March 4, 2008:

703 Clubmans

Sales figures for February 2008 say 703 MINI Clubman models have been sold already!

Although the February total of 3,415 cars is not a particularly great month … see the MINI sales figures page for details.

Posted by GBMINI at 08:17 am | Uncategorized
Comments: 6 (post new comment)

  1. lavardera (2008/03/04 @ 11:15 am)

    Not a particularly great month? I’m looking at your chart and its higher than 75-80% of the months on the chart. What would make it particularly great?

  2. GBMINI (2008/03/04 @ 12:04 pm)

    Look at most of last year - since the R56 was introduced, with more efficient manufacture, sales have often exceeded 4000.
    Many of the 700 Clubmans sold would have been special, pre-delivery cars - so I’d have expected that number basically on top of a normal month, for a total of 4,000-4,500!
    Maybe people were waiting to see the Clubman before ordering either an R56 or R55 … in which case we should see the number increase again in April onwards.

  3. rkw (2008/03/04 @ 3:45 pm)

    But to put this in perspective, MINI was nevertheless one of the few bright spots for BMW: http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2076498#post2076498

  4. lavardera (2008/03/08 @ 4:03 pm)

    But Ian, your assumption is that Clubman sales would not replace any coupe sales. Do you really believe that?

  5. Ian C. (2008/03/08 @ 6:12 pm)

    For the first month, yes

  6. lavardera (2008/03/09 @ 2:55 pm)

    How would the first month be different than subsequent months?

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