Chevy copying BMW??

[terrapen73]

Originally Posted by KingOfJericho

I'm not sure where you got those number but BMW sold 11,000 1ers in 2009, 13,000 in 2010, and less than 9,000 in 2011 in the US. That's roughly 1/10th the number of 3ers sold.

http://www.cheersandgears.com/topic/...-bmw-group-na/

I bet Pangloss was referring to the numbers sold worldwide. If I remember right, they recently announced over 1 million 1 series sold since the start of production. That works out to over 100k a year for at least a couple of years worldwide.

[pdr1269]

It's still a Chevrolet and Ugly.......Junk!

[KingOfJericho]

Originally Posted by terrapen73

I bet Pangloss was referring to the numbers sold worldwide. If I remember right, they recently announced over 1 million 1 series sold since the start of production. That works out to over 100k a year for at least a couple of years worldwide.

Worldwide sales do not affect resale values in the US. The car has been on sale for 4 years here but nearly 7 in other countries. There are maybe a little over 30,000 1ers on the ground in the US which makes it a low volume car. Hell, in that time there were something like 350-400,000 3 series imported by comparison.

[AW128i]

Yeah, last I checked, BMW has sold less 1-series than MINIs, and there aren't exactly a lot of MINIs on the road.

[imstupidsorry101]

lol thats so ugly smh american auto makers r so stupid , and its sad they call it a 130r trying to compare itself to a 1 series and the size etc....

being off topic its like the camaro the outside looks sexy and i love it but then the inside looks like the saddest thing in the world.......chevy has a few good things but their coupe game disappoints me ....

[Pangloss]

Originally Posted by KingOfJericho

Worldwide sales do not affect resale values in the US. The car has been on sale for 4 years here but nearly 7 in other countries. There are maybe a little over 30,000 1ers on the ground in the US which makes it a low volume car. Hell, in that time there were something like 350-400,000 3 series imported by comparison.

Yes, I was talking about worldwide, but you have a point there.

[J_Waffles]

I'm convinced that this is what a camaro's poop looks like...

[Pangloss]

Originally Posted by terrapen73

I bet Pangloss was referring to the numbers sold worldwide. If I remember right, they recently announced over 1 million 1 series sold since the start of production. That works out to over 100k a year for at least a couple of years worldwide.

Just to update this a bit, I noticed in passing today that the Wikipedia article on the 1 series cites BMW annual reports showing over 433,000 1ers sold in 2009. It's the Wikipedia and the annual report isn't linked so I don't know how seriously we can take that data, but it's a pretty detailed chart; hard to see why someone might make that data up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_1_S...81)#Production

The article also states (with source) that the 1er is BMW's second most popular vehicle, comprising ~20% of total sales. (Just not, apparently, in the US.)

[Somebuddy]

That a$$end is butt ugly!! But then again so is the front end!!