Not that I’m the sort of guy who can’t be humble but boy did BMW stick it to the economy last month. Even in China where things are a melting pot, the Bavarians sold a lot of cars.

China is an enormous market anyway but for last month BMW got a hike of 59%. Quiet is rolling in at Audi and Mercedes as their statistics folks are coming up with results.

A total of 29.631 units of BMW and Mini-branded vehicles were bought by the Chinese and so far we’re yet to hear anything about complaints.

Having rounded up September, the figures are also available for the first nine months of 2012 and they speak of a 37 percent year-on-year increase so far.

At the most important part of these sales is the strong demand they’ve been getting for the extended version of the F30 3 Series and the X1 crossover.

According to the analysts, the economic results of the country aren’t all so positive. Just about everybody in China is going up.

Nobody is hitting the same levels as BMW and there’s a good chance that not even the Bavarians will be able to keep things up for longer.

The immense economic growth that used to have us all looking at China is slowing down. The finance crowd is saying that the results are headed for a normalization.

In other words, nobody, regardless of their market, will be breaking any more records. The acceleration of the train has stopped, from now on, it will be cruising.

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Another month, another opportunity to look into how well our favorite brand is doing. The news are looking quite good at the end of April.

BMW’s books have managed to score yet another new record. The figures come in at 145.505 vehicles sold for the first time ever by the company.

I should probably make it clear that those are the sales for the BMW Group, not just the infamous roundel brand. This stuff includes Mini and Rolls Royce.

The boost of the BMW Group’s April month is translated in a boost of 6.1 percent compared to the same month of 2011. Widening the search to the first four months of 2012, things look even more impressive.

A total of 571.040 units were sold, making for a 9.8 percent boost over last year when 519.958 units had been sold. This is yet another record for BMW.

We don’t know how many units Rolls Royce managed to sell, but Mini managed some 3.772 units, a boost of 1 percent on top of the previous year’s April figure.

At this point it’s obvious that the largest amount of sales come from the BMW brand itself. No clues are awarded for the locations that attracted the biggest growth spur.

Once again its Asia, particularly the Chinese region, which grew by 30.8% compared to last year’s April. The entire region will have grown by 25.1%.

In terms of model options, the largest growth is attributable to the F20 1 Series and the F30 3 Series at 68.3%, respectively 30.8% on top of 2011’s April.

Did I mention that these results are the ones that keep BMW at the top of the sales pile in the luxury car market.

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