI brands combined) has set a sales record for the month of October. With sales of 22,685 vehicles, the company is up more than 15 percent from the 19,634 sales of October 2002, itself a record. The BMW Group also recorded year-to-date sales of 226,868, an increase of 10% percent over the 206,791 vehicles reported in the first ten months of 2002.

MINI USA reported October sales of 3,091 automobiles – an increase of 9 percent from the 2,845 cars reported in that month last year. Sales of MINI automobiles for the first nine months of 2003 totaled 28,811.