MINI USA Sales up 21% for January
MINI USA continued it’s assault on sales charts in January by selling 3,334 automobiles in January, an increase of 21.2 percent from the 2,751 sold in January 2011. Full model break-down after the jump.
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<p>The year-to-date number are exactly the same as the month-over-month numbers. Looks like BMW had a cut-and-paste error?</p>
<p>Year to date 2012 = January 2012 only at this point, so the chart is accurate.</p>
<p>D’oh! </p>
<p>I wonder why they don’t use year over year instead of year-to-date? Seems like that would be a more meaningful number than year to date especially in the early months of a year.</p>
<p>Interesting, without the Countryman, the numbers would be anemic at best.</p>
<p>Those Coupe numbers are not inspiring.</p>
<p>Both the coupe and upcoming roadster are niche vehicles, and will never be volume players.</p>
<p>so Countryman sales have come into their own and Clubman sales have tanked. AAND Convertible sales have tanked too… are people waiting for the roadster? Hmmmm….</p>
<p>I’d be willing to bet no one sells many convertibles in January. But I’d also guess that the Roadster has something to do with it, yes.</p>
<p>The Clubman jumped out at me too. But has it ever been much of a seller?</p>
<p>I like the driving dynamic of the Clubman better than the Countryman, but the utility of the Countryman better than the Clubman. I guess BMW/MINI is finding the limits of self-induced market fragmentation. Now the Roadster will eat sales from Cabrio buyers who never really use the back seat as well…</p>
<p>The Clubman is the best MINI in the second generation and quite possibly the new Coupe, too.</p>
<p>Never understood why MINI set out to re-invent the wheel with the Countryman when all they had to do was to add another rear door to the Clubman and call it a day.</p>
<p>I much prefer the looks and driving dynamic of the Clubman vs the Countryman. At least the Clubman has historical lineage to old Traveller Minis of yore, but the Countryman? SUVs?</p>
<p>The Countryman sells well so it seems (After all the bad economy appears not to have reached a certain segment of the population that can indulge into $30K+ MINIs) and has a market following. Likely to be a car developed with the American consumer in mind. But also the Countryman is the saddest and darkest chapter written since the revival of the MINI in 2001. I still see the Countryman as being nothing more than an impostor that has no lineage and nothing MINI about it except the badges. It isn’t even made in England!.</p>