BMW continues to lead Audi ~ car loan

 
- High demand for consumer models BMW X1 has helped Audi continues to lead in the global luxury segment in May last.
 
In the past few years, the race in the luxury car segment seems only to BMW and Audi. Although Audi has a lot of efforts, but still could not beat out BMW No. 1 segment.


Earlier this week, BMW announced sales for the month 5/2013. According to BMW, the company's motorcycle sales increased 7.8%, reaching 139 161 units. Sales of BMW has surpassed 137,200 vehicles sold by fellow Audi rivals. The body of the Audi sales in May rose 6.4%.
 Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz continues ranked in third place with 121 360 vehicles sold in May last. Thus, compared with the same period last year, Mercedes-Benz vehicle to customers increased by 7.3%.

Before that, Audi has surpassed BMW in global sales in January and 4/2013. The strong growth of BMW in part derived from the X1 small car sales up 29%. Series 3-Series also contributed significantly to the success of the BMW with sales up 28%.

According to Bloomberg, the first 5 months of 2013, BMW has sold a total of 651 168 vehicles worldwide, more than 11,000 units compared to Audi. Mercedes-Benz BMW were by far the lower sales to 88,000 vehicles.

No sleeping on the win, BMW has plans to continue to maintain the number one position in the luxury car segment. "Sales of our continued strong growth again reaching all-time highs in the last month," said Ian Robertson, director of sales and marketing of BMW, said. "We expects continued success in the future. "

Both Audi and Mercedes-Benz have vowed to pass the BMW luxury car company became the world number one before the end of the decade. However, a plan view of the two automakers will be very difficult to complete.