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      01-12-2014, 02:45 PM   #1895
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It would be interesting to see sales volume by year. For example, the entire economy melted down in Q4 2008 and car sales in the US, in 2009, fell off a cliff, especially expensive car sales. 2010 was not much better. Maybe in 2009 BMW only sold a fraction of the cars they sold in 2008 and 2011.

Does anyone know if this data is available?

Pat
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Originally Posted by Jesal@IND View Post
According to this (I had to interpret - for example it says 2280 E90s were built in 2008 which was 38.9% of total US production), the total US/CAN production from 2008-2011 was:

2008: 5860 vehicles
2009: 5878 vehicles
2010: 5883 vehicles
2011: 5865 vehicles

If this is true, it suggests the production of US M3s wasn't affected by the economic crisis. I find that hard to believe but that's what this data says.

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