MAY saw BMW post its fifth consecutive month of growth, supplying 15,004 motorcycles and maxi scooters, up by +6.5 percent over the 14,088 units sold in May 2014.
Heiner Faust, Head of Sales and Marketing for BMW Motorrad, said: "The strongest growth is coming from Europe and Asia. In Germany alone sales increased by more than 1,000 vehicles as compared to the previous year, and we are seeing especially strong growth in China - nearly 100% up (over 1,100 units) compared to the previous year. We believe the future prospects for us in the Chinese market are very promising".
The new BMW sports tourer, the R 1200 RS, became available in the middle of May and the company points to this and the new adventure sports model, the S 1000 XR, becoming available in mid June, as good indicators for continued growth in the second half of the year.
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"We continue to see strong demand for our new models. The launch of the R 1200 RS went very well, our world travel enduro bike, the R 1200 GS Adventure, now in its second year, is selling well above 2014 and we sold almost 1,000 units of our new Supersports bike, the S 1000 RR, in May alone".
