BMW 2011 -BMW extends US luxury car lead
BMW 2011 -BMW extends US luxury car lead Bayerische Motoren Werke AG's BMW brand outsold Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz last month, expanding its lead as the top-selling luxury auto brand in the US so far this year. BMW's US sales, helped by deliveries of the new five Series sedan and sport-utility vehicles, rose 13 per cent last month to 21,637 compared with a year earlier, the Munich-based carmaker said last week in a statement. Mercedes sales rose 13 per cent to 20,652 in June while deliveries by Toyota's Lexus fell 38 per cent to 10,773, as the Japanese make lacked inventory following the March 11 earthquake that disrupted manufacturing. After six months of sales, BMW looks poised to outsell Lexus in the US for a calendar year for the first time since 1997. BMW's sales through June rose 13 per cent to 113,705. Deliveries of Stuttgart, Germany-based Mercedes vehicles rose seven per cent to 110,926 in the US while Lexus's fell 18 per cent to 88,010. Lexu...