BMW are doing a lot of stuff to increase sales these days and it’s natural. For a couple of years now, Audi have been breathing down their necks.

Now that Mercedes, Lexus and Cadillac have turned the action up, the Bavarians have a lot of work to do in order to stay at the front.

The newest gimmick they may be trying and plan to work out soon is online selling. We’re used to this stuff now, why not buy a car?

It sounds a little ambitious but let’s think about it. We can take test drives online.

We can get everything else online, we love having stuff delivered and boy do we love not seeing the annoying face of a dealer.

Actually, we can buy second hand cars online, that’s certainly a much greater risk than anything the automotive industry could throw at you.

BMW plans to make a trial run for online sales of the car with the brand new i Range. These models do have something that’s more new age about them anyway.

None of the details were worked out but the idea seems pretty simple. BMW’s car configurator will be extended to include an actual ordering process at the end.

Beyond that, dealers will pick up the website’s orders and then deliver the cars to the buyer’s home and there’s a huge benefit in the equation.

According to BMW, if the project works out by the end some 5-7% off the original cost of the car. With a high expense purchase like that, there’s a lot of savinsg to be considered.

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BMW’s i range green range of cars seem to be more and more talked about these days. The newest bit is focused around the i8 supercar.

According to a couple of reports, BMW already has a price set in mind for the i8 when it comes to the market in less than two years.

This price isn’t a few million as most estimates would call it but a rather modest for a supercar or for something that is partially electric.

Ian Robertson, BMW’s global sales chief reckons the i8 could hit the market at as little as 100.000 euro which is roughly 125.000 USD.

Further more, the BMW i3 would also be priced well since Robertson claims it will be “very competitive” given the technology it’s offered with.

The small hatchback is said to be somewhere around 30.000 on the road so it would technically compete with some of the regular high end hatchbacks.

That seems like a more than fair price which is serious surprise for BMW who seem to be overcharging their consumers lately.

There was even some talk about the way these cars would reach the customers. Dealerships selling BMW’s i range isn’t going to be limited to the newly introduced stores.

The ratio of dealerships out of the grand total in Germany is 45 out of 200. The rest of the world will be getting one that’s less than this “near 1/4” of the Vaterland.

Either way, it all seems like more than plenty. We’re almost certain green folks will find a way to get one and are thrilled to find out the new prices.

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BMW haven’t managed to overtake Lexus as top seller in the United States over the past ten decade despite a great product lineup.

This year however, Lexus have suffered quite a bit due to the company recalls.

Despite these “good” news analysts still believe that Lexus will still come in first and BMW will still be trailing even closer behind. What is most likely to be the thing keeping BMW from taking the sales crown in the American states is the wind down of the old 5 series since, in preparation for the June launch of the new model the dealers have … almost run out of cars to sell.

BMW AG global sales chief Ian Robertson stated that the 5 Series amounts to around 25 percent of BMW sales in the states and this issue will be a slight problem but with the launch of the new one it should be covered and he expects sales to register a few digit points of growth which are most likely to keep overall sales at a level pace.

So BMW are doing quite well while Lexus will have to wait for the simple results of the recall issues with the Lexus GX that took a bit off the boost sales Lexus required.

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