{"id":146,"date":"2017-09-11T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themesuite.com\/automotive-wp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2017-09-11T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:11:35","slug":"bmw-extends-global-sales-lead-over-audi-mercedes-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/bmw-extends-global-sales-lead-over-audi-mercedes-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW extends global sales lead over Audi, Mercedes in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.themesuite.com\/automotive-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img-21.jpg\" alt=\"img-2\" width=\"481\" height=\"400\" \/>Global sales of BMW Group&#8217;s core brand rose faster in June than at Audi and Mercedes-Benz as demand from China and the United States helped the premium carmaker to extend a lead over the two rivals in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Sales at the brand were up 9 percent last month to 153,075, the group said today, compared with growth of 5 percent to 140,300 and 8 percent to 131,609 at Audi and Mercedes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Six-month sales at BMW brand rose 8 percent to 804,000 cars, expanding the lead over runner-up Audi to 24,000 from 11,000 after five months. Half-year sales at Audi and Mercedes rose 6 percent each to 780,500 and 694,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abBMW has stronger momentum than Audi and Mercedes, that won&#8217;t change in the second half,\u00bb said Hanover-based NordLB analyst Frank Schwope. \u00abDesign of their cars has improved and they&#8217;re ahead on fuel-saving technologies.\u00bb<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-926\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.themesuite.com\/automotive-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/img-21.jpg\" alt=\"img-2\" width=\"481\" height=\"400\" \/>Global sales of BMW Group&#8217;s core brand rose faster in June than at Audi and Mercedes-Benz as demand from China and the United States helped the premium carmaker to extend a lead over the two rivals in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Sales at the brand were up 9 percent last month to 153,075, the group said today, compared with growth of 5 percent to 140,300 and 8 percent to 131,609 at Audi and Mercedes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Six-month sales at BMW brand rose 8 percent to 804,000 cars, expanding the lead over runner-up Audi to 24,000 from 11,000 after five months. Half-year sales at Audi and Mercedes rose 6 percent each to 780,500 and 694,000 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abBMW has stronger momentum than Audi and Mercedes, that won&#8217;t change in the second half,\u00bb said Hanover-based NordLB analyst Frank Schwope. \u00abDesign of their cars has improved and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[10,11,12],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automakers","category-production","category-sales","tag-audi","tag-bmw","tag-global-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitallmotors.com\/es_mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}