By Leftlane Staff
Friday, Sep 1st, 2006 @ 2:31 pm

The BMW Group in the U.S. (BMW and MINI brands combined) reported a decrease of 11 percent in August sales for 25,673 vehicles over the 28,879 vehicles reported in 2005. Sales of BMW brand vehicles dropped 12 percent in August for a total of 22,421 compared to 25,537 reported in the same month a year ago. MINI USA reported August sales of 3,252 automobiles, down 11 percent from the 3,342 cars sold in August 2005. BMW’s sales were hurt mostly by weak demand for SUVs, down 35 percent in August to
5,368 vehicles over the 8,283 sold last August. [data sheet]

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