Global MINI Sales Down 21% Due to Model Change Over
Global MINI sales are down 20.9% for 2024, with 166,703 vehicles sold. The official reason BMW has given is that the brand has updated its entire portfolio, but as always, there’s a...
MINI USA Sales Down in Q3 as New Models Finally Begin Arriving at Dealers
MINI USA sales were down 33% from the previous year, despite the introduction of all-new models. However, this decrease likely reflects less on the cars themselves and more on availability issues and...
BMW is Training AI Powered Humanoid Robots To Build Cars
Robots have been building cars for years. But until now they’ve been relatively simple machines doing simple, repetitive tasks. BMW is now testing something much more futuristic and transformative; AI powered humanoid...
Global MINI Sales Down 18.7% for the Year
Not unlike MINI USA sales we reported last week, MINI’s global sales are also down substantially for the year. And like the US market, the MINI’s stores are seeing lower sales primarily...
MINI USA Sales Down Sharply Due to Massive Model Change Over
You can’t sell cars if you don’t have them. That’s what a lot of MINI’s US dealers saw in Q2 as the highly anticipated model change over to the new generation of...
Global MINI Sales Down in Q1 2024 Ahead of Full Brand Refresh
Global MINI sales unsurprisingly declined in the first quarter of 2024. With inventory tight and an all new model range soon to arrive at dealers, sales shrank by 9.4% compared to the...
MINIUSA sales Down Early in 2024 Due to Model Changeover
MINI sales in the U.S. totaled 6,369 vehicles in the first quarter of 2024, a decrease of 12.6% vs the 7,284 vehicles sold in the first quarter of 2023. According to MINIUSA...
The New F66 MINI Cooper Begins Production a the Oxford Plant
Today marks the beginning of a new era for MINI as they kick off production for their latest fifth generation (F66) MINI Cooper at the MINI headquarters, Plant Oxford. The last ever...
The Electric MINI Cooper SE Was the Best Selling MINI Globally in 2023
The best selling MINI in 2023 was the ancient MINI Cooper SE making up 15.3% of global MINI sales for the full year. Looking further sales of electrified vehicles (incl. plug-in hybrids)...
Global MINI Sales up .9% for 2023 with Strong Electric Sales
The MINI brand saw growth in 2023 despite an entire model range that was in its last year on sale. In total the MINI brand sold a total of 295,474 vehicles (+0.9%)...