++ BMW Group: Significant +13.5% sales growth in fully-electric vehicles +++ With over 2.45 million units delivered, BMW Group meets adjust-ed sales target for 2024 +++ BMW brand increases sales in selected regions, gains market shares and maintains position as global segment leader +++ Jochen Goller: “BEV growth to continue in 2025” +++
In a highly volatile environment, the BMW Group remained on course in the first half of 2022. With flexibility and expertise, the company encountered challenges including continued supply chain disruptions and bottlenecks for semiconductors and specific supplier parts.
Fresh impetus for BMW sports cars in the luxury segment. New BMW 8 Series Coupé, new BMW 8 Series Convertible and new BMW 8 Series Gran Coupé with striking design modifications to the exterior and detailed interior design enhancements. Clear emphasis on performance characteristics, stylish appearance and exclusive character combined with optimised connectivity. New BMW 8 Series heralds continuation of the brand’s current model offensive in the luxury car ...
The BMW Group continued performing dynamically in the second quarter, setting new record figures for sales, earnings and net profit. Demand for the Group’s premium vehicles has remained strong, with continued good pricing.
BMW Team RLL has claimed a double podium at the Twelve Hours of Sebring (USA). After 333 eventful laps of racing, the #25 MOTUL BMW M8 GTE, driven by Connor De Phillippi (USA), Bruno Spengler (CAN) and Philipp Eng (AUT), crossed the line second in the GTLM class. John Edwards (USA), Jesse Krohn (FIN) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) completed the podium with third place in the #24 MOTUL BMW M8 GTE.
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One day after Maximilian Günther’s (GER) acclaimed victory at the Formula E season finale at Berlin-Tempelhof (GER), the BMW i Andretti Motorsport drivers failed to pick up points in the race on Sunday.
A heightened sense of outward authority, an interior brimming with detail refinements, the efficiency-enhancing influence of electrification and cutting-edge innovations in the areas of driver assistance, control/operation and connectivity help the new BMW 5 Series to cement its leading position at the premium end of the executive class.
The BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo is something of an individualist within the premium executive segment and meets the richly varied requirements of modern and extremely discerning customers. It combines the sporting ability for which BMW is renowned with outstanding comfort over long distances. An external appearance brimming with presence and elegance is supplemented by compelling functional versatility.
The privateer BMW racers from around the world will take each other on in a unique competition once again in 2019: The BMW Motorrad Race Trophy enters its sixth season. BMW Motorrad Motorsport will once again distribute a total of more than 100,000 euros in prize money among the best participants this year. The regulations have been revised in various areas, giving them a simpler structure.
The fifth season of the BMW Motorrad Race Trophy gets going this weekend. This year, BMW Motorrad Motorsport is distributing more than 100,000 Euro in total prize money for the top participants. There is also a host of additional prizes. The “Season Finale Race” is also planned as a new highlight to round off the season.
Moving into the final stages of the 2017 DTM season, the BMW teams are in action at the Red Bull Ring at Spielberg (AUT) this weekend. The BMW drivers will take part in rounds 15 and 16 of the season at the Austrian track. The circuit, with the picturesque alpine backdrop, is popular with the drivers. BMW has celebrated numerous great successes there in the past, including four wins since the BMW DTM comeback in 2012.
Marco Wittmann (GER) claimed pole position and a podium finish at the Nürburgring (GER) on Sunday – and closed the gap to the leading pack in the drivers’ championship. Thanks to his first pole position this season and the 15 points for third place in the race, the reigning DTM champion is in fourth place after 14 of 18 races.
The rain turned Saturday’s DTM race at the Nürburgring (GER) into a lottery – and the BMW teams just didn’t have luck on their side. After a strong performance in qualifying saw five BMW drivers in the top ten, a rain shower in the middle of the race put paid to their chances of winning or reaching the podium.
The 13th and 14th races of the 2017 DTM season will see BMW Motorsport competing at an historic venue. The BMW teams are heading into the final third of the season at the Nürburgring (GER). BMW shares a long and successful history with the famous circuit in the Eifel region. BMW teams have celebrated successes there in recent DTM history and there was a win for the BMW M4 DTM in every year since 2014.
BMW added to its points tally again in an action-packed twelfth DTM race of the season in Zandvoort (NED). Maxime Martin (BEL) and Timo Glock (GER) showed their fighting spirit by finishing sixth and seventh, despite being at the back of the field at the start of the race.
The BMW Motorrad Motorsport family can celebrate a victory in the FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC): team Völpker NRT48 Schubert-Motors by ERC took the Superstock class win in the 8-hour race at the Slovakia Ring near Bratislava (SVK).The BMW teams were supported on site by the BMW Motorrad Motorsport experts.
Russian motorsport fans were treated to a first in race 11 of the 2016 DTM season at the “Moscow Raceway” (RU): the eight BMW drivers and their competition contested a wet race for the first time this year.
This weekend, the “Moscow Raceway” on the outskirts of the Russian capital Moscow hosts the DTM for the fourth time.
Read here what BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt, the four team principals and the eight BMW DTM drivers had to say after the race weekend.
