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BMW deliveries fall as China sales drop nearly a quarter
BMW delivered 551,072 vehicles in the third quarter, down 6.3% from a year earlier.
The main pressure came from China, where BMW sold nearly a quarter fewer cars than in the same period last year.
Across the first nine months, BMW deliveries fell 4.9% to about 1.7 million cars and motorcycles.
China's car market has shrunk by more than a fifth this year as electric-car subsidies ended, the economy weakened and fuel prices rose.
German carmakers have been hit particularly hard because they mainly offer combustion-engine vehicles in China, a segment that has fallen sharply.
Even so, BMW performed better than Mercedes and Volkswagen over the first nine months: their deliveries fell 7% and 9%, respectively.
BMW's new electric iX3 is due to reach China in November, as the company seeks to turn around its performance there.
BMW deliveries fell 6.3 percent in the third quarter to 551,072 vehicles, with weak sales in China weighing on results.
BMW sold nearly a quarter fewer cars in China than in the same period a year earlier.
Deliveries of BMW cars and motorcycles fell 4.9 percent to about 1.7 million from the start of the year.
The Chinese car market has shrunk by more than a fifth since the start of the year, according to Handelsblatt.
The article cites ending electric-car subsidies, a weak economy and rising fuel prices among the causes of the Chinese market’s decline.
- Who
- BMW.
- What
- Its third-quarter deliveries fell 6.3 percent to 551,072 vehicles. Sales in China were nearly a quarter lower than a year earlier.
- When
- The third quarter of 2026; the article was published on October 13, 2026.
- Where
- China and BMW’s global markets.
- Why
- Weak business in China weighed on sales. The article cites ending electric-car subsidies, a weak economy and rising fuel prices as factors behind the Chinese market’s decline.
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BMW deliveries of cars and motorcycles fell 4.9 percent to about 1.7 million.
BMW deliveries fell 6.3 percent to 551,072 vehicles, including a nearly 25 percent drop in China.
- Third-quarter deliveries
- 551,072 vehicles
- Third-quarter change
- Down 6.3 percent
- China sales
- Nearly 25 percent lower than in the same period a year earlier
- Deliveries since start of year
- About 1.7 million cars and motorcycles, down 4.9 percent
- Chinese car market
- Down more than a fifth since the start of the year
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