Comments on: 703 Clubmans

By: lavardera

lavardera — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:55:17 +0000

How would the first month be different than subsequent months?

By: Ian C.

Ian C. — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:12:46 +0000

For the first month, yes

By: lavardera

lavardera — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:03:28 +0000

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

By: rkw

rkw — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:45:53 +0000

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

By: GBMINI

GBMINI — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:04:29 +0000

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.

By: lavardera

lavardera — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:15:37 +0000

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?