BMW has come up with its total sales for 2012, which made it a clean chit winner in Indian luxury auto market, following the sales figures revealed by Audi India. The former reported sales of 9,375 units for the last calendar year, marking an increase by 372 units over 9,003 units sold by Audi India during 2012. Interestingly, BMW also registered a marginal increase by just 4 units in 2011 and was crowned as country’s number one luxury car maker at that time.
It must be noted that Audi India also came up with a positive growth in 2012 with an increase of 63 per cent. However, the sales figures of India’s third largest luxury car maker, Mercedes-Benz remained too far from the figures of its two indigenous car makers at 7,138 units. Mercedes-Benz is believed to be the first position holder since the inception of Indian luxury car market, until it was laddered down by BMW in 2009.
Besides declaring its sales figures, BMW India revealed future plans for 2013. In order to continue its chapter of success in the country, the auto maker is looking ahead to introduce the new models of 7 Series, 1 Series and X1 in the current calendar year. Till the end of 2012, the Chennai manufacturing plant of BMW was witnessing the production of BMW 3 Series, 5 Series and X1 in both petrol and diesel versions, which will now also roll out two additional models, 1 Series and 7 Series.
With these future plans, BMW seems all set to retain the numero uno position in 2013 as well. As per sources, the auto maker also has few further aggressive plans for the market, which are anticipated to frame a tough time for its indigenous auto makers.
