{"id":145,"date":"2014-09-11T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themesuite.com\/automotive-wp\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-09-11T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:11:35","slug":"bmw-extends-global-sales-lead-over-audi-mercedes-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"BMW extends global sales lead over Audi, Mercedes in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img-2\"Global sales of BMW Group’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

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

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

“BMW has stronger momentum than Audi and Mercedes, that won’t change in the second half,” said Hanover-based NordLB analyst Frank Schwope. “Design of their cars has improved and they’re ahead on fuel-saving technologies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"img-2\"Global sales of BMW Group’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

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

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

“BMW has stronger momentum than Audi and Mercedes, that won’t change in the second half,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[8,9,15],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automakers","category-production","category-sales","tag-audi","tag-bmw","tag-global-sales"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtechgroup.com\/auto1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}