“The MINI continues to be extremely popular in all markets”.

BMW Group (Worldwide) has already passed last years total sales figures, this has been helped by the ever popular, and much loved MINI.

The MINI continues to be extremely popular in all markets. In the period up to and including November 2005, sales increased further by 10.3% to 190,401 units (previous year: 172,581). In November 2005, the number of deliveries rose by 3.7% to 15,171(previous year: 14,635) MINI One, MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S vehicles.

With 42,595 MINI convertibles sold in the first eleven months of 2005, almost a quarter of all customers (22.4%) went for the “topless version”. The product mix remains of the highest quality: 52,119 or 27.4% of customers decided in favor of the basic variant, MINI One, but by far the most buyers chose the MINI Cooper (84,538/44.4%) and the top-of-the-range MINI Cooper S was chosen by 53,744 customers (28.2%).