October ended sufficiently long ago for the sales numbers to be available for this month that passed. In short, things really look good for BMW..

If it’s detail that worries you, it shouldn’t be a major concern since things look pretty good when under the microscope as well.

Unsurprisingly, it’s once again the Asian market that really put the Bavarians over the top in terms of units shifted in October.

Since the Japanese car makers are facing a bit of a crisis in China, German car makers, our favorite included, got a bit of an unexpected boost.

2012’s October saw BMW sell 157.618 units overall, which, by comparison to last year’s 139.284 units means the increase was 13.2 percent.

When doing the sums for the entire year, the growth so far is 8.8%. Not only is that nothing to snuff at, it makes for a brand new record overall.

The first 10 months of 2012 saw BMW manage to sell a total of 1.493.153 units which is somewhat nearer to the round figure of 1.5 million.

Certainly happens when compared to last year’s 1.371.903 units. Ian Robertson, Member of BMW’s Board of Management was the first to talk about the result.

There’s a natural moment of joy with the results and particularly the growth, but he didn’t want to say things are easy.

Yes, China, and Asia in general, offered a good source of sales, but so did the Americas whereas Europe is still considerably lagging behind its brethren continents.

Ah well, I suppose we can’t all be doing as well as BMW.

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It seems like the initial concerns over the finances of our favorite Bavarian company have been greatly exaggerated when rumors and reports came in about R&D costs of the F30 BMW 3 Series.

On the other hand, the news about the BMW X3 chipping into some great sales figures over the third quarter only paved the way for the financial results BMW achieved last month.

The tenth month of 2011 actually turned out as the best ever October in not only the company’s history in terms of sales, but of the entire BMW Group.

The BMW Group managed to sell a total of 139.276 vehicles worldwide last month, which signifies an increase of 8.3 percent over what they’ve managed last year.

Naturally, most of the weight comes from the BMW brand itself as its sales volumes went up by a tasty 12.4% with 107.789.

Some of the success also comes from the British subsidiary at Mini, they’ve managed to shift 23.839 units, a bump of 16.2 percent over last year.

This was mostly achieved thanks to the increased success of the Mini Countryman crossover. And then there’s the incredibly low figures of Rolls Royce.

The legendary luxury manufacturer managed to make 279 deliveries, which sounds almost pitiful but it makes up for an incredible 298.6% increase over 2010. In this case, it’s obviously that the increase fell on the shoulders of the Ghost.

Finally, a less than important percentage increase (1.7%) but a decent chunk of units sold for the BMW Group saw them deliver 6.845 motorcycles in October.

With the new posted figures for October, the remaining two months of the year seem to be going according to plan for BMW and the BMW Group, which means that it seems like there’s close to no chance that Audi or Mercedes ends up catching up in terms of sales.

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