How many times have we been over this? BMW is a Bavarian company, that means it’s located in Europe, particularly in Germany.

While the country’s economy seems to be going fine and dandy, the rest of the continent has less rosy bank statements.

That’s had an effect on the kind of sales just about every car maker in the world has had in Europe. BMW was no exception to this situation.

Happily though, the company’s sales in Asia and the United States more than made up for the drop on the old continent.

Therefore, the BMW Group delivered 156.957 vehicles in May. That means they’ve registered a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percent last month.

Adding those numbers in means that over the first five months of 2012 BMW, Mini and Rolls Royce delivered a total of 728.029 automobiles.

The overall bump is 9.1 percent, if that isn’t impressive enough, how does a bump of 60.000 units sound?

Ian Robertson, Member of the Board of Management, Sales and Marketing BMW went on to state what we know for being the obvious.

This was a record for BMW’s history in May and that the company is looking forward to a similar situation this month.

The highlights of the BMW product lineup in June are going to be the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe and the revised F01 BMW 7 Series luxury sedan.

Since we spoke of the Asian influence in these results, that’s where BMW’s Group sold 41.289 units in May. The US was accounted with buying some 35.127 vehicles as well.

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BMW have officially launched the “The BMW Experience”, a special institution that will remind people why they are the best selling luxury company.

Access to such a treat as BMW offer in Munich is hard to find but you can get a totally different experience if you live in America that’s not in any way less interesting.

BMW are showing off their cars, their factory and pretty much every asset they have in Spartanburg County through special tours that can be taken individually or as a group where you get to experience “The Ultimate Driving Machine” in all of its aspects.

You can take a tour of the factory with a personal concierge, you can feast your eyes on the goodies within The BMW Performance Center and The BMW Zentrum while you’re at it. But if you feel that you have more of a get up and go attitude than there is a package that may interest you as well.

All the visits plus a 2-hour driving program which will put you through your paces towards becoming a person that can make proper use of a BMW. Future plans for this treat of an experience include adding to the offer of custom driving excursions, rare vehicle demonstrations and unique culinary events.

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Since the new BMW 5 Series has been grabbing headlines left and right it’s about time BMW made it easy for you to buy your own.

In case you are planning on making that move, BMW’s USA site now features a car configurator specifically purposed in letting you get yourself the 550i or the 535i you want and the toys you deem necessary on either of them.

In case you’re wondering why BMW would only let you spec up the 550i and 535i it’s because these are the only models available in America at the moment so it would be foolish to let you configurate any others.

As a reminder, underneath the trim levels, optional extras and so on you still get two massive debates to yourself.

Do you need the 4.4L twin-turbo V8 giving you 400 horsepower the 550i has to offer or will you settle for the 3.0L twin-scroll turbocharged inline six engine that produces 300 horsepower. There is a bit of a price gap between the two but to be honest both are great picks.

Another area where you might be unsure is this; Do you want the typical sedan or are you going to go for the GT version?

Difficult decisions, good thing the online configurator is now available, right?

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