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June 2006. This two-seater sports car has been
devised as a car with particularly dynamic driving
qualities and its design exudes both elegance and
agility.
Proportion of cars with diesel engines
continues to rise
The proportion of diesel-powered BMW cars is
steadily increasing: 39% of BMW cars sold world-
wide in 2005 were equipped with a diesel engine.
The percentages for 2004 and 2003 were 34% and
29% respectively. In many European markets, the
number of diesel cars sold well exceeds the number
of petrol cars sold: the proportion of BMW cars sold
with diesel engines in Germany, Spain, and France
was 57%, 79%, and 86% respectively. The figure
for Italy was as much as 88%.
Particle filters have been available for all BMW
diesel models since autumn 2005 and many older
diesel vehicles can be equipped retrospectively with
a filter.
More than 200,000 MINI sold
200,428 MINI cars were delivered to customers in
2005, 8.7% more than in the previous year. The
annual sales volume of the MINI brand therefore
exceeded 200,000 units for the first time. Since
market launch in 2001, more than 730,000 MINI
cars have been delivered to customers.
The MINI brand product mix (including the
MINI Convertible) increased in value again com-
pared to the previous year. Altogether, the MINI
and MINI Convertible are available in four engine
sizes. The MINI Cooper was the best-selling MINI
model, with 89,079 units sold (44.4% of the total
sales volume), followed by the model with the
most powerful engine, the MINI Cooper S, of which
56,916 units were sold (28.4% of the total sales
volume) in 2005. In addition, 38,605 units (19.3%
of the total sales volume) of the starter model,
the MINI One, and 15,828 (7.9% of the total sales
volume) of the diesel version, the MINI One D,
were sold.
The MINI Convertible, introduced on the markets
in mid-2004, achieved a sales volume of 45,121 units
in its first full year on the markets. The highest de-
mand was for the MINI Cooper Convertible, with
sales of 21,928 units in 2005. The sales volume of
the MINI Cooper S Convertible and of the MINI One
Convertible reached 16,106 units and 7,087 units
respectively.
In 2005, the BMW Group presented a MINI
Design Study at each of the motor shows in Frank-
furt/Main and Tokyo; the third study in this series
was presented at the Detroit Motor Show in January
2006 as the MINI Concept Detroit. This imaginative
concept, with its more spacious interior and addi-
tional functionality, is the prototype for a new MINI
BMW brand cars in 2005 – analysis by series
as a percentage of total BMW brand sales volume
1 Series
3 Series
5 Series
6 Series
7 Series
X3
X5
Z4
20.338.5
2.6 9.0
9.82.1
4.4
13.3
Deliveries of BMW diesel automobiles
in 1,000 units
550
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
01
216.8
02
245.9
03
273.7
04
352.5
05
438.3